This Week In The Word

It’s the same every year, isn’t it? As Christmas draws near, we struggle to maintain our focus on the Lord and the true meaning of the season. We find ourselves longing for the peaceful Christmas-card version of the holidays! But if you think about it…

Christmas traditions are different the world over, aren’t they? In Africa for example, where I grew up, we didn’t decorate the outside of our homes as they do in America; but inside was an entirely different matter! We had a…

I have said before that following Christ is a walk of faith and there will certainly be times when we don’t understand why God would have us take the path that He does. There is…

There have been times in my life when God hasn’t made total sense when He has either allowed something to happen or said something in His Word that I’ve found difficult to understand. Scripture tells…

I have discovered that many people try to win God’s favor by what they do. They believe that if they’re a good enough person, then surely the scales will go in their favor and God…

When we lived in Africa my husband planted a grapevine at the edge of our patio. He hoped the vine would grow up to the roof poles where it would not only produce clusters of…

There have been several times in my life when I’ve stepped out in obedience to the Lord, acting on something I believed He has said to me, only to have things occur that I really…

Growing up I was taught that you must work hard for everything you get in life; and while that is often true, I have come to realize that it is not always so. The Bible…

Some of the doors God opens are surprising to me. I regularly visit the men in a maximum-security prison a few hours away from my home, where I am able to share from God’s Word…

I only began to follow Christ in my 20’s. Up until then, I’d lived a life that was very far from the Lord and I’d done things I was not proud of, but after giving…