When Things Get Personal…

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So I was reading John 8, and as I came to verse 14, God got my attention as a phrase just popped off the page to me!  Check it out… Jesus answered “…my testimony is valid,  for I know where I came from and where I am going.”   ~~John 8:14a~~ “I know where I came from and where I am going.”  … Read More

You Got a New Outfit!

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Something I read in David Platt’s book Follow Me set my mind to thinking.  His statement was: “The fruit of following Jesus is a new heart with a new mind, new desires,  a new will, a new way of relating to people around you, and a new purpose.” Well, I’ve been in the church long enough that I wasn’t surprised … Read More

When You Can’t Trust People Anymore…

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I was somewhere between wow and ouch as I was reading the Word this morning. I was reading in Genesis 26 as the Spirit began to speak, loud and clear. Check this out. There was a famine in the land where Isaac and Rebekah were living. God told Isaac to stay put –not to go to Egypt– and He promised … Read More

A Pleasing Aroma

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When I was a little girl, I remember every Sunday morning hearing my mom in the kitchen preparing a pot roast to go into the oven to slow cook while we were at church.  I remember hearing the tap, tap, tap of her feet on the wooden basement steps as she carried up the potatoes and onions that would find … Read More

A Conversation with God

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So, I was reading my Bible this morning.  In Jeremiah 32:39, this phrase really jumped off the page at me.   “I will give them SINGLENESS OF HEART AND ACTION. so that they will always fear me…”  In the passage, the disobedient and idolatrous nations of Israel and Judah were being exiled to Babylon as God’s wrath was being executed … Read More

The Feeding of the Five Thousand

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READ John 6:1-13 The feeding of the 5000 is a well-known story in the Gospels, but I have to wonder if we are so familiar with it that we lose some of the hidden gems to be found there.  Let’s slow down and really look at the different facets found here.   In John 6:10, Jesus said, “Have the people sit … Read More

Follow Me

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“Peter began to say to Him,  ‘Behold, we have left everything And have followed You’.” ~~Mark 10:28~~ Initial questions:  Do I understand what the Bible means by “left everything”? What does “following” look like with skin on? Backstory: a rich young ruler had asked Jesus, “Good Teacher, what shall I do so that I may inherit eternal life?”,  and Jesus … Read More

Another Rabbit Trail

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“The righteous will flourish like a palm tree; they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon” ~~Psalm 92:12~~ In my last blog, I followed a rabbit trail and shared a bit about my study of a palm tree.  I mean if I’m told in Scripture that I will flourish like a palm, I better know something about a palm, right?  … Read More

Rabbit Trails

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Well, I was studying in 1 Peter this morning, and let me tell you, I learned A LOT!  Thank you Lord!!  You know, it’s “funny” how as you study, you may sit down to search out a certain topic, or study a certain passage in depth, but God’s lesson plan is completely different.  That was the case for me today.   … Read More

He Didn’t Ask.

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READ 2 Chronicles 35. So as I read chapter 35 of 2 Chronicles this morning, I began picking up on certain phrases…“according to the instruction written by David king of Israel and by his son Solomon…” (v4), “doing what the Lord commanded through Moses…” (v6), “as the king had ordered…” (v10), “as it is written in the book of Moses…” … Read More