Not long ago, I had a conversation with a lady in her 70s, who is suffering from depression because one of her daughters is absent from her life. This daughter is alive and well, but she chooses not to participate in her mother’s life, even though she lives close. Almost every time I talk to this mother, the conversation turns to the pain and suffering that she is experiencing with her daughter’s absence. And every single time, my advice to my friend is the same. “You cannot help other Continue Reading
Bound… By Legalism
It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore, keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. Galatians 5:1 She watched the bird land on the lawn chair several mornings in a row. She would grab her cup of coffee and watch it from the kitchen window. It sang the most beautiful songs, as the morning sun bathed its blue feathers. One day, she had an idea. She bought a beautiful cage, opened the door and lay some luring bird seed inside. She watched as her Continue Reading
Proclaiming Our Faith to the Next Generation {Atlanta Journal Constitution}
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, together with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England. His literary works greatly influenced both English and American literature in the beginning of the 19th century. The son of the well-respected Rev. John Coleridge, Samuel became known in the Victorian period as one of the most important apologists for the liberal Anglican point of view. Although Coleridge himself Continue Reading
Heart Shift: Could Your Heart be Moving Away From God’s?
For thus says the Lord, ‘When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill My good word to you, to bring you back to this place. For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.’ Jeremiah 29:10-13 (NASB) The theme for the weekend Continue Reading
Who Is Really In Control of This Election? {Column for the Atlanta Journal Constitution}
Fear and pessimism seem to be permeating the Presidential Election this year. As a matter of fact, I was sitting at church this past Sunday, listening to some of the conversations, when an amusing thought crossed my mind. I told my husband later that afternoon: “If we could breed Chicken Little and Eeyore, we would come up with an offspring that resembles the demeanor of many believers who fill our church pews every Sunday.” “The sky is falling and everything is really, really bad.” That Continue Reading
He Gives Rain… In Due Season
If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out, then I shall give you rains in their season, so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will bear their fruit. Indeed, your threshing will last for you until grape gathering, and grape gathering will last until sowing time. (Leviticus 26:3-5 – emphasis added) The land was vast, and yet, seemingly desolate. A desert of sorts, the people knew that, unlike the Egyptians who had the fertile Nile Continue Reading
