Valentines Day – Then and Now
...if your relationship has lasted for years, you know that the first attraction did not alone carry you through to your latest anniversary. How did you express your love yesterday? This morning?
...if your relationship has lasted for years, you know that the first attraction did not alone carry you through to your latest anniversary. How did you express your love yesterday? This morning?
The camp staff devotional "John Comes To Camp" is now being published on Kindle!
We need both kinds of revelation. We need to take in the written word of God while seeking for the Holy Spirit to speak to our hearts and bring revelation of how that word applies to us. We need daily revelation to know what God is showing us.
We have often worn ourselves to a frazzle with last minute shopping, decorating, parties, buying gifts—and yes, assembling toys at midnight on Christmas Eve. Looking in the mirror reminds us regretfully of the second helpings and the bigger-than-average slices of pecan pie and other temptations we indulged in “just this once.”
...our spiritual walk does not have to be up and down like a roller coaster. Instead it can be a journey in which we grow spiritually stronger day by day and year by year.
As we pray and trust God in difficult situations, we must wait for His timing.
Why not beat this political correctness to the punch and wish the store clerks a sincerely kind “Merry Christmas” before they can get their meaningless comments out?
David and his men returned home to find that their enemies had burned down their whole town. None of their possessions or members of their families were anywhere to be found. They were devastated and wept bitterly. Some of them even started to blame David and threatened to stone him to death.
People often have feelings of suspicion or nervousness when they know that someone is a Muslim. Avoidance only serves to deepen the rift between the two groups which are so different.
Rabbis teach that to eat beef and then drink milk would be like making a foundation of Judgment and then adding grace to it. Grace would strengthen the Judgment. This would make Judgment strong and harsh. But to first drink milk/grace would soften the impact of judgment/beef.