How Is Your Heart?
2 Chronicles 16:9: “For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.” Do you worry about your finances or your children? Are you or family members sick with the flu or another illness? Do you feel...
I Cry to You, O LORD
Psalm 130:1: “Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD.” Newtown, Connecticut. These two words bring scenes of horror and heartache to us. How could something so tragic occur in an elementary school? Why did it happen? How can we prevent a mentally ill or an emotionally...
Keep Me Safe
Psalm 16:2: “Keep me safe, O God, for in you I take refuge.” A stray bullet killed another innocent child this past week in my area. According to a new nationwide study examining that type of gun violence, most people killed or wounded in stray-bullet shootings were...
Accused Day and Night
Revelation 12:10: “For the accuser of our brothers, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.” We’ve all made mistakes in the past. We’ve all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God as Romans 3:23 tells us. However, when we confess our...
Joseph: Beyond the Coat of Many Colors by Mary Englund Murphy
•Joseph is such a well known Biblical figure; there must be numerous books and Bible studies on him. What prompted you to write this study? There are many books, but few Bible studies devoted entirely to his story. Several authors include a “Joseph” chapter, but few...
Something New
Isaiah 43:19: “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.” I hate to admit it but sometimes I miss out on a wonderful gift or a new opportunity from God, or I delay the...
Watch in Hope
Micah 7:7: “But as for me, I watch in hope for the LORD, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.” I sometimes struggle to watch in hope for the Lord. How about you? Yet that is how God wants us to watch. The father of the prodigal son watched in hope for him to...
Christ Comes to Prison
2 Corinthians 5:17: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” Four days at a Kairos Prison Ministry Retreat transformed thirty women. The retreat included the usual items of talks, discussion, prayer, praise and...
We All Married Idiots
We All Married Idiots: Three Things You Will Never Change About Your Marriage and Ten Things You Can by Elaine W. Miller INTERVIEW QUESTIONS 1. Did we ALL marry idiots? What caused you to name a book, We All Married Idiots: Three Things You Will Never Change About...
