• What Can You Do For God?

    Do you feel stuck and like you can’t do anything for God? I want to encourage you with something I recently shared with my Bible study girls a few weeks ago. Working on the Sidelines In January of this year I had the amazing privileged to join a medical team traveling to Honduras to help the physical and ultimately the spiritual needs of a small community. My husband is a doctor, but I am a teacher and currently just stay at…

  • How to Write Out the Bible

    My engagement ring taught me why writing scripture is vital to Bible study. When my husband was shopping for engagement rings he traveled to various jewelers around town looking for the “one.” I had given him one request. I wanted a certain cut called a “radiant cut.” The diamond was square shaped, but if you looked very closely you could see a round center. He had to shop smaller, specialized jewelers to find it. The cut was the only thing…

  • What If We Took God At His Word?

      On the first day of spring it snowed. Welcome to the Appalachian mountains. West Virginia holds four fluid seasons, but I’m ready for spring. Saying goodbye to winter with its cold, dark nights, and germs. Winter has been long this year. Not necessarily super cold or lots and lots of snow, but it seems like it started early in October and now into the later part of March we are shoveling the white stuff off of our driveway again….

  • When We Long for Springtime

    Snow is in our forecast this coming weekend. Driving through the dark, city streets on our bi-monthly date night I pondered the cold winter months. We are moving to Honduras soon. In fact, while I’m typing this we’ve been back in the States for three days after a week-long trip. I miss the warm weather – even if it did rain. The warm weather does a heart good, doesn’t it? Living in an area where we get all four seasons…