Daily Reading

While stationed in Hawaii, a few months before my beautiful daughter Tia was born, I was given a Bible from my parents for Christmas.  When Tia would cry, I would read it to her and she would instantly quiet down. If I stopped reading, she would cry again, so I would read more and she … Read More

How would you feel having to travel alone through a dark and lonely forest at night without any light?  I am sure none of us would volunteer for this! The world we live in has become a very dark place – dark because of willful sin and its seeming pleasure, causing many to walk around … Read More

The word cleanses us spiritually.  When I think of this, I think of Psalm 119:9. How can a young person stay on the path of purity?  By living according to your Word.  I know the psalmist uses the word “young” in this scripture.  I personally think it pertains to anyone who is trying to live … Read More

Most of us know that when you put your ear up to the inside of a shell, you can hear what sounds like the ocean.  You could take that shell home and put it on your coffee table to admire.  However, when the shell is sitting on the coffee table, you cannot hear this “ocean” … Read More

The Bible is full of God’s promises and commands, and I had read this verse many times (Joshua 1:8), but it did not impact or changed my life until I read it and accepted as a command from God. Accepting it as a command from God pushed me to be consistent on studying and meditating … Read More

I remember going through a season of my Christian walk where I was told to “trust your feelings.”  We were taught with good intentions meaning to feel for the Holy Spirit, but there was an over-emphasis on that “feeling” word. Sometimes when we are seeking for an answer from God in hard times – and … Read More

“but his delight is in the law[a] of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.  He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither.  In all that he does, he prospers.” Psalm 1:2-3 It is one thing … Read More

We know from the Bible that children are very important to Christ.  In Matthew 19, Jesus tells his disciples to allow the children to come to him so he can lay hands on them and pray for them.  He also stresses the importance of having a childlike faith.  But where does that faith come from? … Read More

Sometimes when we approach the Word of God, we have a spirit of timidity because we fear the God of the universe won’t speak to us.  We see our past, we see our mistakes and we think why would He talk to me? Or maybe your fear is different.  Maybe your fear is you won’t … Read More

That second winter of our marriage, as Claude and I held our firstborn son of two months, we knew we were in trouble.  This barely-five-pounds-at-birth child’s every inclination seemed to run contrary to anything that made us comfortable.  He was born by emergency c-section; his colicky tummy made me give up the idea of cloth … Read More