“When Memory Calls”
By: Susan Noyes Anderson When memory calls out to me, I open up life’s book and turn the pages backward for a long and lovely look. The tome, grown heavy in my hands with mostly welcome weight, pushes and pulls…
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“The Promises of God to His people!”
A promise from God is a statement we can depend on with absolute confidence. Here are 12 promises for the Christian to claim. God’s presence — “I will never leave thee” (Heb. 13:5) God’s protection — “I am thy shield”…
“God’s Masterpiece is Mother”
By: Herbert Farnham God took pieces of everything wonderful to make moms. God took the fragrance of a flower…The majesty of a tree…The gentleness of morning dew…The calm of a quiet sea…The beauty of the twilight hour…The soul of a…
“Judgement Day”
“The time was the 19th of May 1780. The place was Hartford, Connecticut. The day has gone down in New England history as a terrible foretaste of Judgment Day. For at noon the skies turned from blue to gray and…
A Mark of Mercy
Our text this week is Genesis 4, and I’d like to share this poetic retelling of Yahweh confronting Cain after he killed his brother, Abel. Consider Yahweh’s relentless mercy! The cursed ground blushed, drunk from Abel’s lifeblood, As Cain, still…
“Then I will be good!”
When Queen Victoria was a child, she didn’t know she was in line for the throne of England. Her instructors, trying to prepare her for the future, were frustrated because they couldn’t motivate her. She just didn’t take her studies…
What Is a Woman?
Many of our politicians and psychologists are unwilling to answer this simple question. We hear them dance around the issue with frustrating ambiguity, even using circular reasoning. “I’m not a biologist,” some say, or “A woman is a person…
THE RELIABILITY OF THE BIBLE
“For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty. For He received from God the Father honor and glory…
Defining Moments: “Substitute”
In 1 Samuel 17:4, the Philistine giant, Goliath, is called “a champion”, translating two Hebrew words that literally mean “a man in the space between”. This concept is vitally important in the Bible because it foreshadows Jesus standing as…
A Good Name
This last week I was contacted by a lady who wished to use my name as a reference on a job application. I made sure she knew that she could without hesitation from me. As I thought about that conversation,…