It is interesting that as we get older we sometimes return to the simpler things with which we began. When I first started teaching there were three things I looked for in the text I was studying: Identification (who are the characters in the text?) Implication (what...
Alleluia! Revelation 10:1 Thou didst begin the year, O my soul, with a Hosanna, imploring the Lord’s blessing; canst thou now conclude it with an Alleluia? Surely thou canst celebrate the praise of a gracious and loving God. Take a review of the year past; hast...
Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart. 2 Corinthians 3:3. The image is beautiful and instructing;...
For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? Is it not in that thou goest with us? So shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth. Exodus 33:16. Reader, do you adopt the...
Give an account of thy stewardship. Luke 16:2. O Lord, how have I wasted my time, goods, and faculties. O pardon me for thine infinite mercy’s sake; blot out my debt by thy blood; and grant that henceforth, keeping a daily good account, and acting more prudently,...
The words I speak most often: "FATHER, HELP ME!" ~ Isaiah 41:10 "FORGIVE ME, LORD." ~ Matthew 6:12 "THANK YOU, LORD!" ~ Psalm 100:4 ~ because He promises to hear and answer; to be with me; and show me His way. "Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD...
Olivia's Thanksgiving Greeting ~ 2007 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Last week as William was bagging our groceries he asked, "Are you getting ready for Thanksgiving Day?" When I answered, "Everyday is thanksgiving day!" he said, "I wish...." Not hearing what he had wished, I asked...
Jesus warns us that there will be a separation of the sheep from the goats. "And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats." Matthew 25:32 Where did parents get the idea of...
TODAY is a portion of my inheritance~a small part of what God, my Father, has promised through His Son for eternity. How I spend it proves where it came from. It is an allowance given to sustain me here in this wilderness; and while here on this earth to prepare me...