2025-12-08
Opening Heavy Doors
So often our natural response is to make life easier for our children, forgetting that it is by opening increasingly heavy doors that they will ultimately succeed. Teach us, Lord, when and how to help.
Read more..Thoughts By Marilyn Ehle
2025-12-06
Enemies of Christmas
Perhaps one of the most striking aspects of this dark side of Christmas is how God dealt with his enemies and their schemes to kill Jesus.
Read more..2025-12-03
Reason(s) for the Season
Each day during this beautiful month I want to discover yet another “reason for the season.” What new work of God is happening in our lives? What new truths from the Bible are becoming reality?
Read more..2025-11-22
Papa
They didn't know that God longed to be known as a tender, loving "Abba," or "Papa"
Read more..2025-11-15
Putting Our Affairs in Order
Put your affairs in order. Words that jolt us out of the false sense of security we possess—likely brought about by an equally false sense of control.
Read more..2025-10-24
A Two-Pronged Question
The first question is a primary one: “Who do you say that He is?” The second question is one we grow into: “Who does Jesus say I am?”
Read more..2025-10-21
This I Believe
“What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.”
Read more..2025-10-19
Dry Towels and Thirsty Souls
“Blessed are those who trust in the Lord and have made the Lord their hope and confidence. They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they never stop producing fruit”. Jeremiah 17:7-8
Read more..2025-10-18
Growing in Winter
Thank you for the times of blooming but also for the colder days when I may not see results
Read more..2025-10-17
Preparing for Winter
Turn to the Bible, the food that will sustain us not only in the present but in the wintry days of increasing darkness
Read more..2025-10-06
Praise: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
Singing on Sunday morning is far different from living on Monday in the classroom, office or field.
Read more..2025-10-03
Mountain Peaks and Regal Robes
“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart,..." Our Heavenly Father just asks for willing people to work with all their hearts, knowing that God accepts our service.
Read more..2025-09-20
Perfume to God
Father God, I want to be perfume to you but often, I admit, what you smell in my good works is the stench of self-reliance and self-satisfaction.
Read more..2025-09-14
A Hint of Things to Come
C.S. Lewis wrote that we live between the now and not yet. We live in a broken world. God promises that He will never leave nor forsake us,
Read more..2025-09-12
Just How Bad Could it Get?
Romans 8:28 "We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.”
Read more..2025-09-11
Faulty Building Materials
Anyone who has ever been involved in building a structure knows the value of carefully attaching the superstructure to a firm foundation. Rusty nails will not do.
Read more..2025-09-10
A Lost Art
To confess sin means 'to agree with God' about it, to have His view toward it. With that kind of honest confession and determination to turn from the sin comes the incredible flood of forgiveness:
Read more..2025-09-03
I Demand to Be Right!
Do you find yourself constantly correcting people in conversation? Do you feel the need to share your insight or knowledge
Read more..2025-08-14
Small Words, Large Meaning
"May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face shine on us so that your (God's) ways may be known on earth, so that all the ends of the earth will fear him".
Read more..2025-08-12
Selling it All
Jesus never asks us to be foolish, but he does demand total commitment. Sometimes dedication to him appears foolish to onlookers
Read more..2025-08-09
Peeking into God’s Mind
Not only can we think about God, but he thinks about us! David seems almost overwhelmed by the concept of God’s unwavering attention being focused on his children. He describes God’s thoughts as not merely cerebral; they are precious.
Read more..2025-08-01
If I Could Just See Jesus
Soul questions: Do you still have no faith? Why are you so afraid? Don’t you understand yet?
Read more..2025-07-19
Owned or Loaned?
Father, Thank you for the privilege of managing what truly belongs to you. Help me be a generous and careful tender of all that truly belongs to you.
Read more..2025-07-12
Wandering and Wondering
It is sadly easy to get musty and murky in our spiritual lives. God becomes an old, old habit and our lamps no longer attract people to the Savior.
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