December 23, 2020
Quiet Joy
If we could feel the quiet joy that Mary felt that night, We'd celebrate Your coming in a new and different light. Breathe calm into our frantic rush, help us Your peace to know.
Read more..Thoughts By Marilyn Ehle
December 13, 2020
Reason(s) for the Season
What new reasons for the season can we offer? What new work of God is happening in our lives? What new truths from the Bible are becoming reality?
Read more..December 7, 2020
The Mingling of Joy and Sorrow
The story of Christmas is one of beauty - and also of impending sorrow. We easily forget that the child of the manger grew up to be the man of the cross. It is at times like this we are reminded to not neglect either aspect of the story.
Read more..October 27, 2020
Quit Time
Has your Quiet Time become a Quit Time? Becoming quiet is not easy. It takes practice and discipline to repeatedly bow before the Lord.
Read more..October 9, 2020
Give Jesus Your Boat
Master, help us give up our boats which are really only symbols of our own accomplishment. Help us trust you with all that we have and are and then expectantly wait for all that you wish to do in and through us.
Read more..September 29, 2020
He’s Still Knocking
I wonder how many times during the day Jesus gently knocks to warn me of his waiting presence? Not a warning that danger is imminent (though that may be true), but to warn in the sense of putting me on the alert, giving me notice that he is ready to give counsel or send some special message of his love.
Read more..September 15, 2020
What am I Doing?
"I do not seek my own will, but the will of him who sent me." John 5:30 Economic uncertainty sends us into the world of “what ifs.”
Read more..August 24, 2020
God’s Question
God’s first recorded question is one that rings down through the ages: “Where are you?"
Read more..August 9, 2020
Walking on the Mountain
Two hikers, bone weary from trudging toward the peak of a majestic mountain, pause when one says, “I think we’re on the wrong path; we’ve stopped making progress. Maybe it’s time to turn back.”
Read more..June 29, 2020
The Unwelcome Promise
“In the world you will have trouble…” John 16:33 How easily we’ve bought into the
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