There are moments when one sees a situation playing out in a way that looks so familiar it almost feels like deja’ vu. But the second time through a sudden awareness dawns: this is a spiritual attack. It had all the same preceding characteristics…… rapid onset...
Listening, hearing the hurt, knowing the truth of another’s loneliness and fear……and being able to persuade her that there is help, that you know Him, and will go with her to meet Him…or sit with her and cry, too, while you both wait for Him to...
On Gratitude 8-21-17 Bill and I have started a home small group….a “life group”….as our church now calls it, on Sunday evenings at 5:30. Bill and I cook and provide dinner to those who come. We have a devotional together first. As the basis of the reflections we are...
Today I heard James McDonald talking about families…specifically he was referencing Hannah, a grieving barren woman and how she took her pain and pleading to where it belonged….. to God….not to her husband. In talking about the issue of where we take...
Corrie Ten Boom: You’ll never learn that God is all you need until God is all you have. I have talked to several people in recent weeks who had all discovered this truth through difficult circumstances….losses due to death of loved ones or divorce,...
It’s been “one of those days” when everything on my calendar went smoothly and God was so palpably present that it was……..sacred! Even a 25 minute car ride to take a young lady for lab work was precious….. conversation so intimate...
