All Articles by Patricia Holbrook

The CD played my new favorite song as I drove to work that morning. It was the end of winter and the damp air outside kept the windshield misty with rain. Tears fell down my face as I worshiped Him through song. Just a couple of days before, I had been diagnosed with kidney cancer. Surgery had been scheduled for a few weeks away. Life as I knew it had changed with a doctor’s visit. Yet, as the song “Behold the Lamb” played on, my heart was filled with peace, gratitude and thanksgiving.   No, Continue Reading

Passage: Luke 17:5-6 Key Verse: “And the Lord said, ‘If you had faith like a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea’; and it would obey you.” V.6 (NASB) My entire family was glued to the TV that evening. I don’t remember exactly how old I was – probably about 10 or so. Uri Geller, a famous Jewish illusionist was on the screen, bending a spoon before our eyes by merely using his “brain power”. I was mystified. Not long after that, I started Continue Reading

“We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, so that what you hope for may be fully realized.” Hebrews 6:11 Blogging… Platform… Picture Words… Publishers… Book Proposals… Nerves. Words and feelings flowed freely for three days as women gathered in North Carolina at the She Speaks Conference 2013. We came from all over the country to learn how to better use our God-given talents as writers and speakers for the Kingdom. As we assembled to worship, hands lifted high Continue Reading

The sun is shining outside, my heart is beating, the air conditioning is keeping me cool in the heat of the summer. I open our refrigerator and there is food. As a matter of fact, more food than what we need. I’m rich. No, my 401K portfolio is not nearly close to what it needs to be for retirement; my children’s college savings plan looks pretty skimpy at the moment. Our van has more miles than the trail of tears and we have spent many vacation days around our hometown. Still, believe me, we are Continue Reading

  Passage: Isaiah 44:6-23Key Verse:“This is what the Lord says—   Israel’s King and Redeemer, the Lord Almighty: I am the first and I am the last;     apart from me there is no God.” V. 6 (NIV)In Greece they were called Apollo, Aphrodite, Ares, Artemis and Dionysus, to name a few. In Egypt, it all started with Atum, the first god to exist. Atum  coughed and spat out Shu, the god of the air, and Tefnut, the goodness of moisture. Following were countless gods and centennial dynasties of Egyptian Continue Reading