Reunion Time

Reunions are generally a time to reconnect with people and places of our past. There are people we are elated to see, and there are people we may dread seeing. Let that truth stir in your heart as you reflect on your last family reunion. Perhaps there are those we need to forgive. Our Father…

Wise Words

I love my books and my special book nook, a terraza full of the trustworthy Word of God. As a wordy woman, I fascinate in what was written. Exodus 31:18 “When the Lord finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the covenant law, the tablets of stone inscribed…

Griddle Time

Our Blackstone Griddle arrived in July 2023. We did our homework before we fired up the new BARBIE The proper seasoning takes over hour, so for a new griddle, we need a large full butane container. VERY IMPORTANT to NOT use bacon or animal fat to season the griddle because cracking will occur. Learning is…

Finishing Last

WHAT? “The last will be first?” One commentary on that shocking statement by Jesus…to His disciples… explains that He was casting a hope about their astonishing eternal future. They heard about great REWARDS for anyone who fully commits to following Him through trials, tests and persecution. (Matthew 19:28–29) Jesus concludes His promise with a puzzling…

Big Idea

“What’s the big idea?” For today, let us consider that through the new CUT covenant with God, that our Father forgives His people and empowers us to KNOW Him. According to custom, a covenant or a promise to fulfill an agreement always included a blood sacrifice. Can Jews or Gentiles escape the need of a…

Dwell in Grace

We all have a beef about something not going according to our way, our plan, or our set of beliefs. We all have rituals that were born out of how we were raised. Our customary way of thinking and believing becomes a religious habit. We get up on the same side of the bed, some…

AMOS

Eight hundred years before the birth of Jesus, God called a very busy man out of his field while he still had a shepherd’s crook in his hand.  Although Amos was just a rugged worker and formally uneducated, he received divine training directly from God while tending a herd of sheep in the wild uplands…

Behind the Curtain

What is behind the curtain? May we come to personally experience, to taste and see and know the truth of the Holy of holies? At the moment Jesus said from the cross “It is finished” The temple curtain was torn to give ALL direct access to the love and Mercy Seat of God. What makes…

Bible Based

The best way to live and to think — is based on what the Bible says. “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.” Jeremiah 31:3 NIV Our Father is not patient, kind and faithful to respond to our crys because we deserve it, He loves us because…