A Reading Plan for the Letters of Paul One of the best things I did last year was read and study ONE book of the Bible. I choose Philippians in the New Testament. I wish I could say I chose it for spiritual reasons. Nope. Just decided it was one of the shorter books of the Bible. Ok, I did choose it to because Philippians has my “life verse” in it: “Be anxious for nothing….” Philippians 4:6 I was reading…
40 of the Best Verses to Memorize Although 2020 isn’t continuing like I had planned. And let’s be honest. Maybe nothing you had planned is playing out as you might have foreseen. Life is like that, isn’t it? The constant change, cancelling, the unknown, the fear, and the hype isn’t new. When have we, as humans, had a worry-free life? It just seems with the news we all are worried about the same thing now. We gather together now and…
How to Know God Through the Psalms Do you know him? Who, I asked? President Bush, she replied. I giggled. We were on a mission’s trip to another country. A native asked me if I knew our president. She figured since I was an American I knew him. To her disappointment, I didn’t know the president the way she was implying. Our pastor was talking a few weeks ago about knowing God. Not just the head knowledge, but the heart…
Five Psalms of Security In the darkest of nights I laid on my bed and wondered. I sought to see if God would abandon me. Would I lose it? This salvation I had held onto since the age of eight, would it disappear in the cloud of sin, disappointment, and doubt surrounding me tonight? With the doubts, could He forgive my unbelief? Because of the sin, am I too unclean? The deepness of the depression felt too far, too dark,…