Trust in the LORD with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5 (NASB) Important announcement below.  Please read to the end of this post. We will all face very difficult valley decisions at some point in our lives.  Perhaps you are at that place now.  When trials seem [...]

  And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Hebrews 10:24 (NIV) Years ago I worked in an elementary school that employed a lot of people. There were those who everyone loved and there were others who many just tolerated. Tolerance often came up short and that is sad.  [...]

     Get rid of all hard feelings, anger and rage. Stop all fighting and lying. Put away every form of hatred. Ephesians 4:31 (NIV) Last Wednesday, Pastor Christopher B. Wolf shared on facebook that he would be discussing the issue of forgiveness and letting go on his radio program, Walk with Me, that night. He [...]

  For you created my inmost being;    you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;    your works are wonderful,    I know that full well. Psalm 139:13-14 (NIV) Hope you’ll read Part One, posted on Wednesday, in which Christopher wrote about the importance of “whispers” and the doubts some [...]

    I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent. Luke 15:7 (NIV) Once upon a time, I sat next to a girl in a class in which the desks were two-person [...]

    And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ. Luke 2:26 (NASB) Graphic courtesy of Heartlight, Inc. Have you ever paid attention to the part of the Christmas story in Luke 2, where we read about a believer’s [...]

       “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Though you are little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out of you shall come forth to Me The One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from of old, From everlasting.” Micah 5:2 (NKJV) Several months ago I should have written about the Annunciation, the occasion [...]

    “But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.”  I Peter 3:4 (KJV) You may already have your Christmas tree up and are enjoying its splendor and [...]

    There was a woman who had suffered for years.  But it wouldn’t go away.  She had tried everything.  She was alone.  She was out of money and it wasn’t getting better.  The doctors had no answers. She was at the end of her rope.  And it’s not just her.  Men and women, young [...]

  “Now we look inside, and what we see is that anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start, is created new.” (2 Corinthians 5:17, The Message) So I know that I am late in grasping the phenomenon of the television show The Biggest Loser. But having watched just a few episodes, I wanted [...]