This is a testimony and significant part of the reason why I am so adamant about no smoking at Titus 2 or around my home. Written a couple of years ago, I have shared it a number of times with women in recovery. Kicking nicotine along with other chemical dependencies...
Nearly 400 years after the Hebrew people came sojourning with honor and hospitality into the land of Egypt during a famine, their hosts had become oppressors. Their lives were hard, even putting an entire generation of male children at risk of death as a means...
Fruit of the Spirit as Landmarks in our Spiritual Journey……. I had wanted the stairs at Titus 2’s residential recovery program stenciled with the Fruit of the Spirit from Galatians 5:22-23 since the home was purchased in November 2014. Finally, in 2019 as we were...
Bill Byrd, who passed from this physical life into his true life in eternity with the Lord on August 6, 2020, was raised in Dearborn, MI, an only child, an only grandchild, and an only nephew among his immediate family. He did have a number of Byrd family aunts,...
I’ve been pondering Jesus’ interactions with people…. What occurs to me is the diversity of the people with whom He interacted. But not only that, except for His regular criticism of the hypocrisy of religious elites overall, Jesus dealt with individuals as...
One poster in a daily devotional discussion group observed that having grown up in a particular faith tradition, she appreciated the ways in which it had developed her spiritually. “But I was never taught that there was any other kind of faith than...
