Daily encouragement for Christians
From the archive: Do you invite Jesus to join you in your leisure activities? It was a beautiful spring day and a free fishing weekend in Michigan when we cleaned the pontoon boat and took it out for the first time of the season. We caught a few fish but my eight-year-old grandson soon became […]
When I was invited to become a weekly contributor on someone else’s page I was asked by the moderator to include a meme with each post. I asked, “What is a meme?” It sounded foreign to me. I would have understood the word “image” but meme comes from a language that is ever-changing in […]
“Do you think I have come to bring peace in the Land? Not peace, I tell you, but division!” (Luke 12:51)The people of Israel were looking for the promised king to rule their country and to bring and keep peace in their land. Instead, they got a baby born into a poor, unmarried family, who […]
Have you ever been called superstitious because of your faith? Several years ago, when my husband and I bought our business, I was greatly disturbed by the business address and decided to bring it before the postmaster in an effort to change it. The address was 666 S. Center St. It crawled up under […]
Some versions of the Bible use the word contentious a few times, mostly in Proverbs. “It is better to dwell in a desert land than with a contentious and troublesome woman.” Proverbs 21:19 AMP “A constant dripping on a day of steady rain and a contentious (quarrelsome) woman are alike.” Proverbs 27:15 AMP Have you […]
Do you feel the freedom of everlasting life, now? Death is just the name of a bridge that we all must cross. But, “the Torah [Law] of the Spirit, which produces life in union with Messiah Yeshua, has set me free from the (law) of sin and death.” (Romans 8:2) We humans never had what […]
Season fourteen of America’s Got Talent awarded the $1,000,000 prize to Kodi Lee. Kodi was born blind and autistic, a nightmare combination for any parent. At twenty-two years old he took the world by storm. He brought something to the stage that sent the Spirit forth. Standing with his mom and his cane, at his […]
From the archives: Have you taken the tools God provides and turned them into guilty pleasures? My name is Linda and I stand guilty as charged. I have spent most of my life overweight. I was never very athletic or physically active. I was more the type to curl up with a book or grab […]
It is said that the days of having one occupation are gone. I have read that the average worker today will have not just ten jobs but an average of ten occupations during their working years. I was raised to be loyal to the company that provided my living but apparently that rule has fallen […]
It’s skunk season in my part of the world. My five-year-old black lab was unfamiliar with the species, so naturally, with his inquisitive nature, he had to check it out. My granddaughter and I were outside when she yelled down the hill to me that Jax was chasing something. But, before she could finish her […]
