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
Busy Bees
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
Where the Rubber Meets the Road
“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
A Call to Righteousness
“I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there. I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her fertile fields and boundless forests, and it was not there. I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her rich mines and her vast world commerce, and it was not there. I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her public school system and her institutions of learning, and it was not there. I sought for Continue Reading
Miracle Babies
“For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome.” Jeremiah 29:11 (Amplified Bible)Babies are miracles from God. While all babies are indeed a miracle, some of us mothers understand this in a deeper level. I’m talking to women who have faced or are facing infertility, miscarriages, difficult pregnancies and medically impossible conceptions. I don’t pretend to understand the Continue Reading
He Led Me Into The Wilderness
“Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led around by the Spirit in the wilderness" Luke 4:1I’m in the process of doing what I call a “dissection study” of the Gospel of Luke. I love to take my time peeling off the layers of what the Bible says to find “hidden treasures” in the scriptures. Because the Bible is the Living Word, we know that we can read the same passage over and over again and, all of a sudden, something new is found in a familiar passage. That happened Continue Reading


