by Kathy Collard Miller | Sep 10, 2019 | anxiety, Bible reading, Bible study, children, glory to God, heart change, parenting, people pleasing
What Can We Learn From Salome? One of the challenges for all of us is thinking we know best for someone else. There’s a woman in the Bible named Salome who thought she knew best for her sons. Let’s read her story in Matthew 20:20-24: Then the mother of the sons of...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Sep 2, 2019 | anger management, Bible reading, Bible study, book drawing, book review, fear of man, God's heart, relationships, sanctification
I love making book giveaways available and this time, it’s a book that we all relate to at one time or another: “I Love the World–It’s the People I Can’t Stand” by Dave Beckwith. The subtitle is “Jonah’s Journey of...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Aug 1, 2019 | abuse, anger, anger management, Bible reading, Bible study, contentment, How can I cover up anger?, marriage, overwhelmed feelings, Proverbs
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.–Proverbs 10:12 (ESV) What an important and powerful word picture Proverbs 10:12 gives about anger toward others. We can “stir up” wounds or “cover” them with love and understanding, thus no longer being held...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jul 18, 2019 | Bible reading, Bible study, child abuse, child abuse prevention, children, communication, parenting
The biblical book of Proverbs offers wisdom for parenting. God cares about the challenges we face as parents. He knows the pain and confusion. He knows we will be imperfect in our responses and is working more in our children’s lives than we realize. Only Jesus...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jul 2, 2019 | Bible reading, Bible study, fruit of the Spirit, God's heart, God's questions, obedience, thirst for God
Put yourself in the scene for a moment. You are sitting in a crowd looking at Jesus who in the manner of a rabbi is seated most likely on a large rock. He’s not standing. He has just said (Matthew 5:11,12), his followers should be glad when they are persecuted because...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jun 25, 2019 | anger, anger management, Bible reading, Bible study, God's questions, guidance
I don’t like to not know. I don’t like to not have an answer or an opinion. Not knowing or not being able to reply makes me feel tense. And dare I say it? I feel stupid. What’s even sillier, is that I will give an opinion even though I’m not...