Today is national Spotlight on Slavery Day. Seems straight forward and simple, right? Human trafficking – sex trafficking, etc. So don’t be surprised to see people of all kinds wearing a red X on the back of their hand. But you know me… I’ve always got to think further and more outside the box than that…
Thanking God For The Pain
Last week I was struck ill. Not just a little cough or flu, but seriously sickly. Complete with excrutiating pain.
Because I have stage three chronic kidney disease, every one thought I was just passing a kidney stone. No big deal right? Except if you have CKD it can damage your kidney function even further. And I was just sure it was and afraid of going to the hospital to find out….
Unusual Circumstances
As most of you know, my book came out a couple of weeks ago. Because it’s Christmas time, I have been looking for things to post about Christmas and reading those verses in Luke about Mary’s story in all of this.
And my friend is helping me write a study guide that goes along with my book. So we were discussing the fact that Mary unequivocally said yes to God and His plan…
Handel’s Messiah Part Four – Worthy Is The Lamb
So in our last song from Handel’s Messiah, we go to the throne room scene in heaven in Revelation chapter five. All of creation in heaven has been watching as the bowls and the seals have been revealed one by painstaking one. God is giving the last chances for anyone on earth who would believe…
Offense, Fruit and Gifts
Preface: I am doing a series on Offense over in my Facebook group, Going Beyond Shame and Guilt. This is what popped up today and you can see how it developed into this post, so I am sharing it with you all, too…
Handel’s Messiah Part 3 – THE Hallelujah Chorus
My favorite of the all! The Hallelujah Chorus! If you don’t know the story behind it, you will laugh a little at this.
So Handel and the musicians of the day were to perform the entire Messiah for the King…
Back to the Word
So, I am finding out more and more as I go along that most people really want to have time for God. We want to have time to pray, really pray. And time to dig deeper into His Word on a daily basis. But, we have been taught that God is patient. So since our kids, our husbands, our jobs, our very culture isn’t patient, we procrastinate on digging deeper…
Handel’s Messiah Part 2 – Since By Man Came Death
I love that the songs are comprised of Bible verses and not only tell the story of Christmas, as we call it, but also lay out the gospel plan of salvation for everyone.
A tad bit of history: The king asked Handle to write a composition for Easter. Handel lived at the same time as Bach. But Handel was a bit more passionate about his work and the king liked his style…
Handle’s Messiah Part 1 – All We Like Sheep
For those of you who don’t know, I went to a Christian High school and was in choir. I loved it so much. I was especially impacted by my freshman year’s selection of songs we learned along with some other Christian High Schools and we all sang together. I’d only ever heard the Hallelujah Chorus up to this point, so some of these other songs really made me love this entire work…
God’s Word and the Holidays
NEW BIBLE STUDY: We wanted to go through the holidays without missing God’s Word. So we have chosen a study with very little homework so we can both enjoy the holidays and dig deeper into God’s word…
