[I intend to pray for children and families on Thursdays this year and I would love to have you join me.] 1-2 All you who fear God, how blessed you are! how happily you walk on his smooth straight road!    You worked hard and deserve all you’ve got coming.       Enjoy the blessing! Revel inContinue Reading

For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid,  but gives us power, love and self-discipline.” (2 Timothy 1:7 NIV) Let’s look again at the people in our Christmas story. Zechariah and Mary and Joseph – and later the Magi –  each received messages from Gabriel, some inContinue Reading

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was with God in the beginning.  Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.  In him was life, and that life was the light ofContinue Reading

  “Forget the former things;     do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing!     Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness     and streams in the wasteland.” – God  (Isaiah 43:18-19Continue Reading