Posts with the tag “laurel-dhillon”

In the past as I have read through this passage of Moses going up on Mount Sinai I have always been a little critical of the Israelites impatience with waiting for him to come back down. They had just...  Read More

This is so amazing. It really shows us both sides of the character of God. On one side,  He is just. Cain killed his brother out of jealousy because God accepted Abel’s sacrifice, the fat of the "firs...  Read More

These words are such a good admonition for us. Like 1 Peter 5:8 says, “Satan prowls around us like a roaring lion, looking for anyone he can devour.” There are many things that seem so inconsequential...  Read More

Reading this passage so soon after entrenching myself in the events that led up to Christ's death on the cross has caused me to pay close attention to what it really means to say, "I want to know the ...  Read More

You know, sometimes we read passages and say we believe them but…I think especially in our western world, we gloss over certain phrases. Do we really believe this verse? I mean if we look at the works...  Read More

I've been thinking about this throughout this past month as we have been preparing for our Easter celebrations. We are so grateful for the work that Jesus did on the cross and we want others to find t...  Read More

As I’m meditating on these words my thoughts are, “It takes work!” Sometimes when I think about how I share the salvation message of knowing Christ I tend to think, “Ask Jesus into your life and you w...  Read More

We are are now beginning our 40 Days for Life campaign as we partner with Right to Life. We have many volunteers from our Campus Bible family volunteering to pray on the sidewalk in front of Planned P...  Read More

A while ago I was reading in 1 Corinthians and there was a passage that talks about the Spirit of God. For some reason the way this translation worded it gave me a much different perspective than I’ve...  Read More

I love these words. First that His word can be found and it can change the state of our heart. It lets me know that there is great hope for those that either don’t know the Lord or that have walked aw...  Read More

I love watching Christmas movies. I love the warmth I feel when I’m watching them. Maybe because there is usually some element of cold that causes them to wrap their hands around decorated cups of hot...  Read More

When I read this it reminded me of Satan in the garden when he said to Adam, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?...You will not surely die.” Satan’s ways haven’t chan...  Read More

I totally believe in the power of prayer. And even when I don't get an answer or don't get the answer I want, I know the Lord listens to me when I pray. That being said, there are days that I fret and...  Read More

When I read this verse I thought of a situation in my life that at times I wonder if the Lord understands my grief and if He really has control over making things right for those I love. But here the ...  Read More

This was part of the message from the Lord that Nathan the prophet spoke to King David when David sinned by having Uriah the Hittite killed and taking his wife Bathsheba.In 2 Samuel 7 the Lord tells D...  Read More

Do you ever feel like you are in a holding pattern?It's like loading onto a plane and waiting for it to take off. You have everything ready and have stored your carry on in the overhead bin. You sit d...  Read More

Secrets are so interesting. When you tell a friend you have a secret the first thing they will ask is, "What is it?" And they'll ask you over and over til you finally tell them…because isn't that why ...  Read More

These were a part of the last words Jesus spoke to His disciples. Before this, in John 15, Jesus told them, "I am the vine and you are the branches…" and reminded them how important it is to stay conn...  Read More

This is such a great picture of who we are as a family of God. All four of these men needed one another in order to fulfill God’s plan. Joshua needed Moses to hold up the rod, and Moses needed Aaron a...  Read More

Who do you think said this?? If you guessed Job you would be wrong. It was Jeremiah (Jeremiah 20:14–15)! As obedient as he was to take God’s message to his people there were times he wished he didn’t ...  Read More

So much of 1 Peter is about suffering. After you read it you shouldn’t be at all surprised that you encounter suffering in your life. I wonder why I continually have to be reminded of that fact. Truth...  Read More

It's amazing how different we can be from one another. I love sitting behind a desk dealing with schedules and charts. I love balancing a checkbook (yes I still do that even in this digital age) and e...  Read More

When Pastor Kenton’s spoke from this passage a few weeks ago I was struck by the realization that the Lord was silent when a woman asked Him to heal her daughter. I know that we talk about what it mea...  Read More

Right before Matthew 9:13, Jesus had met Matthew the tax collector. He told him to “Follow Me” and Matthew did. Then Jesus went to his house and had a meal with him and many other tax collectors. When...  Read More

This past Easter season I was blessed by seeing so many ways God’s people joined together to support and encourage one another as a family to provide an opportunity for the community to hear and exper...  Read More

Zedekiah's relationship with Jeremiah reminded me of the relationship Herod the Tetrarch had with John the Baptist that Pastor Brian spoke about in a recent sermon. Herod was intrigued with John the B...  Read More

I can remember when my husband Gary would be on mission trips to Africa for several weeks. For the first third of the time I was able to get a lot of projects done. I would catch up on a good book I w...  Read More

My favorite time of day is late in the afternoon when the sun is lower in the sky and shines so brightly into my windows. It creates a joy, a melody in my heart that is unexplainable. The other day ar...  Read More

I have always looked down on the Israelites at this point for not waiting for Moses to come down before they lost heart. I mean it was right after all the huge miracles to get them out of Egypt and th...  Read More

When trials come…grief, family conflict, financial upsets… it’s hard to see how God could send those circumstances into our lives. We believe He wants the best for us so how can those things be what a...  Read More

I’ve been reading through many of Paul’s letters in the New Testament recently and this passage really caught my attention. I thought about Paul and all the time he spent in prison. Did he loose heart...  Read More

Some background to this verse…the commandment came after Peter got caught up in the excitement of being honored to be included in seeing Jesus transfigured and viewing Moses and Elijah talking with Hi...  Read More

A week ago we had Youth Sunday here at our church. I always look forward to this because I love seeing the youth shine! This time was no exception! But this time they also blew me away. There were so ...  Read More

As I read through Daniel 3 and the account of what happened to Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego I was struck with how quickly the current of culture can be swayed.Nebuchadnezzar, the king, was full of ...  Read More

I've been reading the major prophets for a bit now and I have to say it isn't very cheerful. In fact, it's been very disheartening and bleak and I can hardly wait to get to Daniel to read about the vi...  Read More

Last Sunday, my husband Gary and I went for a drive. We had not planned where we would go. We were supposed to go out of town, but a family emergency had kept us close to home. All was well at this po...  Read More

I love this verse! It explains exactly what the Word of God does for us! It explains what Jesus meant when He said, "Take, eat, this is My body." (Mark 14:22) and "I am the bread of life… I am the liv...  Read More

This morning I was finishing up my time in Ecclesiastes and I read in my notes after this final passage, "Read at my funeral." My reason for writing that was because I thought if I had it read at my f...  Read More

Wisdom, understanding, instruction…all three of these are listed in such a way to depict that they are things that are not something I can conjure up. They are from without, not within. So how do we g...  Read More

Do you notice that sometimes when the Lord shows you something from His Word that you start to see references to it in more places? That’s how it was when the Lord impressed upon me the arrows of the ...  Read More