Tag Archives: God’s plans

Those Pharisees! Their lives have been described as resembling a gravestone, clean and polished on the outside, while inside they contain ruin and destruction. The Pharisees had more than one problem. Not only did they demand of others what they were unwilling to do themselves, but they went further by ...

And she called the name of the Lord that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me? Genesis 16:13 In Genesis 16, we see Hagar’s life was affected by the decisions of the authorities above her who had ...

The house looked forgotten after 30 years sitting empty; a heap of ruins against the  afternoon sky.    Screens loosed from the front porch windows waved to us in the breeze, and  man-sized holes caved in parts of  the roof. Junk rested tiredly against the sides of the house. The beehive ...

C. S. Lewis wrote a book called, The Problem of Pain. Pain is a great problem but it also is a great time of learning. This problem isn’t referring to what is wrong with pain, but the depth of pain. A good life, or the abundant life, does not mean a pain free ...

When I was a little girl, all the things I dreamt for my future seemed very exciting, let me tell you, I was a big dreamer.  Someone must have told me I could do or be anything, and I believed it.  I had a nice list. Basically it amounted to being beautiful, being well-off ...