Blooming

Blooming

by Christine Brown Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God. -Jim Elliot Don’t strain your eyes to see the future – for you will not be able to see clearly what God wants you to see now. -Elisabeth Elliot Looks like the…

Thankful All Year

It’s been years now since I started keeping a mental joy journal- a running list of the things in life that made me happy, that made my cup overflow, that brought my heart joy and made me thankful to be alive. Sometimes my lists are filled with obvious things. Sometimes it is filled with little…

The Giant Fear

Have you ever seen a giant, or perhaps you’ve heard it noised about the camp that “there be giants in the land”? Let me tell you, it is all too true. There are giants out there, and they will get you if you don’t watch out. I rather think that the giants I see might…

Marriage Is Not My Highest Calling

I believe strongly and wholeheartedly in solid, godly marriages. Marriage is an awe-inspiring, truly blissful thing and something to be lauded and heralded as the God-ordained institution it is. We are people created for marriage and, once married, we should strive daily, at every possible opportunity to encourage each other toward even stronger, even holier marriages. But marriage is…

My Redeemer’s Heart

I sat down at the kitchen table with a cup of tea, opened my Hebrew Bible to the Jerusalem postcard marking my place, and began to read: The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah… Three words in, I stopped. I was reading Isaiah 61. Which meant that despite all the debate about whether first century Jews…

Fear

Fear

by Melissa C. . “Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.“ –James 1:12 Fear. We are all well-acquainted with him, as much as we would love to bar him from even…

Umbrellas

Umbrellas

by Deb, from the IDD Blog For some reason, I just don’t use umbrellas. I don’t really know why. It’s not that I have a fetish for eyeliner and blush running down my wet cheeks. Or that I enjoy my hair resembling my dog John’s on bath day. I just don’t use them. If I’m…

For to me to live is…

Our new pastor is preaching through Philippians. He said the first time he preached through Philippians it took him just a couple months. He’s been here over a month and we’ve covered the first twenty-one verses. It’s refreshing to have some old-fashioned verse-by-verse teaching. Give me that over a topical sermon any time! The topics…

Out of the Woods

Out of the Woods

by Elisabeth A. August 20, 2007 For about four years now, I’ve been making forays into the dense, confusing, nearly impenetrable world of the Hebrew Bible. I started out easily enough: with each English word conveniently underneath the Hebrew, I was practically led by the hand through many of the Psalms. Then I moved on…

Narnian Air

Narnian Air

by Elizabeth D. “I don’t think Edmond would have had a chance if he had fought Trumpkin twenty-four hours earlier. But the air of Narnia had begun working upon him ever since they arrived on the island, ad all his old battles came back to him, and his arms and fingers remembered their old skill. He was…

The End.

The End.