On a “blah” autumn day (too cold to hike or play outside, but no snow for skiing or a snowball fight) we took our sons to the craft store, hoping to find indoor entertainment. One boy chose a paint-by-number set of a black labrador puppy in a pond. Nice!
Several months later the less-than-half-painted [...]
Why do we use the term “gut reaction”? It refers to an immediate response driven by the warm, blood-fed stuff of inside—our guts—pulsing heart, ballooning lungs and waste-filtering loops of intestine. Our guts keep us alive and thriving. They also function at our very core, in our deepest places.
Only four verses into [...]
I opened to the page I wanted, read one line, and hit a wall. I tried starting over, but my eyes and mind could not get beyond the period of that first sentence. God’s Spirit blocked me from reading on, so I did as He guided. Okay, Lord, I’ll stay here a [...]
And the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who with his brothers was in charge of the songs of thanksgiving.
And the chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers who stood opposite them, to praise and give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man [...]
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