A New Year

Here we are again. The beginning of a New Year. Do you ever feel grateful just to get to the next year? Are you in the process of making resolutions or choosing a word for the year? According to AI, resolutions were changed to one word for a fresh start to the year in...

Advent: A Devotional

This week is the beginning of Advent. I’ve heard of advent, and knew it involved lighting candles, but that has been about the extent of my knowledge. Last week in a women’s Bible study, we went through an Advent study with scripture reading and teaching...

Forgiving What You Can’t Forget (Review)

I have come to believe that everyone in life experiences pain in some form or another. None of us can escape, because we live in a fallen world that seems to be getting further and further away from God. We don’t run to our only source of Hope. We try to...

Advent

Until this year I have not really paid much attention to Advent. I would hear people talking about it, and I knew it had something to do with Christmas, but other than that, it just didn’t draw my interest. This year a friend sent me a John Piper book, The...

Daring to Hope

Having hope is very elusive to so many of us nowadays. Each way we turn, discouragement hits us in the face. But, there is always a flicker of hope within the ones who have invited God to reside within our hearts, as He adds just enough fuel to the small flame of hope...