The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ. J. I. Packer “This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him,…
Author: Pam R
“In Christ Alone”
by Keith and Kristin Getty This may well be my favorite Easter song. PR (Click on the arrow)
Holy Saturday
It is so easy for those who know the joyful end of the story to mentally and emotionally jump right from Good Friday to Easter Morning. Yet for a moment let’s remember what the day between must have been for Jesus’s friends and followers: Bereft and horrified beyond imagining. In terror for their very lives….
Good Friday
Isaiah 53:4-6 Amplified Bible But [in fact] He has borne our griefs,And He has carried our sorrows and pains;Yet we [ignorantly] assumed that He was stricken,Struck down by God and degraded and humiliated [by Him].But He was wounded for our transgressions,He was crushed for our wickedness [our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing];The punishment [required] for our well-being fell on Him,And by…
April
It’s spring! FarewellTo chills and colds!The blushing, girlishWorld unfolds Each flower, leaf,And blade of sod—Small letters sentTo her from God. The sky’s a herdOf prancing sheep,The birds and fieldsAbandon sleep, And jonquils, tulips,DaffodilsBloom bright uponThe wide-eyed hills. All things renew.All things begin.At church, they bringThe lilies in. John Updike, A Child’s Calendar (1965) ******** And because…
Drama
“Hisssss! Growl! Mrowrowrow! MROWROWROWROW!” Hunter was furious and wanted everyone to know it. Despite pre-visit medication, Hunter came home from the vet “loaded for bear.” And he believed Zoey, who had been to the vet too, was responsible. So he attacked her. And Zoey, no fool, ran away. I’m no fool, either. I set up…
Confidence
CONFIDENCE: the feeling or belief that one can rely on someone or something; firm trust.the state of feeling certain about the truth of something. a feeling of self-assurance arising from one’s appreciation of one’s own abilities or qualities. I am confident that the Creator, who has begun such a great work among you, will not stop…
Joy
Joy is a gift. Let the sunrise of your love end our dark night. Break through our clouded dawn again! Only you can satisfy our hearts, filling us with songs of joy to the end of our days. Psalm 90:14 The Passion Translation To all who mourn in Israel he will give: beauty for ashes; joy instead of…
12 For the Road
Psalm 23
As a child, I thought that “I shall not want” meant that I didn’t want the Shepherd. No one explained it because no one knew I was thinking that. Since words are easily misunderstood, much effort has gone into making the Bible understandable. Here are 2 versions of the 23rd Psalm that take different approaches…