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 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…
Have you ever really thought about where this phrase, ‘a hot mess’ came from? Interestingly enough, I watched a sermon just the other day that spoke about its origins.
In the 19th century, it had to do with…
STUDY TO SHOW YOURSELF APPROVED PART 5
Funny how God has the most perfect timing. I was listening to a pastor yesterday and he’s been teaching on Acts. He made a great point when talking about reading and studying the scriptures…
IF YOU LOVE ME… Okay, so yesterday I was reading in John Bevere’s book entitled, “Driven by Eternity”. And this message that’s been stirring around in my heart for a while came up and I wrote down some notes for a blog. But then I second guessed myself. I’m super good…
Okay, so the pastor in church yesterday told us a story. It was about how his beautiful little son just loves the zoo. How he, at four years old loves to get close to anything and everything that is animal. So they went. And the were over near the six-foot Komodo Dragon that had just eaten it’s dinner. He described how there were still pieces of bone attached to the flesh of the dinner the dragon had just devoured. And how, in all their wisdom, the zoo people had not only a railing around this dragon, but also a very tall, glass enclosure. In my view as a mom, glass enclosure + little kids = smart…
The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer, But the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things. – …
COUNTING THE COST 2
Okay, so I realize I may have been long winded, I tend to do that, in my last blog post. (Here’s the part where you chime in with, ‘no kidding!’)…
COUNTING THE COST
We were having lunch with a friend yesterday. He and my daughter Lucy were talking about…
MOMENTUM
I had a really hard time learning that the devil wants to take away our forward movement. So I would make a mistake…
