Share The Potters Wheel By Don Doran / a couple of years ago I have came across several things this morning that have me thinking about the potter and the clay. God spoke to Jeremiah and uses the potter as an example of God molding our lives. If you have ever watched a potter work with clay on a wheel it is amazing. I have had the opportunity […]
Share Knot in the Rope By Don Doran / a couple of years ago Knot in the Rope Have you ever felt you had come to the place where something has got to change? That your soul had to be rescued? “My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word. Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?” Ps 119:81-82 There are times […]
Share Who Gets the Spoils? By Don Doran / a couple of years ago Who Gets the Spoils? Good morning! It has been a while since I have visited with you and I have missed it. Have you heard the expression, “to the winner goes the spoils?” That means whoever wins gets the treasure. “Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy […]
Share Appetite for Righteousness By Don Doran / a couple of years ago I left home a week after my high school graduation to evangelize. My first venture for an extended time away. The first home I was in the pastor’s wife made a wonderful meal and one of the vegetables was squash. I did not like squash but remembered my father’s admonition, “If they cook it, you […]
Share Hurry!! There’s A Deadline! By Susan Niswonger / a couple of 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 Pressure Cooker Moments! By Don Doran / a couple of years ago Have you ever had one of those “pressure cooker moments.” What do you do when the pressure is on? What is your reaction or course of action? Do you change who you are? Do you buckle under the pressure? “Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies. I beheld […]
Share Potter’s House 2 By Don Doran / a couple of years ago I am not artsy by any stretch of the imagination. I might be considered a bit crafty, but never artsy. However, I do know this, anytime an artist begins a project he has a starting point. That starting point is in his mind. He begins to envision what it is he wants to create. He […]
Share Write a Message on the Bottom of Your Shoe! By Don Doran / a couple of years ago Several years ago, actually about 3 decades back, my wife and I were at a concert and a song was sang by the group that stuck in my mind. I was able to find the song online, let me share the words with you; You’re about to hear a truth that will loose you from […]
Share Give Him Your Burdens By Don Doran / a couple of years ago Have you ever had a load that was more than you could carry? You started out all right but along the way it just got heavier until you couldn’t go any further? My dad told me a story of when he was in the military. They were on a long march and being non-combatant he didn’t […]
Share We Get What We Give By Don Doran / a couple of years ago There is an old saying, “What you see is what you get!” However, Jesus said it differently, “What you give is what you get!” “Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.” Matt 5:7 If we are on the “hot seat” we are sure to want mercy. Yet the real question is how we act when someone […]
