What kind of patterns does your family have? You may have received traditions from your parents, which they received from their parents, but it is our choice whether we continue the patterns or set new ones. Some patterns are innocuous. On Christmas Day in my family growing up we would…
Read moreToday during the Adult Sunday School class, we read the following from Real Encouragement for Real Life by Jeff Schreve: “The sooner you believe and receive God’s great love for you, the better you will be. What happens to a person who truly believes and receives God’s great love? That…
Read more“Blessed be the Lord! For he has heard the voice of my pleas for mercy. The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.” ~ Psalm 28:6-7 (ESV) 2017 did…
Read more“The year begins; and all its pages are as blank as the silent years of the life of Jesus Christ. Let us begin it with high resolution; then let us take all its limitations, all its hindrances, its disappointments, its narrow and common-place conditions, and meet them as the Master…
Read moreWell, here it is … the second day of a new year. “Out with the old and in with the new” is what they say. And that is exactly what I intend to do in 2017. 2016 literally drained me of needy people. Some may call them toxic relationships, whatever…
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