Over the past weeks I was preparing to write a couple of short devotionals for the Advent booklet my local church publishes each Advent season. My one assignment included I Thessalonians 2:1 – 10. “You know, brothers and sisters, that our visit to you was not without results. We had…
Read more“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” Ecc. 3:11 (NIV) True confessions. I am a bit of a nature nerd. I love birds. I chase…
Read moreLord, I know that there is nothing new under the sun. But honestly, I am struggling with feeling like things are out of control. Disease and destruction are rampant. So many people are hurting- ravaged by the effects of living in a sin-fallen world. People are broken, wounded and crushed.…
Read more“The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.” Jer. 31:3 (NIV) It happened a few years back…but it made a lasting impression on me. Our family had gone to the beach in the…
Read more“A champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out of the Philistine camp. His height was six cubits and a span.He had a bronze helmet on his head and wore a coat of scale armor of bronze weighing five thousand shekels; on his legs he wore bronze greaves, and…
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