CHRISTMAS CAN BE A LONELY TIME, BUT HE IS THE GOD OF ALL COMFORT: 3rd Advent Sunday
In The God of All Comfort, I share this from my prayer journal: Friday, December 12 THE SECOND ADVENT WITHOUT STEVE Where are you, God? Tonight I drove up to ...
YOU KNIT ME TOGETHER IN MY MOTHER’S WOMB
Two of my daughters are expecting babies this week. Anne, we think, is first. Here she is -- 9 months and four days pregnant. She is praying labor happens naturally, ...
CATCHING THE WIND OF HIS SPIRIT
Learning how to pray the psalms has changed my prayer life from rowing upstream to catching the wind of His Spirit. We're going to look at just four verses from ...
A PSALM FOR DANGER
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BLOW UPON MY GARDEN
In the Song of Songs, the Beloved says to her Lover: "Awake north wind, and come south wind! Blow upon my garden that its fragrance may spread abroad." (Song of ...
WHITER THAN SNOW
This is going to be a great week. Paul Tripp's devotional on Psalm 51 is packed with insightful questions on this famous psalm. I'm going to use just a few ...
YOU HEAR, O LORD, THE DESIRE OF THE AFFLICTED
The Lord sets His face against the proud, but He is for the humble, the outcast, the afflicted. I've seen it again and again. This is my just born granddaughter, ...
REVIEW of The God of All Comfort: THE LAMENT
Whether you have been going through The God of All Comfort with us from the beginning or joined us somewhere along the way, there is great value in review. If ...
Teach Me Some Melodious Sonnet
The first phrase in "Come Thou Fount" shows us three reasons that there is such tremendous power in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. "Teach me some melodious sonnet, sung by ...
What thoughts did you have on the movie Blindside?
For those of you who haven't seen it, it is based on a true story of a devout Christian couple who took in a homeless teen who was failing in ...
Why do so many Christians resist counseling?
We're continuing Christy's story from past posts where we've been getting your wonderful input. When Christy's friends realized she had a pattern of unhealthy friendships, one particular friend gave her ...
Where can the One whom my soul loves be found?
Richard Wurmbrund, who is well known for his work with Voice of the Martyrs and who suffered torture and imprisonment for his faith in Christ in Romania, has written a ...
Tell us how you’ve been kissed recently!
The Song of Songs opens with "Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth." We understand what this means on an earthly level -- but what does it ...
Are You Experiencing Pain in Friendship?
Are you experiencing pain in a friendship? I would love to have this be a place where we can gently help each other. Recently Remi wrote with a friendship problem ...