by Kathy Collard Miller | Jan 21, 2011 | God's heart, holiness, pleasure
We housed some new friends this past weekend. After they left on Sunday, I went into the bathroom they used to gather their towels for washing. I was surprised to see that they had only used one set. One set? The other set was hung just the same as before. Why did...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Nov 4, 2010 | God's heart, knowing and understanding God, seeing Jesus
Have you ever found yourself saying something like, “I’ll never be like her” or “I always want to be like him!”? I’m sure we all have and it seems like a really good thing to focus on avoiding the mistakes of some and emulating the...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Nov 1, 2010 | God's heart
We all know the verse, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant.” We lump it together and forget that Jesus could have used other words to describe what He was commending. In fact, if we as Americans were to commend someone, the words would be more...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Aug 2, 2010 | God's heart, knowing and understanding God
Adam Clarke wrote,[God is]”the eternal, independent, and self-existent Being;the Being whose purposes and actions spring from himself, without foreign motive or influence;he who is absolute in dominion;the most pure, the most simple, the most spiritual of all...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jul 26, 2010 | God's heart, knowing and understanding God
Larry called out to me, “This cantaloupe isn’t any good.” He sat leaning over a partially eaten half-of-a cantaloupe. “It’s so hard.”I went over to the other half sitting on the kitchen counter and touched it. It was as hard as a...
by Kathy Collard Miller | May 17, 2010 | God's heart, marriage, motives, parenting
As I talk to women at parenting seminars or at women retreats, when I suggest something like a discipline technique to train their child or a “make marriage better” idea, I frequently hear, “I tried that, it doesn’t work.” When we try...