Truth For The Heart
Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 2: Friday As I was reading through Isaiah 7–11, one thing I immediately noticed were the Messianic prophecies within these chapters: 7:14 (Matthew 1:23), 9:1–2 (Matthew 4:12–16), 9:6–7 (Luke 1:32–33) and 11:1–5 (Luke 1:32, Romans 15:12). These prophecies are mentioned within the context of God’s judgment on sin. […]
Read MoreYou may be wondering why I quote men who lived a century of more before us. It’s certainly not to bore you stiff! There are numerous reasons I could give you about why it’s worth the effort to read authors who use a different language style and unfamiliar words. I could say it’s because I […]
Read MoreThe Prodigal Son is probably the best known, and the best loved, of all of the parables told by Jesus. I think that’s because it tells the story of the kind of father we would all like to have. Some of us may have been blessed with a father similar to the one in the […]
Read MoreWe either stand before God as a guilty rebel under His judgment, or through faith in Christ, we stand clean before Him in joy and wonder.
Read MoreOn January 2, WordPress sent me a year-end summary. I did a double-take as I read it, because it listed Blessings as the top-viewed post. I have yet to figure out how the decision was made, because when I look at the stats page it’s not in the top ten. To make matters even more […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 1: Thursday Today’s reading is in the book of Job, chapters 1 and 2. When you read Job without having experienced lengthy suffering, you may read as if you’re looking through a window into someone else’s world. But when you read it in the midst of extensive and […]
Read MoreHave you been running away lately? Maybe not physically, but in your mind or emotions? Have things seemed overwhelming and you don’t know exactly how God is going to help you or deliver you? Are you thinking you just ought to give up? Or maybe at some point in the past perhaps you did give […]
Read MoreAs I was reading in the book of Joshua today, I thought of my children, and that led to thinking of how grateful I am to God for all the prayers He has answered regarding them. There were so many times I scrambled to understand how to be a mother, and I felt my failures […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 1: Tuesday Tuesday’s reading was Joshua 1–5. As I started to read, I thought that if you’re not familiar with Old Testament history, then you might want to use M’Cheyne’s reading plan in the right sidebar. It does mix readings from different books of the Bible, but it […]
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Kindling for Candles 