My wife and I are embarking on a new journey, one that we feel compelled by God to undertake, and would like to know if you and your church family might be interested in what we are proposing to do. We are offering all of the wisdom and years of experience that we have in [...]
There is a story in Mark 2 about four people who labored in love to get a friend sick of the palsy up on a rooftop and down to Jesus. Their labor of love was rewarded with the miraculous healing of their friend. But the thing that struck me most while I was reading that [...]
Why should a lady attend the Faith and Family Ladies’ Bible Study hosted by yours truly that meets on Thursday mornings at 8:15 am at our HB Junior High chapel, especially when our lives are sooo busy already? For several very good reasons: (1). Women have a lot of issues and need a means of [...]
Years ago I was running a sports league and ministry for sailors from Great Lakes Naval base when one weekend a boy came down to play who had a really bad attitude and simply would not cooperate with anything that we were trying to do. Because of the type of program we ran, we kept [...]
There is a very familiar story in the Book of Luke of how four men helped an invalid man to Jesus. They went to great measures to lower him through a roof-top down to where Jesus was. In this story Jesus heals the man and at the conclusion of the narrative this verse appears, Luke 5:26 [...]
"Ashley, do you realize that in just a few short months you will no longer be a child?" "Mom, what are you talking about?" "You’re turning thirteen. Just think! You’re leaving your childhood behind. Ashley, you will never pass this way again." "Mom, please." "This is such a heartbreak! Oh, grief, sadness! I’m too young [...]
I was reading my Bible one morning when I noticed a passage from Ezekiel 13:10-15 in which the prophet spoke of “untempered morter.” “Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter: Say unto [...]
I was in my house tending to my four month old daughter when the terrified screaming began. Neighborhood children burst through my back door crying, "Mrs. Hooker, come quick! Candy’s head is stuck in the porch railing!" Had it not been so pitiful, it could have been quite comical as I watched panic stricken grade [...]
Just a thought for getting the job done daily – I call it ROPEF. In Ezra 3:4 They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required. Notice this ending phrase, as the duty of [...]
Hurting people need answers and help through Christ. Use this prayer formula to help deal with pain and help others.
