How Deep The Father’s Love For Us

A friend gave me a copy of this poem yesterday - I found in online and discovered it actually started in 1999 as a PowerPoint presentation written by Barry Adams at a church in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.  The response to it was so overwhelming, it was made into a video and a website was...

The Flood

Yesterday the last straw hit. A friend texted and wondered where I'd been at the worship team dinner the night before, because my husband had been there. Backstory: We were both told we had to step down from serving on that team when we separated last year. But for some reason he showed up at...

Sufficient Grace

I've been thinking about grace a lot lately. Coming to terms with my own sin in the past few weeks probably spurred this on.  And being sick and having nothing to do but think didn't hurt. At any rate, I was thinking about grace.  I think it doesn't get taught often enough from the pulpit....

There But For The Grace of God…

I'm a sinner.  I mean, it's human nature.  We sin.  It's what we do.  We try not to, but we're not perfect, so we miss the mark.  Sometimes we miss the mark time after time in the same area and bewail our lack of self control and despair of ever getting it right. And there...

Sinners In The Hands of a Merciful God

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about realizing that God isn't mad at me, and He doesn't hold it against me, that I got myself into a situation where I'm being held back from doing things I could be doing.  That was a big relief - especially that part about Him not only UNDERSTANDING...