Have you ever been lost? You’re driving on unfamiliar roads, you’re phone is dead, and it’s past midnight… you don’t know where you are. Or, when you were a child at the mall, one moment your mom was there, but after a few minutes of playing, you look up and…
“So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi? And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath…
In the meantime … Jesus was traveling to Jerusalem. In the midst of His journey—as He came through a village on the way, He heard a group of lepers crying out to Him from a distance. Why not?! What did they have to lose? Perhaps they saw this as a…
“It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:22-23 “Great is Thy faithfulness!” “Great is Thy faithfulness!” Morning by morning new…
Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. Philippians 1:6, NIV. Our lives are comprised of moments and experiences. If I cataloged your life through puzzle pieces, what would some of those portions…
“I don’t have nobody to blame but myself.” “Double negatives” are so confusing! There are also points in Scripture that are sometimes hard to grasp—that seem almost too good to be true. For example, some people think that the mercy of the Lord is applied only at the point of…
“The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.” Psalm 23:1 As we finish our week of looking at some lessons we learn from the Psalms that David wrote, we cannot forget the one that most of us know and love. It is the one we turn to when we are…
As my husband and I were traveling on the highway one day, over in the open field near the road, three crosses were prominently displayed. It was a reminder of the three crosses displayed on Golgotha’s hill many years ago. As we passed by, and I thought of Jesus and…
And as he reclined at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why…