A few months ago the Lord gave us this new rule in our house. Since then Jerry and I have looked at every situation from a different perspective. The Glad Rule keeps us looking up, toward the Lord our God in all circumstances. Instead of dwelling on the difficulties,...
https://youtu.be/mIVE1BwfgLc Habakkuk 3:17-18 is one of Scripture Tunes recorded years ago. Recently I added second voice and made the video as part of a project based on the Book of Habakkuk, which will include sermons, and other comments on how God works during...
Jerry came wheeling into the kitchen last night, asking if I was still cleaning. “Sure,” I said, knowing that he was aware of my nightly schedule after dinner. Since his amputation eight years ago, he feels badly that most of the work falls on me. Last night was no...
God’s grace and God’s glory were uppermost in my mind and heart when I started this blog. Yet, the ability to write about this realm was difficult to grasp. Four years later these are still not simple things to write about but they are worthy to be expressed as best...
How often have you as an adult wanted to cry aloud, but could not? Either you were too reserved, too prideful, or not desperate enough. At a certain time in our lives we pass the stage of childhood and forget what it was like to cry. We don’t know how to cry, nor to...
To benefit by all that Andrew Murray wrote on this subject we must each read this for ourselves. What I am attempting to do with this review of chapter 8 of Humility (PDF) is to combine this with Romans 5:12-21 after the preaching of our pastor’s August 31 sermon....
(Warning: This is an OUCH, and an encouragement.) As an older woman who has over the years taught and mentored younger women, I want to share some of what I have learned from this experience. Only three of those I mentored were single, but all had an original desire...
"And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto a people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees; of fat things full of marrow, of wines in the lees well refined." Isaiah 25:6. A feast bespeaks of plenty, harmony, and joy. Many feasts were...
"THIS IS THE DAY WHICH THE LORD HAS MADE: WE WILL REJOICE AND BE GLAD IN IT." Psalm 118:24 My brother died last Lord's Day, shortly before midnight. Our heavenly Father had done much in the last six months to bring him to this final moment. We, as the family, had...