I am a nurse. What comes to your mind when you hear that word? Nurse. Caring, kind, compassionate, empathetic, selfless? Most people would describe us using those terms. Over the past couple of months I have been stuggling with fulfilling that ideal. How can I have empathy when I see the same people week after [...]
My last post was not intended to be a biblical expose on tithing. I am very well aware that there are many beliefs on tithing and I was not trying to make anyone else tithe or even make them believe the way I do. I appreciate the comments, but really they made me feel very [...]
Yesterday in Church I heard a really good teaching on Tithe. When I hear the word “tithe” I think of money; usually of some church asking for it. But tithing is giving our FIRST-FRUITS. It is giving the first of everything in faith even though we don’t know what is coming next. In the Bible, it was the [...]
In Acts 16:16-40, Paul and Silas were wrongly humiliated, severely beaten and then thrown into prison. Somehow, they found the strength to offer a sacrifice of praise to God. I can only imagine what I would want to do: curl up into a ball and ask God why He allowed me to fail and why [...]
I picked up this book at a yard sale called, “Loving God” by Chuck Colson. I really like this author (Nixon’s former Hatchet Man) because he hasn’t always lived a Christian life so he has his head more in reality than many people who have never NOT been a Christian. Anyway, this book, although written [...]