I have expressed a preference to see more groups take on direct Bible study instead of purchasing commercial lesson package plans with DVDs, books, and study guides one after another. We are training people to eat scriptural baby food instead of training them to...
Ann Voskamp in a video presentation 2/4/2017: “You are what your heart loves. …..Draw a cross on your wrist and ask, “What do you want?” And “Do you want what Christ wants?” Cross-shaped thinking, cross-shaped...
From 2/4/2018 Sweet Memory of Life With Bill I am so blessed to have a husband who is so easy to please with food. He will pretty much eat whatever I cook. He recently purchased an extra large T-fal skillet…really nice….to try his hand at cooking. I had...
Colossians 2:18- “Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind.” In a...
There was a time I visited a large couples Sunday School class years ago at a church. Their prayer request time took up most of the session and the burdens were significant for some. It became so oppressive and overwhelming to me I had to leave the class. Later on a...
I have lived in exile from the world many years but it didn’t seem so strange when Bill was here with me. I’m still adapting to this reality. But Christ is closer than ever all the same… the presence of the seedbed.com online community helps...
Psalm 68 “May God arise, may his enemies be scattered; may his foes flee before him. 2 May you blow them away like smoke— as wax melts before the fire, may the wicked perish before God. 3 But may the righteous be glad and rejoice before God; may they be happy...
Jesus said He had to leave for the benefit of His followers, so the Comforter could come…. Jesus knew we would depend on seeing Him with our own eyes, on having His physical Presence, as long as we could. We could never mature in the Spirit while depending on...
The Bible tells us that God’s glory is manifest all around us in creation from the beauty of the cosmos to craggy mountain landscapes. God has used many things to capture the eye and attention of mankind and to speak to their hearts and minds. Donkeys, burning bushes,...
