Psalm 104:4 He makes winds his messengers, flames of fire his servants. This morning the Titus 2 ladies and I went to help with the Community Breakfast at Trinity Center of First United Methodist Church. It was a wonderful morning! Lynn Haven UMC volunteers cooked...
5-14-17 How many of us, as we grew older and, hopefully, wiser, discovered that our mothers, and our fathers, maybe, just maybe, actually DID know more than we did? I was the only member of my birth family...
I was in a restaurant with a good-sized group of Christian women, each of us paying separately. We had a private room and one waiter. When people began leaving he got confused and accidentally gave my bill to someone else who had left earlier. When I got ready to...
Can someone explain this to me, please? I have had more than a few women tell me, when asked about their family status…..Children? “Yes.” Marital status? “Single” Divorced? “No. I don’t believe in divorce.” Okay....
The Marriage Box The Marriage Box Most people get married believing a myth, that marriage is a beautiful box full of all the things they have longed for: Companionship, sexual fulfillment, intimacy, friendship. The truth is that marriage, at the start, is an...
I’ve always been intrigued by Simon Peter’s name change dubbed by Jesus and the way in which, at particular times of reprimand, Jesus would resort to his former natural flesh-life name and when Jesus was seeing something more promising and worthy of...
Carol Kent wrote a book years ago, “When I Lay My Isaac Down.” Although Isaac was promised and given by God, there came a time when God required Abraham to lay Isaac down, to sacrifice him. Or, as it turned out in that case, at the very least, to be...
Reprise On Being an EGR (Extra Grace Required) At least two or three times a week I check in on my weblog, www.disciplerofself.org, as I prepare a post. There is an application with it that keeps stats on visitors to the weblog…no names or emails or any identifying...
(This was written by me in July 2005, a year and a half before I went back to graduate school for counseling. When I did, I chose a social services curriculum and to go a biblical route instead of a licensed mental health counseling route because of what I understood...
There are occasions when meek, emotionally-controlled, wounded women come to Titus 2 who have been subjected to abuse in one or more forms- emotional, physical, financial, sexual, psychological, spiritual, or relational. They often have learned to be...
