“Love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart. Repeat them to your children.” Deuteronomy 6:5-7a, CSB Recently I had the opportunity to vacation in the Boston, Massachusetts, USA area. While there … Continue reading Legacy, by Kristi Ann Hunter
“A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.” Proverbs 17:22 (NIV) All right. Time for everyone to be brutally honest. Raise your hand if you have had a bad day in the past week or so. Have you been called “grumpy-pants” at any point in your life? At any … Continue reading Cheerful, by Kimberley Woodhouse
Live by the Spirit and you will not be driven by human desires. Galatians 5:16, (Becky’s No-nonsense Paraphrase). Distraction by Books As a child, I loved car rides for a single reason: I could read chapters at a time without interruption. Books were my escape. Hundreds of books terraformed 3-D maps of imaginary lands, painted … Continue reading By, from Becky Antkowiak
He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” Psalm 46:10 I remember vividly hearing a now very old song by Steven Curtis Chapman, called King of the Jungle. He talked about how if he could get one hand free, he’d be pulling … Continue reading Still, by Debb Hackett
“But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.” Joshua 24:15 Raising … Continue reading Choose by Melissa Carey