Can You See the World Around You?

Tweet We live in a land of plenty. We also live in our own world. By that I mean, we live to ourselves and for ourselves. We only choose the people we want to associate with to create our own world. Several years ago, around Thanksgiving time, a lady in our church stood up and more »

Dying to Produce

Tweet On my way into town today, I passed by miles and miles of corn and soybean fields.  They are a thing of beauty to me. I guess it is just the Midwest that is in my blood.  Some of the fields are being harvested.  It is my favorite time of the year. This morning more »

Honduras Dream

Tweet Me on a mission trip?  I never dreamed I would be going on a mission trip to Honduras.  It was never on my radar.  But when you give God your life, His radar becomes yours.  And God loves the people of Honduras. In July, 2011, I was invited to go to Costa Rica on more »

So Where Does God Fit In?

Tweet I often meet up with people who are turned off by any mention of God. Many of them are amazingly generous; willing to do anything for anybody; while some stand rigidly opposed to the idea that God could even exist. The turn-off often revolves around personal pain or wider realities: like disasters or how more »

Unconditional Love

Tweet For the last four weeks I’ve been privileged with a front row seat to the miracle of life. One of my ducks, Dorothy, spent the hottest part of this year so far tending to a nest of eggs laid in late June and she now has three newly-hatched ducklings to show for her patience. more »

For His Name Sake

Tweet Jesus Christ of Nazareth who gave ALL for all of you Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the express image of the Father His heart is not weighed down as if burdened by His sacrifice No, instead it is filled with joy You are not a burden to ME.  You are MY Joy.  My Treasure. The one to whom I AM your more »

Fired Up – For Keeps

Tweet The London Olympics wrapped up sixteen days of competition in a sound and light extravaganza, dazzling thousands of spectators and competitors in the stadium, and millions in the world-wide audience. A special moment came as the towering Olympic Torch was lowered, spreading out to reveal how metallic flower petals had each carried gas-fed flames more »

Barefeet

Tweet Did you ever end-up loving something that you actually despised for several years? For instance, I didn’t like spinach very much growing up, but I like it now and often put it on my sub sandwiches. Others of us have said we’d never do social media, and now we’re hooked checking our status several more »

The Impossibility of Controlling God

Tweet This is a video teaching by Jessie Campbell.   My love affair with the Lord began on a small island off of Australia. He revealed the depth of His love. Opened my heart to what the Cross actually achieved and what He had to pay to accomplish such a final solution. Separating Himself from more »

The Young & Restless Days of My Life

Tweet When my oldest child was an infant (over 15 years ago), I had a deep, dark secret: I watched a couple of soap operas religiously. Now there’s an oxymoron for ya. It was strange. All it took was turning on the tube out of curiosity one time, & I was hooked. The “Days of more »

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