Kayla Wallace ready for her first day of preschool As I read the posts of so many of my Facebook friends I keep seeing “first day of school” or “first day of college” again and again. How exciting it is when we go through a new door – exciting and apprehensive at the same time. Will I make new friends? Will people like me? Will I be able to keep up with all my classes? Yet the excitement and anticipation of
Exodus 12:1-30 The first Passover Unleavened bread – not Kosher, but as close as I could come to how I think the Israelites might have made it the night of the first passover. I am getting ready for Bible school. The lesson for the first day is about the first Passover and includes making fake unleavened bread with some homemade play dough. Since my husband and I enjoy not only making bread, but grinding our own grain, I have
If you seek me you shall find me if you seek with all your heart. Read 1 Samuel 16:1-13 Click on this link to read the passage. You may select your preferred version of the Bible after the link opens. Young David was knowingly overlooked by his father, Jesse, as he rounded up his sons to come to the sacrifice Samuel had prepared. Samuel had come to anoint one of Jesse’s sons as the next king of Israel. Samuel was
The whole earth bears witness to its Creator. The Grand Canyon photo copyright by David L. Green If this video doesn’t put you in the spirit of praising God… http://www.andiesisle.com/creation/magnificent.htm I know a few people who have problems believing in a God who can’t be proven through scientific evidence. But they must acknowledge that God can’t be disproved through scientific evidence either. For anyone to say there is no God, they must be able to claim they have visited and
My friend, Kathryn Frasier, just posted in her Facebook notes something I wish I had written. With her permission I am posting it here for my readers. What a great book for summer (or anytime) reading! This Summer’s Must-Read Non-Fiction (book review by Kathryn Frazier) I just finished this summer’s must-read nonfiction: true stories of ordinary men and women of faith whose lives intertwined with abusive priests and religious hypocrites. The book opens with a depressed woman, scorned because she does not live up