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#HeartForTheWord King David experienced quite a journey as he traveled from the pasture to the palace. As the youngest son of Jesse, he wasn’t very highly regarded. In fact, when the prophet approached Jesse looking for the next king, Jesse didn’t even present David as a possibility until he was pressed to do so. After… Continue reading 6/24/15 Everybody Needs Somebody

I recently found my elementary school report cards. What fun it was to look over my teachers’ names and my grades. The most amusing part of the trip down memory lane, though, was reading the comments my teachers wrote to my parents. Besides the “good student” and “pleased with progress” remarks, another theme emerged. My… Continue reading 6-8-15: Born to Talk

#HeartForTheWord My latest enjoyable pastime is watching home improvement and home search television programs. Shows such as Property Brothers, Love It or List It, House Hunters, Income Property, Fixer Upper, etc. play back to back on the HGTV network and could fill the background of my day as I write and grade papers. We’ve done… Continue reading May 30, 2015: Carve Out a Space

#HeartForTheWord For my internet TV show, I interviewed a young woman whose husband is a quadriplegic. She discussed their struggle with facing the possibility of never being natural parents. In I Samuel chapter one, Hannah was having that same struggle. She prays to have a son. At one point, she is so distraught over this… Continue reading 5/1/15: What Makes You Say, “I’m Good”?

#AHeartForTheWord Besides being a classic love story, what we read about Ruth in the Bible is an uplifting reminder that where we were born and the bad things that happen to us in the past are no indicators of what God can do with us in the present and future. Ruth was from a family line considered cursed. (The… Continue reading 4/29/15: Life Will Work Out

#LifeThatMatters Have you ever gotten to the place in your frustration with a situation where you draw a line in the sand? You’ve had it. This is absolutly as far as you will go. Something must change. If you are the one in charge of the situation, you then move to bring those changes about.… Continue reading 4/22/15: Don’t Push It

#LifeThatMatters I asked some teenagers, “What would you need to consider yourself to be living the “good life”? The common thread in all of the answers was, “I would need lots of money and to be safe when I walk outside.” Hmmm, money and security: I thought that was interesting. Only one or two mentioned… Continue reading 4/21/15: Get to Work

#LifeThatMatters In Judges, chapter 6, the Angel of the Lord appears to Gideon to tell him he is the next judge chosen to deliver Israel, this time from the oppression of the Midianites. Not understanding why he, the least in a small family, would be chosen, Gideon asked the Lord for some reassurance. First, the… Continue reading 4/20/15: Reassurance

We hear Hebrews 10:25 preached to us all the time, admonishing us to go to church. “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching” (NKJ). Okay, that’s fine, but why? Other than the fact that… Continue reading 4/19/15: Why Go to Church?

One of my Biola professors once said, “God has no grandchildren.” What he meant by that was everyone must come into a personal relationship with God for himself or herself. We must interact with God as our Father and we as His children. Every generation with God is the first generation. I thought of this… Continue reading 4/18/15: God Has No Grandchildren