What is your job? What pays the bills, keeps food on the table and a reliable roof over your head? This past weekend, a Ph.D professor said, “Teaching is my job. The Gospel is my business, my life.” Does that make you stop and think? It did me. “Love the LORD your God with all…
Two weeks ago now, a man died. I had never met him personally. I had only met him in the pages of a book. I met him through a pastor of a small church in West Virginia. She took the time to not just talk about what was on Jesus’ heart, but to take the…
How well God must like you – you don’t hang out at Sin Saloon, you don’t slink along Dead-End Road, you don’t go to Smart-Mouth College. Instead you thrill to God’s Word, you chew on Scripture day and night. You’re a tree replanted in Eden, bearing fresh fruit every month, Never dropping a leaf, always…
Sometime after we have started school, grandparents, godparents, aunts and uncles will begin to ask, “What are you going to be when you grow up?” As we grow the answers usually change. Some of us from an early age have a passion for a certain vocation. Some graduate from high school, maybe even receive scholarships,…
A truly good wife is the most precious treasure a man can find! 11 Her husband depends on her, and she never lets him down. Proverbs 31:10-11 (CEV) And the Proverb goes on to say that this woman: is good to her husband every day makes her own clothes (and the cloth!) gets up before…
Maybe we know we often create our own messes, so we assume we should clean them up. – Nicole Unice from She’s Got Issues (ISBN#: 1414365101) Wife, mother, ministry leader, and counselor, Nicole Unice brings her giftings, knowledge, and life experiences into a book that will peel you like an onion and reveal the source…
Today’s article on msnbc.com begins with this sentence: Juggling parenting with a high-powered career and hectic social life is a challenge anywhere in the world. And in that first sentence the problems are identified. Parenting is by far the hardest work I have ever done. From the time that I was aware that I had…
It has been awhile since I wrote a note here. Life has reminded me of carnival rides with the Tile-A-Whirl and roller coasters taking top prizes! The devotionals that I have written in the last few months have a discernible thread about trusting God on a daily basis. Trusting Him enough to allow Jesus to…
My husband and I are partners in a Christian publishing company. It has been an eye-opening experience to work with people to see their dream become a reality. Henry has given guidelines for submissions on our website but I am talking about getting from “I think I want to write about _____” or “I have…