The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. ~John 10:10 NKJV~ The devil is a sneaky guy. Literally. When all of his attempts to pull your love away from God fail, he tries…
Read more Today’s Pondering~All’s Well That Ends Well, but then there’s this…
You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. ~Matthew 5:13 NIV~ There are those who cannot function in our society unless they are looking at things from…
Read more Today’s Pondering~Going gray…
So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.” ~John 8:17 NKJV~ Holding onto opinions about a person based on something they did in the past is not walking in love. Yet, there are so…
Read more Today’s Pondering~Love changes everything…or at least it should
A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, so she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume. ~Luke 7:37 NIV~ I used to wonder sometimes, will there ever be a time when I don’t feel like this woman? Having come through a long…
Read more Today’s Pondering~All things alabaster…
On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there. ~Acts 16:13 (NIV)~ This is my first major post of the new year for this blog and I have prayed…
Read more Today’s Pondering~Break my heart for what breaks Yours…
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. ~1 John 5:14 NIV~ I didn’t write much throughout the month of November because I was struggling with the notion that I had nothing to say. I was caught up in a process of trying very…
Read more Today’s Pondering~Willing to obey
The disciples did not understand any of this. Its meaning was hidden from them, and they did not know what he was talking about. ~Luke 18:34 NIV~ It’s funny how pain brings out the absolute worst in people. At a time when the commonality of our suffering should bring us together, the pain of loss…
Read more Today’s Pondering~We meet again…
And Moses said to them, “Stand still, that I may hear what the Lord will command concerning you.” ~Numbers 9:8 NKJ~ Lately, I have been so caught up in finding my way that I’ve let the continuous search interfere with the probability of reaching my destination. The need to know that I was heading down…
Read more Today’s Pondering~Quit looking, I found it…
When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” John 8:7 (NIV) I believe that the worst thing we can do as Christians is to constantly preach a guilt-invoking message to those…
Read more Today’s Pondering~Heavy lifting…
Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. ~ James 4:11 NKJV~ The word of the day seems…
Read more Today’s Pondering~Throwing stones…