Easter / Resurrection Sunday is the time when we celebrate the fact that Jesus didn’t stay dead. This is worthy of celebration because His resurrection is the whole reason that we can walk in newness of life! Yes, His death paid the price for our sin, and that is vitally important, because without that sacrifice …
I’m in the middle of a series on praise and worship, and yet I’m waiting for the Holy Spirit’s permission for the next lesson. In the meantime, the Lord just enlightened me to something that I have been asking Him about for years, and I’m eager to share it! First, let’s pray. Holy Spirit, I ask …
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I feel like I blog a lot about grace. I don’t think that’s a problem, though. God’s grace is His power working in our lives. Empowerment. His grace is why it is possible to experience His strength when we are totally and completely weak and powerless. It’s what makes it possible to experience His joy …
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Yesterday’s few verses in Proverbs included this, which I want to share: Righteousness guards the one whose way is blameless – Proverbs 13:6 I read that, which is similar to a few other Proverbs I’ve read recently, and this time I asked the Spirit how this was so. How it worked. He immediately reminded me …
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Last Thursday ended with my husband in ICU. All of a sudden. At 7:30 pm he was fine, and by 9:00 he was in the ER with machines carefully measuring his malfunctioning heart, working to bring it back into order to avoid a stroke. By Friday afternoon, he was released… his heart once again beating …
The first half of this month was rough… full of things that resulted in lots of emotional turmoil. Emotions are tricky things, aren’t they? They are a powerful part of how God created us, and without them, we would lose much of the richness in life. But they are also quick to tell us when …
Guilt. Failure. Weariness. All these are reasons why we sometimes don’t go to God. Or maybe we do go to God but we do so without expecting much. Or we start our prayers with lists of what we need forgiveness for. We feel unworthy. Or rather, we know we are unworthy…and we’re just not sure …
God is so good. /// I woke up to an automated phone call that Col. Crawford schools (and their busses) were on a 2-hour delay. It added to the already-overwhelmed feeling I’ve been fighting this week. For those that don’t know… my kids ride the Col. Crawford bus to the local school, then board Col. …
I just have a little bit of God’s goodness to share this morning. My oldest two kids are going to a technology school, and today is an eagerly awaited field trip to a robotics competition for my son. He’s been talking about it for days, but at 6:15 this morning, he came upstairs, presented himself …
[Bible study on Romans – post 7] I think the Lord is telling me that it’s time to resume my study of Romans. I’m not sure exactly how and when it slipped my mind. But these last few weeks, the subjects of justification and sanctification keep returning to my spirit. If you want to see what …
