You cannot surrender to whom and what you don’t know. We hear surrender a lot around our faith but what does it mean to live a surrendered life, who do we surrender to and how do we surrender. In the first part of the Yielded Life Bible Study we discussed “The Surrendered Life“, in the […]
Welcome to the second part of The Yielded Life Bible Study series. In the first part, we discussed The Surrendered Life. Today, we continue with God’s Will and what Jesus teaches us about it. Transitions are hard. Changes are uncomfortable. Suffering is a very real part of life. The journey to the cross had started […]
My friend Bettie shares about how hope in God despite her struggle with an autoimmune disease. I admire her moxie. When I read the biographies of Christian women Elisabeth Elliot, Mary Wesley, or Bible Women like Ruth and Naomi, Deborah, Dorcas, Elisabeth, Mary etc. Some with bruises, others on bended knees, long waiting days, facing […]
Happy New Year people! It’s New year New resolutions, New Plans etc. You know I love plans and making them. They give you a map to follow. Properly designed plans show you a strategy. I spend valuable time exploring how to make my plans somewhat better. *To read all eight New Year articles shared on […]
With all my heart I pray the very best blessings to you and your family in the New Year. My family are spending a couple weeks in our home town. It’s been so good thus far! The serenity of nature poured joy into my heart. Nature makes glad the heart. The curtains of the year […]
And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them. Luke 2:20 We have heard about Jesus We have tasted of His goodness. Let us sit in awe of Him. Let us praise Him with all of hearts. The saints of […]
And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child. And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds. Luke 2:17-18 The Shepherds could not contain their experience. They told everyone who cared to listen. One Angelic visit. One […]
She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” Matthew 1:21 We have carried our sins with us for so long. Why would anyone think that we could live any other way? We have grown complacent and numb to the […]
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. Luke 2:7 Every home was filled. The inn too. The sheds occupied. Every heart busy and distracted. Save one tiny corner on the stable. The animals were […]
“On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.” Matthew 2:11 The gifts we give each other at Christmas can sometimes feel too little or mis-matched for the persons […]