I am one of those people who love to read, and one of the things I really enjoy reading is Scripture. I personally think God created me to be a nerd who loves words because He meant for me to turn around and use them for His glory. I pray with all my heart that […]
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Exodus 11, Luke 14: His Ways Looks Different In Exodus 11, God gives Joshua the plan to defeat the city of Jericho. It was a very unusual battle plan, and I often wonder what Joshua thought when he heard it. The Lord told him that the Israelites were to walk around the city once each
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My daughter and I were talking recently about a swimming experience she had at a church member’s lake this past summer. She told me about how she had been swimming around in the water for a while and decided to put her goggles on and swim underwater. She went on to describe the darkness of
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I have always thought fireplaces were beautiful and I love to watch flames dancing. I enjoy watching their flickering and dancing movement as they change shape, size, and color while they burn. I thought about my interest in fires today as I studied about the fires that often come into a Christian’s life and wondered
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I was recently reading the end of the gospel of Mark. Several verses in chapter fourteen caught my attention. It was telling the story about the last Passover Jesus celebrated with His disciples. He sent a couple of His disciples into the city to find a room for them to use to celebrate the Passover.
I am always amazed at how you can read a passage of Scripture many times and still have God point out something different to you each time. I have been reading chapter five in Luke which tells the story about a great catch of fish. Jesus was teaching from Peter’s boat and when He finished,
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1 One unseasonably warm day at the end of January, my daughter, who was four at the time, and I decided to take advantage of the nice weather by going for a walk. It was a lovely day and we
One morning several years ago, I was trying to comb and style my daughter’s hair. The bathroom mirror was completely fogged up, and she was unable to see what I was doing. She made a comment about me not being able to see but I assured her that I could see her hair just fine.
Genesis One: Separating the Light From the Dark Before time as we know it began, there was “darkness over the surface of the deep” (Gen. 1:2). As God gave birth to time itself, He brought light to our world. There at the very beginning of it all, God separated light from darkness. He stepped into
My daughter once caught a glimpse of some scars on my stomach from a surgery I had recently gone through. She expressed her surprise that they were still so visible since it had been a few months. She told me that she thought they would have been gone by then. I explained to her that,
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