Share But I Don’t Want To Be Different! By Susan Niswonger / 4 years ago 1 Samuel 8 relates a time in Israel’s history when they had wandered from God’s plan for their life and decided they just didn’t want to be different anymore. Verse 4 begins, “Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah, 5And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and […]
Share God, Could You Speed Up The Perfecting? By Susan Niswonger / 4 years ago Once I learned how to read there was no stopping me. The library was only a couple of blocks from our house and in the summer, my brother and I would walk to it almost every day. I would check out a pile of books in the morning and bring them back that afternoon. This […]
Share What’s Good About The Church? By Susan Niswonger / 4 years ago Recently, Steve was talking with a man who wanted to change his life. He confessed that his attempt to change on his own wasn’t working; he could be good for a short time and then his desires would overwhelm his efforts. Steve, of course, began to tell him that being filled with the Holy Spirit […]
Share Affirmed, Approved and Validated By Susan Niswonger / 4 years ago I remember the first time I heard the word, Affirmed. We had opened a Christian bookstore in St. James, MN. The shelves were stocked with the latest inspirational books and cds and the card rack was loaded with greeting cards for every occasion imaginable. I began to notice that our best sellers were cards of […]
Share Praying For Our President By Susan Niswonger / 4 years ago I watched, with pride, the swearing in of our 44th president. I experienced pride in being a citizen of the greatest country on earth. Pride in a country that allows each person’s voice to be heard in the form of a vote without coercion and fear. Pride in the civility of the transfer of power […]
Share God Wants You To Succeed By Susan Niswonger / 4 years ago God wants you to succeed!!! Many Holy Ghost filled people live their lives in fear that God is just waiting to pull the rug out from under them or slap them upside the head at the slightest provocation. Lip service is given to God’s amazing grace and His infinite mercy but we seem to think […]
Share Enemies, Both Foreign & Domestic By Susan Niswonger / 4 years ago Today is July 4th, a wonderful holiday in the United States. Most people will celebrate it with cookouts and fireworks, watermelon and ice cream. It’s Independence Day!!!! As American’s, we fiercely defend our freedoms. We fence our yards, defend our rights in the highest courts and shed blood on foreign soil to preserve the freedom […]
Share Hurry!! There’s A Deadline! By Susan Niswonger / 4 years ago This morning as the fog was slowly replaced by conscious thought, I remembered something I had been meaning to get to all week. It suddenly hit me, I am a PROCRASTINATOR. According to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, a procrastinator is someone who intentionally puts off doing something that should be done. According to my daughter-in-law, Jenesa, “It’s […]
Share The Door Was Open, But You Didn’t Respond! By Susan Niswonger / 4 years ago The Door Was Open, But You Didn’t Respond! Last Saturday was one of those rare Michigan November days. The temperature hit the mid-sixties, t-shirts were the clothing of choice and although screens have been traded for glass, I just had to leave the door wide open to enjoy the sun. A friend dropped by […]
Share Ready To Give A Defense By Susan Niswonger / 4 years ago Have you ever been accused of being “defensive?” It seems that if one person makes a statement that violates your beliefs or values and you try to explain what you really believe or why that has become your core belief, the immediate response is, “Why are you being defensive?” My response is Offenses always make […]
