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If Life Is A Test….

by | Jul 15, 2022 | Uncategorized

Here’s “ponderable” that arose from a conversation …One person has stated that “life is a test” and she sees everything through the lens of being tested. I asked if she felt the tests were from the devil or from God....

Redemptive Reversals

by | Jul 12, 2022 | redemption

“The first Adam fell from his humanity from eating a proscribed meal he was forbidden to eat. The last Adam showed us how to rise to our humanity from eating a prescribed meal we are bidden to eat.” Leonard Sweet There is such beauty in the many ways we...

Can We Love Enemies, Even Judas?

by | Jul 10, 2022 | Faith, love, righteousness

Someone posted a meme in social media about the mark of Christianity being the ability to love Judas as well as Jesus. I actually have considered that before. If satan had to ask to sift Peter, then he would have also had to ask permission of the sovereign God to sift...

Bible Stories By The Wayside

by | Jul 9, 2022 | Bible Study

This morning’s Wayside topic: setting out on journeys…..from “Bible Notes by the Wayside” by Rev. Horatio Hackett, written in 1852 following several months of travel in the Holy Land. He writes about the story of Jesus’ parents starting...

Emotions: Inside Out

by | Jul 9, 2022 | emotions

Speaking of Pixar’s new film “Inside Out”, consulting psychologist Dacher Keltner answered this question: What did the film get right? “Well, I think that the film really got a couple of big ideas about emotions right. One, [emotions] are...

God Uses Broken Things

by | Jul 9, 2022 | brokenness

Brokenness is a regular theme at Titus 2 Our women are always surprised to find that it is the starting point of the Kingdom of God, the first of the Beatitudes, the point of entry for the Kingdom of Heaven. Have you considered that the Gates of Heaven are made of...

2020: Review

by | Jul 9, 2022 | joy

  shared on FB 7/8/2020 Don’t know who wrote this but it’s a great laugh…and who doesn’t need a laugh right now? Long read but worth the laugh😉. #😷or⚰️ Dear Diary 2020 Edition, In ❄️ January, 🔥 Australia caught on fire. I don’t even know if that fire was...

Parables: Minds Upset

by | Jul 9, 2022 | Bible Study

One of my very favorite devotional writers- Jill Carattini always challenges one to think! And one of my favorite topics….the revelation of God in Christ! Minds Upset Wherever one might be in declarations of belief, God is so often not the God these declarations...

Death: poem By William Cullen Bryant

by | Jul 9, 2022 | grief

So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed By...