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Don’t Judge But Do Correct
We hear often that Christians shouldn't judge and we are indeed told not to judge. But we forget the instruction to correct others found in 2 Timothy 2:24-25:But refuse foolish and ignorant speculations, knowing that they produce quarrels. The Lord’s bond-servant must...
Feeling Overwhelmed? I Was
I've recently completed a very stressful season of my life and at the elderly age of 63 (LOL!), I've found it more difficult than ever to deal with stress. In comparison to this stressful season, the other seasons in my life didn't seem that stressful. Of course, they...
More Lessons From Uzzah
We're continuing our series examining the story of the death of Uzzah (2 Samuel 6). He tried to make sure the Ark didn't fall off the oxcart and God struck him dead. (See the previous posts for more).Two of our initial points that R. C. Sproul brought out of the story...
Who Can Understand God’s Ways?
(We're continuing a series on the story of Uzzah. Click for the first installment here.)AND DRUM Roll! The winner of the drawing for a copy of Dear God! He's Home! by Janet Thompson is....Lillian! Please send me your mailing address, Lillian, to me at kathyspeak...
“Of Course, I Should Rescue the Ark!”
(This is a second post in a series. If you haven't read my previous post, you'll find it here.) As I read R. C. Sproul's book The Holiness of God, I did get a deeper sense of the importance of God's holiness. But somehow I knew my sense of it continued to be extremely...
I Feel Sorry for God
I feel sorry for God. He is so misunderstood. His created ones love to pick on Him, finding ways to mis-represent Him and misunderstand what He does.The story of God striking Uzzah dead is one of those stories that is hard to understand. It can diminish our trust that...
Book Give-Away: “Dear God, He’s Home!”
I'm very excited to include an interview with my friend, Janet Thompson, who has a new book published entitled Dear God, He's Home! Isn't that a great title? The subtitle is: A Woman's Guide to the Stay-At-Home Man. There could be lots of reasons for a husband being...
Even Job Succumbed to People Pleasing
And the winner of the copy of Engaging Today's Prodigal: Clear Thinking, New Approaches, and Reasons for Hope by Carol Barnier is: DRUM ROLL: Barbara! Congratulations, Barbara. I know you'll appreciate this book as much as I did. (See my review of it in my last post....
Book Give-Away: Engaging Today’s Prodigal
(You can win a free copy of this book. Read below.) Do you have a "prodigal"? Jesus gave us the parable of The Prodigal Son so most of us know what a prodigal is: a person who has left the faith or rejected in some way the beliefs or ideas they were taught.I know of...
A Most Surprising Verse
What is the most surprising verse in the Bible to you? I read Deuteronomy 14:22-26 this morning and I was surprised. Of course, I've read the verses before but each time I do, they surprise me! God is giving the Israelites instructions on sacrifices and offerings and...
Don’t Blame the Donkey
We're continuing the story of Balaam and God has given the donkey the ability to speak. The donkey could see the angel of the Lord with a drawn sword. To avoid Balaam, its rider, being killed, it turned aside. Balaam misinterprets the actions of the donkey as...
The Donkey Speaks
In our last post, we began to see the foundation for the temptations that led to Balaam's anger. He is being offered approval, distinction, and prosperity by King Balak. Aren't those three things that we all want? Little by little, Balaam's underlying motives are...
Why Anger?
As I continue to read through the Bible, I keep noticing things I hadn't before. Or knowing my brain...I read them before but forgot. So when I read again about the famous Balaam, I noticed some things that motivated me to write about anger: it's causes and...
Sitting Some More
In my last post, we talked about "sitting in it" so that we can identify the motives of our hearts. Here's a further way of "sitting" as given by Elyse Fitzpatrick in her book Idols of the Heart, a book I've highly recommended in the past (P & R Publishing). She...
Just Sit In It!
We're so glad that Joseph's brothers came to the point of repentance and surrender. Being in prison had quite an impact on them.What we may not realize is that God puts each of us in a kind of "prison" so that we also can come to the point of repentance and surrender....
Repentance Achieved!
We're continuing in our story about Joseph and his brothers. Next, Joseph puts all the brothers in prison for three days. Let's pick up the story: "Now Joseph said to them on the third day, 'Do this and live, for I fear God: if you are honest men, let one of...
What’s Your Favorite Quality?
What do you feel like you must make sure other people know about you? What is your most valued personal trait? Do you get upset when people think the opposite of you? You may remember that in past posts I've shared that I want to be seen as dependable and...
Make It A Script-Free Zone
We're looking at what was necessary to bring Joseph's brothers to true repentance and I was reminded of an amazing chapter on repentance that Brian Chapell includes in his great book, Holiness by Grace: Delighting in the Joy That is our Strength (Crossway 2001, pg....