THANKSGIVING WEEK 2018!
THANKSGIVING IS BEAUTIFUL IN ITS SIMPLICITY, FREEDOM OF WORSHIPNORMAN ROCKWELL IN HOW BOTH AUTUMN & HARVEST SPEAK ETERNAL TRUTHS, AND IN HOW ITS GREAT HYMNS, FROM ...
31 Days of Thanksgiving (Does it actually save you?)
When I first heard that Ann VosKamp's One Thousand Gifts was staying on the New York Time's bestseller list, I thought: Really? A book on something as elementary as giving ...
31 Days of Giving Thanks (With the help of Andrew Peterson’s “Is He Worthy?)
This week we are going to allow God's gift of music to stir our hearts toward thankfulness, for music has power. I see it in prison all the time. They ...
31 Days of Giving Thanks (With help from Eugene Peterson)
This is our second week of our "giving thanks journey" leading up to Thanksgiving. Early Monday morning Eugene Peterson went to be with the Lord. He has blessed so many ...
31 Days of Thankfulness (Days 1-6)
It seems almost unbelievable that simply sowing seeds of thankfulness could transform your life, producing abundant joy, peace, and love -- but scriptures and studies tell us it is true. ...
Election: A Hard Truth
Romans 9 is one of the hardest chapters in the whole Bible because it explains election, which many believers simply cannot accept. But I cannot, before God, skip Romans ...
MY KING AND MY GOD! (Psalm 5) No matter what life brings…
We've been looking at a pattern in Scripture, where God says: You are my people! And His people reply: You are my God! This is the heart attitude we are ...
When Loved Ones Break your Heart (Psalm 4)
You have loved, but the one whom you loved: a child, a sibling, a parent, a sister, a brother in Christ... has turned on you. Betrayal by loved ones is shocking and heart-breaking. What ...
You Are My God — Even Amidst Hurricane Florence
When disaster strikes, where can we go? Only to "Our God." He will either stop the storm, or be with us in the storm. You will hear stories from two ...
Experience His Presence More Than You Have
If I were to name a common denominator, a desire that the women here all have, it is to experience His presence. This last week I've been mediating on a ...
WAITING ON THE LORD!
I'm taking a break to wait on the Lord as to what He would have me do next with this blog. But in the meantime, I'd love to continue the ...
FINISHING MERE CHRISTIANITY! WE DID IT!
WE DID IT! WITH THIS LAST WEEK OF SUMMER, WE WILL HAVE COMPLETED MERE CHRISTIANITY. IT MAKES ME WANT TO SING THIS, FROM MY FAIR LADY: You did it! You ...
Did C. S. Lewis believe in purgatory?
We're going to discuss if Lewis believed in purgatory at the end of the week -- and I am eager for your views. He says some very controversial things in ...
Let’s Pretend (Earthly stories that illumine truth)
One evening at Oxford, before C. S. Lewis was converted to Christianity, he had a famous conversation with J. R. R. Tolkein in which Lewis lamented that though he had ...
How To Change (Mere Christianity)
Theology, or doctrine, matters. It influences our thinking, and our thinking shapes how we live. Let me illustrate. Living close to my daughter Sally the last five years has given ...