Share You are in Good Company! By Don Doran / last year Good morning! It is a beautiful day to praise the Lord. Many times we seek instant gratification. We want results now! We are a microwave society and want all of our benefits right here and now. However, again, God does things differently than we do and He does it in His own time. Most of […]
Share Impatience Will Always Birth An Ishmael By Susan Niswonger / last year Gr’ma, Gr’ma, Gr’ma, GR’MA!!!! Caleb’s impatience was coming through. I had promised him that we would go downstairs and play after I put Baby Nathan down for his morning nap. Caleb has the patience of a 3 year old and although he may understand the word “later,” later occurs to him much sooner than it […]
Share Five Hours at Water Gate By Phyllis Corbin / last year FIVE HOURS AT WATER GATE NEHEMIAH 7:73 – NEHEMIAH 8:1- 12 The end of Nehemiah 7 and the beginning of Chapter 8 is somewhat reminiscent of the spirit the Pilgrim Fathers must have had when their first harvest was reaped in Jamestown. They and their American Indian friends gathered for a great celebration that since […]
Share The Land Of Just Right By Susan Niswonger / last year Goldilocks was hungry, and there were three bowls of porridge and the story begins. She tasted Papa Bear’s porridge, but it was too hot, Mama Bear’s turned out to be too cold, but Baby Bear’s was JUST RIGHT, so she ate it all gone. Then Goldilocks set in Baby Bear’s JUST RIGHT chair until it […]
Share Whitened And Purified Through the Fire! By Michael Winskie / last year ” And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.” Daniel 11: 35 Are you in a time of trial? Do you ever think (because you would never dare to […]
Share When God doesn’t want us to know. By Michael Winskie / last year “And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed til the time of the end. Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried, but the wicked shall […]
Share It’s The Power Behind The Story!!! By Susan Niswonger / last year Every year, after Thanksgiving, the controversy begins. Should I say Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays? Is it Christmas Vacation or Winter Break? Can we sing Silent Night or should we stick with Jingle Bells for the School musical program? Should we chance setting up the Nativity Scene in front of the court house, a Christmas […]
Share Certain Death By Susan Niswonger / last year The nation has been consumed with Hurricane Ike for the last two days. For a few hours even politics and Sarah Palin reports were pre-empted. I was fascinated by the updates and progress reports. The forces of nature have a way of showing how helpless and vulnerable we are even with the latest technological advances. […]
Share My Blessing! By Debra Jones / last year My Blessing! Years ago, A prayer answered, “God, Please give me one child!” Then a Blessing from God, You are so precious, Jessi! a pretty baby girl, with a pretty smile, and those cute little red curls, you are my angel, sent just for me, I will never ever let you go, You are always […]
Share A Sure Thing! By Don Doran / last year Good morning! I hope your week is off to a great start and that you enjoyed your weekend. We are always looking for a “sure thing.” Something that we can know for certain is going to work to our benefit, but sadly enough there are few sure things in life. In fact one man said […]
