How to Persevere When Life is Hard

Bible Study Tools, Devotional, Faith, Motherhood, Prayer

How do we have a perfect faith? And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 1:5-8 (KJV) The ingredients are faith, virtue, knowledge, self-control, patience…. Patience….

Seven Truths When You Are Drowning in Sadness

Bible Study Tools, Faith, Free Resources, Prayer

A few weeks ago I had a dream. I was walking along a path. On the right side was the mud-filled river. Slowly weaving its path to the sea. The ground beside the water was muddy and wet. As I walked along and I looked to my left. It was filled with broken down shells of houses. The houses were made of concrete and some had doors, others had none. I walked passed almost a hundred houses. The windows were all broken…

Why a Local Bible Study is the Best Way to Connect

Bible Study Tools, Faith, Free Resources, Friendship, Prayer

On Thursday afternoons my mom would pile all of us kids into the van and drive fifteen minutes to the North side of Charleston. We would all jump out of the car and run up the concrete steps. I can still see the big blue steel door and smell the mixture of chalk and sweat as we walked into the gymnastic’s building. Every Thursday the homeschooling group in our area gathered we could take gymnastics lesson. The little kids were first….

God is Our Ultimate Joy and Salvation – Psalm 16

Bible Study Tools, Devotional, Faith, Prayer, Psalm

Psalm 16 1 Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge. 2 I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;     I have no good apart from you.” 3 As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones,     in whom is all my delight. 4 The sorrows of those who run after another god shall multiply;     their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out     or take their names on my lips. 5 The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup;     you hold my lot. 6 The lines have…