Ever since I became a Christian it was my desire to reflect the character and image of God. I saw it was His desire too, for He said, “Be holy as I am holy”. Unfortunately, I failed miserably. Year after frustrating year I tried, but still saw very ugly fruit in my life.
Wouldn’t my constant reading and praying lead to obeying? It did not. No, something entirely different finally brought the transformation I desperately longed for. Continue reading
Ezekiel Bread…It’s my daily breakfast routine. There’s nothing that satisfies quite like it. No temptation to over-eat, no looking for something else to hit the spot. It simply satisfies, day after day after day. It seems pretty remarkable…until you read the book of Ezekiel.Continue reading
Today I’m joining others over at Emily Freeman’s for her monthly “Things I Learned” link up.
I discovered some things about my writing this month that I hadn’t realized. Not that I’ve taken time to do. much writing lately, and that’s because of another thing I learned.
Today I conclude the story that began with this Bible Identity Quiz . Take it before you read on and see if you get the answer. Here‘s the first part of the story where I began telling how I came to ‘identify’ and ‘identify with’ this uniquely favored woman of the Bible.
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The message is all around us…it’s heard from pulpits, written about in books, and voiced in song. Be like God.
The message is within us….a constant voice in our head, keeping us forever conscious.Continue reading
Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?”
They confronted Him with the truth…
they confronted Him with the Law.
Now they would see. Would He obey it?Continue reading
I have this tendency. I think we all do. I think more about goodness than grace, and it always leaves me feeling condemned, not clean…and my life reflects it. But shouldn’t thinking about the ‘shoulds’ make us more obedient? Well, that’s where we miss it.
We constantly miss it because…Continue reading
One of the greatest challenges of life is to be satisfied and peaceful in the midst of the ordinary, everyday routine of life. It seems we’re always looking for the extraordinary, as though our life doesn’t count for much unless something out of the ordinary is happening.
Two weeks ago when I posted the Bible Identity Quiz for Five Minute Friday I said I would reveal the answer to the quiz along with a personal story concerning the liberating truth I discovered from my Bible study encounter with this “she” of the Bible. Here’s the story…well, the beginning of it anyway.
As someone who likes to write I’ve always been fascinated by Baruch, the man spoken of in Jeremiah 36, who was given the job of writing on a scroll every word of prophetic warning the Lord had spoken through Jeremiah to His people concerning their impending judgment. I’m intrigued by this faithful scribe Baruch, but there’s more to the story…