Seeking a Bride

A New Year means a new opportunity to read through the Bible. When my husband and I were first married, there was an elderly woman in our church who had read through the Bible over fifty times. As the Pastor encouraged her to share about her Bible reading, I realized that I had never readContinue reading “Seeking a Bride”

Let’s Try Again

Before the whole fishy incident, God gave Jonah this command: “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before Me.” Obviously, Jonah did not like this command, and he attempted to flee from the presence of the Lord. (Mistake #1.) You’ve probably read how thatContinue reading “Let’s Try Again”

April Showers

By the time you read this, it will be May Day. We will have had our April showers, and I will be thinking about what and how and when to plant my garden.  Watching the rain fall outside the window, I have alternately thought about the gloomy children in The Cat in the Hat andContinue reading “April Showers”

Today’s Babel

Listen HERE What havoc the original Babel incident caused! God confused peoples’ languages, forcing them to disperse, teaching them that uniting behind evil is not uniting at all. What if it happened again? But this time, God determined the point at which the world was full of language. The last word would be the proverbialContinue reading “Today’s Babel”

Planting Abiding Seeds

It is almost time to decide which seeds to buy for our garden. I want to take my time in choosing because I almost always make mistakes. One year, I bought round zucchini seeds (Round zucchini are the worst kind of squash and only fit for pigs), and last year, I bought pole beans insteadContinue reading “Planting Abiding Seeds”

Lord of the Little Things

A friend gifted me a whole Bible’s worth of flannel figures so that I could use them to tell Bible stories. I am an old-fashioned Sunday School lady, and I love my flannel board. It is a Gospel tool that no screen will ever replace. As I was going through the billions of flannel figures,Continue reading “Lord of the Little Things”

Beginning and End

“Nothing could ever matter again but the things that were eternal,” missionary Amy Carmichael’s words floated over the heads of the little girls gathered together in the church. I was telling Amy’s story of leaving her family and home to travel to India to share the Good News of Jesus. The girls from my neighborhoodContinue reading “Beginning and End”