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This years Christmas card. For your enjoyment.
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Some days, like today, I feel empty. I still open my Bible, I still read– but I find myself flipping around, searching for something but I don’t even know what. My heart sits heavy in my chest. God, where do I read when all you have for me feels out of reach? This morning, all I could…
Not sure how much of a Christian you are (or want to be)? Worried about giving God a little too much? Take some advice from Pharaoh (Yep, that Pharaoh, who had a showdown with Moses and lost), and use these four simple alternatives to keep yourself from true worship. 1. Stay where you are. When Moses requested…
I woke up this morning to cold. After a beautiful day of seventy degree weather, snow piled back up at my door and freezing temperatures slipped back into my house. We fired up the wood cookstove and since the oven was warm and ready, I felt obligated to bake taco pie and pineapple upside-down cake….
Do you ever have moments of pure grace? I had one this evening when I stumbled upon something I had scratched into a notebook five years ago. It was like a bucket of water given to someone dying of thirst. ______________________________________________________________________ Judges 6:15 “But Lord,” Gideon replied, “how can I rescue Israel? My clan is the weakest…
We’re reading through I Corinthians in Bible Study on Sunday nights. Way back in the college days I studied it verse-by-verse. Now, with this whole group of brothers and sister in the faith, we are looking at it thought-by-thought and I’m loving it. There is a time and season for everything, and this is my…
Kids ask him the question quite often. Their little foreheads wrinkle up and their eyes narrow and they say, “Why haven’t you washed your hands?” He gives them all the same answer, his eyes twinkling a bit, “I did wash them but look,” he scrubs them hard together and then holds the blacken palms out…
This made me grin. Particularly the part about the cows in the barn. 😀 Happy New Year and thanks for being a part of YLCF!! 🙂