Recently my morning studies had me reading in Jeremiah 29.  When I was reading, I zeroed in on verses 4-14 and want to share my thoughts about those verses with you. “This is what the Lord All-Powerful, the God of the people of Israel, says to all the people he sent into captivity from Jerusalem … Continue reading Good Plans →

“Do you not know that in a race all the runners run [their very best to win], but only one receives the prize? Run [your race] in such a way that you may seize the prize and make it yours!”  (1 Corinthians 9:24 AMP) “To win the contest you must deny yourselves many things that … Continue reading Running The Race →

Jeremiah was one of the great prophets in the Old Testament.  God called him when he was about 17 years old and he preached for 40 years.  The nation of Israel had fallen into such sin that God allowed 10 of the 12 tribes to be taken into captivity.  Then he sent Jeremiah to preach … Continue reading Our Share of the Responsibility →

When people are young and thinking about what they want to be when they grow up, they think about things like a teacher, an astronaut, a fireman, a policeman, the President, a Mom, etc.  Have you ever heard anyone say that what they want to be is a servant? I think that most everyone thinks … Continue reading Up or Down? →

Several days this week my devotionals were based on Acts 4:23–31.  The titles of those devotionals were:  The Necessity of Prayer; The Vision of Prayer; The Priority of Prayer; The Agenda of Prayer; and, The Power of Prayer.  Chris Tiegreen is the author of the daily devotional books I read each year and I just … Continue reading Where Our Power Lies →

Last week I wrote about how we all have secrets that we’d like to forget - secrets that we should forget - secrets that we can forget.  This week I read some passages that brought the idea of secrets to the forefront again - but, when I read this particular passage - I had to … Continue reading More Secrets →

I seriously doubt if there is anyone among us that don’t have secrets we would prefer to keep buried in the past.  Sins, that when they pop into our minds we’re embarrassed and/or ashamed. Each day when I have my prayer time, I always start off with praises for the good things in my life.  … Continue reading Secrets →

I looked up the definition of the word “attitude”, and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary has a long list of definitions - some of them I had no clue about, but that are totally unrelated to what I had assumed the word meant.  I found these particular ones interesting though: “a mental position with regard to a … Continue reading Have You Got Attitude? →

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”  Catherine of Siena It is so easy to just go about our daily lives, not really considering everything that we are seeing and hearing - no big deal, it’s just life, right?  But what we see and hear affects our thoughts - and our thoughts affect our … Continue reading What Are You Thinking? →

(Scripture reference from NIV) I began this journey of writing a weekly blog in 2018 and this article was the first Father’s Day message I wrote back in 2019.       Today we celebrate Father’s Day.  Sonora Dodd first suggested this celebration in 1909 in Spokane, Washington.  Her Civil War veteran father had reared 6 children as … Continue reading The Apple of His Eye →