This Week In The Word
Key Thoughts and Key Scriptures to Energize Your Life
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…
Read This Week's PostChristmas 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…
Read This Week's PostI 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…
Read This Week's PostThere 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…
Read This Week's PostI 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…
Read This Week's PostWhen 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…
Read This Week's PostThere 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…
Read This Week's PostGrowing 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…
Read This Week's PostSome 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…
Read This Week's PostI 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…
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