You know what the difference is with self-help books and the Bible? The Bible doesn’t major on building up self. It points to a Savior that tells you that to find life you must lose yours. The Bible also contains curious phrases such as, ‘It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven’ - found in Luke 18, Mark 10, and Matthew 19. Don’t we value wealth highly in this world? We celebrate security and pensions and

Did you know that Gethsemane means oil press? I deliberately looked up the scriptures on Jesus’s experience in that garden this morning because I feel sort of out of sorts in my life, and in my prayers. Don’t get me wrong - I do not compare any emotional disturbance of mine with what Jesus went through but I can learn from this account and I pray I will glean some insight from it. Why the meaning of the name Gethsemane is relevant I am struck by the process of pressing oil f

I never went to college. I was not a happy camper in high school and then at 16 years old I met my husband and we got married when I was 18 in February and our oldest son was born the following year in September. Then it was off to the races raising three boys and running multiple businesses. Now in my advancing years I have been drawn to self-directed learning. I have always written. Mostly to just keep sane but in 2018 I self-published a small book of poetry, more accuratel

And it came to this earth at the arrival of Jesus Christ.

Differences of opinion. Differences of expectations. Differences of interpretation.

A person caught up in the rhetoric of the day coming out of Washington, or anywhere for that matter, is assured to be wasting a great deal of their energy.