By Jen Allee My prayer life reached a whole new level recently, by being reduced to one word: Please. I’ve said please before, but my heart hasn’t always matched its actual definition. Please is an adverb meaning “a polite addition…
In our weekly Bible study at my church we are currently studying Paul’s letter to the Galatians. It is instruction about the grace of God and a warning not to get caught up in legalism. The believers in Galatia had…
Don’t you love how the Word of God ~ like His compassion/lovingkindness ~ is new every morning? (Lamentations 3:22-23) Don’t you love it when we read something very familiar and then out of the blue, it seems, the Holy Spirit…
Let me warn you that it’s long and meandering and doesn’t have a tidy ending. I have to also preface it with this: I’ve been unsure of the right timing or way to share these thoughts, because there are so…
This year my youngest child will be fifty-seven. He is a strong and caring man of many concerns and responsibilities. Yet, when I look at him, there is still a picture in the back of my mind of a mischievous,…