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How do we prepare ourselves in times of uncertainty? Today we discuss our response to difficulties.

Let us continue our observations from Hebrews 12 concerning our attitude toward the life’s hardships.

How do we prepare ourselves in times of uncertainty? I believe Scripture gives us guidance to help us in turbulent times.

Jesus’ resurrection from the dead was more than a one-time event; the music does not end with His resurrection. There is a coda—we shall live also!

I have been amazed at how many times Jesus told the disciples He was going to die and then rise from the dead. But they didn’t get it, so the disciples were unprepared for what happened.

Sitting alone on Easter Sunday night, I replayed in my mind the events of Easter weekend. I asked myself, what parts of this Easter do I want to carry in my heart?

Have you ever thought of the emotional roller-coaster the disciples rode during the week between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday morning?

Are you a 21st century woman who can be trusted with the gospel message?

Mary of Nazareth – A Spirit-filled Woman

Phoebe of Cenchrea – A Helper of Many

Hannah, a Woman of Prayer

And Martha Served

She Did What She Could

Our Practice of Good Stewardship

God's Promise of Provision

Principles of Christian Economics

Jesus - King of Kings and Lord of Lords

Jesus - The Wrathful Lamb

Jesus - The Worthy Lamb

The Book of Revelation contains pictures of what Jesus will be like when He comes again.

Anyone as old as I am will remember autograph albums. My childhood friends and I collected messages from our friends in the little 4- by 5-inch books as eagerly as today's kids collect friends on Facebook.

Words intrigue me. They create images, evoke sensations and convey messages. They are our tools for understanding and relating to each other and our world.

Simeon and Anna

Mary and Joseph

Elizabeth and Mary

Zechariah and Elizabeth

Thankfulness, the apex of prayer

Prayer Accompanied by Action

The Fulfillment of the Promise-Restoration

The Fulfillment of the Word-God Hears Our Prayer

The Conditions of the Promise

The Power of the Name

The Choice of the Chosen

What Brings You Joy?

What is Your Purpose in Life?

What is Your Prayer?

What is in Your Mind?

What is in Your Heart?

Hoe Your Own Row

What Can't be Helped Has to be Endured

You Don't Get Up to Read

Anything Worth Doing At All is Worth Doing Well

Seeing Jesus as the Rock

Seeing Jesus as Eternal King and Priest

Seeing Jesus as the Obedient Servant

Seeing Jesus as the Great Shepherd

Seeing Jesus as the Good Shepherd

Seeing Jesus as the Crucified Christ

Seeing Jesus as the Resurrected Lord

Seeing Jesus as the Coming King

Bitter cold circumstances may surround you, but your heart can be warm because you know spring will come.

When we truly encounter the Lord, our lives are changed.

Lately I find myself waking up at night praying “Lord, have mercy on us.”

What steps are you taking to pass on your legacy of faith?

Biblical genealogies always amaze me.

God's love endures through passing years.

Which God will we serve: the god of the public or the God of the Bible?

We have forgiveness because of His Son, and also—because of Him—we can forgive others.

Christianity is not only something to live by; it gives hope beyond the grave.

What lessons are you learning from your personal pain?

Complex problems call us to prayer every day in the ministry.

March 3 is an ordinary day for you, but for me, a very significant day.

A Prayer of Ronald Reagan

A Prayer of Thomas Jefferson

The Prayers of John Adams and Abraham Lincoln

Washington's Prayer for the Nation

How Do I Respond to His Love?

Does God Know Where I Am?

Glimpsing the immensity of space gives an awareness of how small human beings are.

Starting a New Year gives opportunity to review our lives and make changes as needed.

As we begin a new year, let us take a firm grip on the hand of the One who promised to be with us always.

As a special Christmas greeting to you, we are posting the introductory stanzas from 17th century poet John Milton’s well-known Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity.

The Gift Wrapped in Golden Memories

The Gift Wrapped in Sorrow and Sadness

The Gift Wrapped in Tradition

Mary's Song of Praise

Hannah's Song of Praise for Answered Prayer

Deborah’s Song of Victory

Miriam’s Song of Deliverance

Celebration is appropriate for Christians; we just want to be sure our celebrations make sense.

Life is much like driving through a strange city. We approach intersections and need to make choices.

God said all of us frumpy, lumpy, dumpy and even grumpy people can be sanctuaries of His presence.

The Bible does not define or defend God, it simply declares His existence. The more we know of Him, the more we stand in awe of His majesty.

If God did not create man, as Genesis teaches, the only explanation of a divine being is that man imaginatively created the kind of god he needed when he needed one.

“School days, school days, dear old Golden Rule days…”

Sooner or later, when students return to school, they will be faced with the issue of beginnings.

Rest is promised by Jesus to anyone willing to take three steps.

Labor Day and Memorial Day are bookends of summer for many people. The two holidays are often spent relaxing with families in some manner, with little thought of why the special day was designated.

Night Songs and The Love of God

Random Ramblings

David at Ziklag

Journaling has always intrigued me. Those little clothbound books with blank pages shout to me from the shelves in the store.

How things change, we say as we use our forks without thinking about them. It took 60 years for forks to come into common usage in England, but change surrounds us everyday, particularly since the introduction of advanced technology.

Freedom to Serve

Freedom from Self

Freedom from Sin

The Liberty of Law

Just Keep on Walking

Sitting Out a Storm

Absorbing the Panoramic View

Gazing at the Heavens

For most people Memorial Day marks the first long week-end of summer, a time of transition from the routine school year to vacation fun.

Waiting for the Spirit’s Coming (then)

Joy in the Meantime

Jesus’ Last Words

A Renewed Relationship

The First Easter Evening

Broken Dreams, Blind Eyes and Burning Hearts

Without doubt, Easter is the high point of the Christian year. Nothing compares with the joy of Christ’s resurrection. It is right that we celebrate it annually.

Martha of Bethany - A life of service

Mary of Bethany - A life of devotion to Christ

Mary of Magdala - A Life Changed By the Power of God

Mary of Nazareth—A life of submission

Agape – Love with Pierced Feet

Friendship: Love in Flip-Flops and Hiking Boots

Romance – Love in Glass Slippers

Affection – Love in Old Shoes

“What the World Needs is Jesus…”

Community in Crisis

Family Circle or Family Circus—Prayer may make the difference!

“If Momma Ain’t Happy….”

By the time the New Year makes its 24-hour trek around the world, people will have observed its coming in different ways.

Wise Men Call Him King

To Shepherds He is the Savior, Christ the Lord

The Prophet Calls Him “Immanuel”

Angels Call Him “Jesus;” Elizabeth Calls Him “Lord”

The word used for “heal” in this verse is rapha’, a root meaning to “mend by sewing, or figuratively to make whole.”

Are you sometimes passive in listening to your children because of preoccupation?

Humility, praying, and seeking God’s face are to no avail if there is not a turning away from sin.

The emphasis today is on seeking God, a phrase taken from the Hebrew word baqash meaning “to search out” or “to strive after.”

Prayer is a word used frequently in our culture with widely different meanings.

All through the Bible humility is required of those who walk with God (Micah 6:8; 1 Peter 5:5).

The chosen people of God are identified in this verse as the ones called by the Name of the Lord. You can trace the usage of the Name of the Lord in the Old Testament and see it is used as a expression of His person.

This is probably the most-quoted verse during times of spiritual renewal. The opening phrase, If my people, presents the choice set before God’s chosen people.

Many people will acknowledge Jesus as a good man. People of faith believe He was the Son of God. The Bible clearly substantiates their position of faith.

In the opening chapter of his Gospel, John refers to Jesus by many names, but Jesus called himself the “Son of Man.”

John wrote his Gospel to convince people Jesus was the promised Messiah. This theme is affirmed by stories in the narrative.

John continued picturing Jesus as the Lamb in the Book of Revelation. Each presentation gives us more information about Him.

John challenged his listeners to “Behold, the Lamb!” Other writers also employ this figure of speech in describing the Messiah.

“Look, the Lamb of God.” John the Baptist thundered these bold words as people gathered before him. The message was plain.

“Who sinned,” they asked, “this man or his parents?” Jesus stretched their thinking by offering another possibility.

John adds another stroke of the brush to the picture he paints of Jesus: He is the Light.

Throughout the Gospel of John, we become acquainted with Jesus the Life-giver as we observe Him in action.

John’s stated purpose for writing is that his readers might believe in Jesus and consequently have life through His name. The theme of Christ, the Life, is woven consistently throughout the Gospel like a golden thread in a tapestry.

In his gospel, John first introduces Jesus as the eternal Word of God who became flesh. This picture of Jesus reveals Him as a participant in creation.

John opens his Gospel by presenting Jesus as the Living Word of God. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”