Preparing for Worship – Your Heart

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Life is hard and we grow weary. If we were to all be completely open and brutally honest there are just times in our life when we don’t feel like worshipping. We want to sleep in. The toddler is crabby and restless and trying to keep them quiet during yet another service is just exhausting. […]

Memory Verses for Children

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Here are some of my favorite memory verses for children. We start with these verses when our children are ready to memorize Scripture usually around age 4 or 5, though it is different with each child. We are passionate in our home about memory verses for children. I truly feel that if children grow up hiding […]

Seeing Christ in Christmas- Part 2

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Here is the next lesson in the Family Christmas Bible unit study. Christmas Lights – These little twinkling lights can often be overlooked as “just another Christmas decoration” but after this lesson your family will be reminded to “shine for Jesus” when they see them. Ways they can remind of Jesus – 1. They twinkle […]

Tomorrow.

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As I stood by the side of my friend and looked into the casket that held her young daughter, my breath caught in my throat. I just wanted to fall to the floor. It could be any of us. In a moment, life is over. Young. Old. Sick. Healthy. Troubled. Stable. Death comes to all […]

Community.

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  My little community has been rocked these past few months by a growing trend that no one saw coming. It isn’t drugs or rape or anything that can be countered in the physical realm of this world. It is suicide. It is a permenent solution to temporary problems as I have recently heard it […]

Finding a Thankful Spirit

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Are you struggling to be thankful this holiday season? Is your heart heavy as you see the events going on in the world? Finding peace and thankfulness is hard in the hard times that many are facing this year. But there is a way, that with a little effort, we can find a thankful spirit. […]

Growing Deeper Roots – Bible Reading – Post #4

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This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. Joshua 1:8 Life is […]

Growing Deeper Roots – Fellowship

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Do not be slothful in zeal, Y)”>be fervent in spirit, Z)”>serve the Lord. 12 AA)”>Rejoice in hope, AB)”>be patient in tribulation, AC)”>be constant in prayer. 13 AD)”>Contribute to the needs of the saints and AE)”>seek to show hospitality. 14 AF)”>Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. 15 AG)”>Rejoice with those who […]