Someone asked this week how Titus 2 is supported…My reply was that our ministry is supported by faith and the favor of God, donations from the community and modest student fees of families that are able to pay and students once they advance to the point of...
On Sunday, September 8, 2019, during communion time, as I prayed I had a vision of me bowing before the throne of God, one among billions in white robes with the light of the glory of God shining down on us all. It was warm and comforting and I felt connected to the...
JD Walt at Seedbed.com in today’s devotional talks about why the average person doesn’t hear the voice of the Holy Spirit…In writing about this topic he says, “People who aren’t living life in the big framework of the gospel don’t recognize the...
“We’ll be praying for you.” Recently, someone shared with me her disappointment in circumstances after she made known some concerns about immediate needs she had among a group of Christians with whom she has been in weekly fellowship for a while....
I know this is one of the aspects of fruit of the Spirit, and I agree that kindness is important. I have even been praying for a more consistent expressing of kindness and gentleness in my life, neither of which I get regularly accused of having in any significant...
Children who are molested, sexually abused, or used for the physical and emotional gratification of adults may become adults who are emotionally wounded, fearful, anxious, co-dependent, insecure or may overcompensate for those things by narcissism, bullying,...
In the mid-70’s my husband, Bill and I were friends with a couple whose children played with our children. They lived a few blocks from us. The husband and I worked at the same hospital in the same department. I was a medical technology intern and he was a physician...
The Unanswerables in Life 6/9/19 CBByrd Jill Carattini’s devotionals at Ravi Zacharias International MInistries challenge me. Today she writes about unanswerable questions. I chuckled as I read, “more than a few of my plaguing inquiries were probably the...
There are three kinds of dead. Physically dead: no heartbeat, no brain activity. Returning to dust. Psychologically dead: no will to live, immobilized, depressed, incapacitated to one degree or another either physically or mentally, perhaps even vegetative. One can be...
Bill sent this out today to his children, his best friends, and me. He had seen this youtube video. It reminded him of his Dad and his Dad’s advice to him through the years. His Dad died when he was 23. Our son, Billy, was 1. To You; Billy Byrd;...
