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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Walking Through Storms I recently saw a picture on social media of a snow-covered bison. The caption talked about how bison are one of the few animals that walk into a snowstorm. The one who shared the photo said that this was likely because they knew that doing so would get them through it more
Coram Deo Challenge Once while I was preparing a Sunday school lesson, I came across a phrase that to my knowledge, I had never heard before. It was the Latin phrase Coram Deo which means “before the face of God”. This phrase was taken from Psalm 56:13 and is a reminder that we are walking
