Remember to make the most of Advent

As I was thinking about what to write for my newsletter article I did a little internet search and found this. I thought it was very appropriate to share at this time of year and is a good reminder to us all. Let us let this Advent season be one that points us to theContinue reading “Remember to make the most of Advent”

Read the Bible

Now you have observed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, my persecutions and suffering the things that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. Indeed, all who want to live aContinue reading “Read the Bible”

keep my words…

Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father ‘s who sentContinue reading “keep my words…”

Oh how I sometimes cringe when I read the Bible…

The Holy Word of God is our compass and a guide to help us through the days. I do long each morning to read and be in the word. To hear what my daddy has for me for the day – to get through and to have the wisdom that He wants to impart toContinue reading “Oh how I sometimes cringe when I read the Bible…”

Why do we read the Bible?

I just finished a book called Reading the Bible For All The Wrong Reasons. It was an interesting book on why we read the Bible and how many of us use the Bible for abuse rather than to build each other up. By abuse we use the Bible to support those things we already believe.Continue reading “Why do we read the Bible?”

What have you read

Today’s gospel lesson has the Sadducees trying to trap Jesus. You see they do not believe in the resurrection of the dead so asking if a man dies and leaves a childless wife then she marries the dead man’s brother and on and on until the all die, so whose wife is she in theContinue reading “What have you read”

Rules…

Have you ever had a moment in life where there are no rules? There probably isn’t a time in your life you didn’t have rules of some sort. And you always felt repressed by these rule probably. Even if they were meant to keep you safe, or protect you from something.  Like I remember myContinue reading “Rules…”