2 Corinthians 5:7  (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) I'm tired of seeing and hearing people put forth the idea that "God only...

A lot of bad behavior and wickedness gets overlooked in the name of the false "kindness" practiced by our present world. Because o...

Ecclesiastes 1:17-18   And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. ...

Even in the midst of our sorrows and struggles, God is still love. His love is everlasting. His love is the greatest love. It is the most po...

  If I cannot in happiness take the second place (or the twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my unworth...

  When my husband and I got married my health was actually worse than it is now in some ways. There were times when I struggled so much just...

All By Himself A friend once sent me a link to a song. I don't remember what the song was, but something the singer said before she star...

Years ago when my dad was a young pastor he had a situation where an older man left the church. My dad was upset by this because this older ...

Here are some short thoughts over at The Home Maker's Corner on spiritual warfare to remind us to be sober minded, to resist the devil, ...

In this life some things are "keepers" and some things are not. We run across things all the time that are not worth keeping in th...

  Twenty Years of Pain... and Thankfulness by Martha Snell Nicholson [lightly edited] I am looking back over more than twenty ...

Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength. - Dwight L. Moody - God does not need your strength: he has more than e...

The Brightening Path of Pain by Martha Snell Nicholson [lightly edited] Everyone needs to work in order to remain normal, and it is such a c...

Photo taken near Kingston, Tenn. I think pretty much all of us have experienced the difficulties, dramas, and sorrows of the last couple yea...

  Psalms 91:2-4   I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver thee from...

One of the weird things about grief is how it ebbs and flows. It ebbs and we think that it's lessening and now things will be better and...

  "A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others." Jane Austen Colossians 4:5...

  2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become ...

  Ecclesiastes 9:17 The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.  Psalm 4:4-5 Stand in aw...

Today I am sharing a short, but cheering, thought related to the power of the resurrection and the Lord's ability to change facts wi...