Have you ever considered that the first specific act of God recorded in Scripture was to send light into darkness? The Bible records it this way in Genesis 1:1-3: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on ...
Read More »3 Things That Hinder Our Prayers
“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ” -John Bunyan If your life is anything like mine everyday seems more busy than ever before. It appears to drag us into multiple directions at once and it can be difficult to think ...
Read More »Our Hope: Walkin’ On Through It
‘Those who know Your name will trust in You, for You, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek You.’ Psalm 9:10 (NIV) Let’s agree right away that life is hard. There is no splitting hairs about it, no glossing it over, no making it sound better than that. But even though ...
Read More »The Two-Faced Teen
I overheard a comment in my classroom today that made my ears perk up and my face cringe. The teen was surfing through multiple tabs in her browser, which included her Pandora account. Turning to her classmate she made a comment about the station she was listening to a mix ...
Read More »Respecting God
My friends often ask me why, when I write, I capitalize the nouns depicting God, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus when I am typing verses from Bible versions that do not capitalize them in their text. The nouns are he, him, me, mine, those kinds of words. The only answer ...
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