Do you find yourself making lists of ways you’re inadequate? Do you constantly put yourself down? There’s a simple solution: Stop it! Read this wonderful post on WordServe Water Cooler to learn more. http://wordservewatercooler.com/2014/12/19/two-words-of-advice-stop-it/
Thanks for the wonderful present
Word Press gave us a Christmas present: Word Press updated their dashboard so we can now access all our posts from one convenient location, whether we write one personal blog or publish multiples sites. Now we can quickly sort through published, scheduled, drafted, or even trash posts for one or all of our sites at… Read More
Warning: “There will be a lot of ‘super Christians’ there.”
A childless couple was traveling with a group of hopeful parents to Ethiopia to adopt–a culmination of their long struggle to have a child. A friend who had experienced this a few years earlier gave her this warning, “Be prepared–there will probably be a lot of super Christians in the group.” As Jillian Lauren tells the story her imagination… Read More
connecting the dots between then and now
This challenging article by John Eldridge was recently posted on Faith Gateway Daily Devotionals–Remember the Dragon: Christmas Is an Invasion. There are strong parallels between what is happening in the world today and what was happening when Christ was born. The horrible genocides that we are hearing in the news happened when Mary and Joseph… Read More
the practice of morality vs theoretical intelligence
What is more important: right conduct or right thinking? Your answer will depend in some part on the culture you were raised in. How you read and understand the Bible will also be greatly affected by your answer. In a research paper entitled “The Hebrew Mind vs the Western Mind,” Brian Knowles explores differences in Hebrew and Western thinking.*… Read More
because of rainbows
Recently I spoke at an event at the retirement village where my mother lives. I introduced the story found in my book Less Than a Widow and read a few pages. The disaster that fell on three women in the book–they suddenly and unexpectedly became widows–hit home to many in the audience who had experienced the same pain and emptiness at… Read More
evil is always waiting for decency to soften
I wasn’t ready for Monday after a busy weekend. I lay in bed playing games on my phone until I guilted myself into getting up, but preparations were slow and my mind was scattered. It was after 9 a.m. when I finally started my morning ablutions–with the radio on, as is my habit. I had missed my… Read More
Kathleen S Evenhouse 