In February 2018 our pastor preached a series of sermons on relationships. The final message was on relationship with ourselves. The quality of our life is dependent on relationships. We are told to love others as ourselves. We try to hide our lack of self-Love in...
1 Corinthians 3:11-15 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will...
Bill or I are continually hunting something…..phones, glasses, eye drops, dog leashes, wallet, shoes, jackets, etc. So, I’m still lying in bed when Bill wanders through the bedroom. He pokes around at the bedside table, apparently looking for something. “Whatcha...
When the Lord liberates you from something, walk away and don’t look back. But until then, you have to persevere in obedience with the assignment or the obstacle. I haven’t found that persevering is particularly peaceful unless you learn to transcend it and just keep...
From a Titus 2 lady who is 3 years clean and employed for the last 2 years in a well paying job she really enjoys…..a Valentine’s gift…..A Willow Tree figurine entitled “Butterfly” by artist Susan Lordi …. She saw this and it...
These are photos of the life cycle of the Monarch Butterfly that hang in my office and that I use with our new students, explaining the process of transformation this way: 1.) egg- like the tiniest embryo of a human, this little egg contains all that it will need to...
The metaphor offered below by my friend, Deborah Ann Holstine, is RICH!!!! It is a beautiful biblical exercise in visioning one’s own transition from victimization and bondage in sin to victorious living in Christ! We use an adaptation of William Bridges’ diagram on...
True….But you can always recognize the tempter’s “dainty treats” by the ways in which it tempts you: lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, or pride of life…. the tempter uses different dilemmas but formulates them according to one or more...
John, as an apostolic witness, informs our understanding of Christ’s teaching through his writing about The Vine and the Branches- John 15:1-10 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while...
