All Articles by Patricia Holbrook

Passage: Ephesians 2: 11-19 Click on the link for the passage http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ephesians%202:11-19&version=NLT Key Verse: “So now you Gentiles are no longer strangers and foreigners. You are citizens along with all of God’s holy people. You are members of God’s family” V. 19 (NLT) On September 6, 2005 my husband, our daughter and I drove to the local Immigration Office for my citizenship ceremony. After almost six years of paperwork, waiting and quite a bit of Continue Reading

Passage: Jeremiah 17:5-10 Key Verse: “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” (v.9- NASB) My heart has been broken numerous times. I know that this is true to most everyone. As long as your heart is beating, it is a fact that it will be broken at some point in time. Friends come and go, loved ones leave our lives. Promises are broken, lies are told and dreams are shattered. I’ve felt sick to my bones with the pain of separation, loneliness, betrayal. I Continue Reading

Passage: Luke 11:5-13 Key verse: "If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?" (v.13) KJV When I was a little girl, I waited for a very special gift for many years. I was about six years old when I started asking my dad for a piano. I started playing it when I was just five and it quickly became a passion. I would go to piano lessons twice every week and remember vividly how, for Continue Reading

Passage: Luke 11:1-13 Key verse: “Now it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.” (NKJV) A story is told about the great English Christian Poet and Philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge on his biography: It was shortly before Coleridge’s death and he was talking to his biographer about the Lord’s Prayer in Luke 11. He said: I have no difficulty as to forgiveness (…) Continue Reading

Passage: Luke 10:38-42 Key verses: But the Lord answered and said to her, "Martha, Martha, you are worried and bothered about so many things; but only one thing is necessary; for Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her." (V.41, 42) (NASB) I am running around the house with my Bluetooth on my ear, talking to my mom on the other side of the hemisphere, while putting some clothes in the washing machine. It’s 6:00 pm and I just got home from a full day at the Continue Reading

“Now the angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim And he said, " I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land which I have sworn to your fathers; and I said, 'I will never break My covenant with you, and as for you, you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall tear down their altars. But you have not obeyed Me; what is this you have done? “ Judges 2:1-3I remember just the other day, my 4 year-old disobeyed me. Again. When I confronted her about it, Continue Reading