by Kathy Collard Miller | May 16, 2013 | knowing and understanding God, stress, trials, worry
Are you going through a very difficult time? Does it seem purposeless and unneeded? Is it a time of questioning what God is doing–or even questioning God’s wisdom and sovereignty? We’ve all been there at one time or another. Such is life, yet at...
by Kathy Collard Miller | May 6, 2013 | forgiveness, guilt
We’re continuing our discussion of the Woman of Sidon (I Kings 17). We’ve discovered that she was feeling shameful for some sin. So she said to Elijah, “What do I have to do with you, O man of God? You have come to me to bring my iniquity to remembrance...
by Kathy Collard Miller | May 2, 2013 | forgiveness, guilt, relationships
As I prepare this post for later publication, my husband, Larry, and I are looking forward to speaking for a second time at an adult Fellowship Class. Our subject is shame and it’s fun to me to see God’s timing because that is what was going on with this...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Apr 30, 2013 | assumptions, beliefs, forgiveness, guilt
I would love to sit down to a cup of tea with you and hear your thoughts about the Woman at Sidon. (Go to previous post for the beginning of our conversation about her.) Maybe you’d scowl at me because you think I’m being too hard on her. Maybe you’d...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Apr 26, 2013 | assumptions, faith, pain
Are you like me? Sometimes you pass the test and sometimes you don’t? In reading in I Kings 17, I recently saw with new eyes someone who went from trusting God to abandoning that trust. The story is familiar, but read it with me:”Then the word of the Lord...
