While getting your gear together for a camping trip, you check off your packing list… You have your clothes, food, water, tent, sleeping bag… What else will you need? Did you remember a flashlight so you can see to walk around at night? Does your flashlight have fresh batteries? There were no flashlights in Bible times. Instead they used oil lamps to see at night. says, “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.” (NIV) What does this
Grasshopper – drawing by Jonathan Huff I would like to attempt to shed some light on a passage of scripture that gives many people an excuse to discount the accuracy of the Bible. I am not concerning myself with whether or not we should eat these insects. Rather, I am taking issue with the words “insects that walk on all fours.” Leviticus 11:20-23 in the New International Version (1984) reads: 20 All flying insects that walk on all fours are to be detestable
Dewberry AKA “devil weed” For starters, I will have to sheepishly say “Do as I say, not as I do,” with your garden… As I sized up the task of preparing my flower garden for the new plants my husband and I had been growing in small containers, I dreaded the task of pulling the weeds that had once again taken over my flower bed. I can give you my excuses for not having dealt with them sooner, but suffice it
In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps. –Proverbs 16:9 (NIV 1984) Sometimes it makes no difference what plans you make, they will be changed. Such has been the story of my life since the beginning of 2013. The whole month of January and the first week of February this year my focus was totally on my back. I didn’t know it could hurt so bad. January has been poetry month for me in the previous two
If you are reading this today, on Christmas Eve, you probably have more time on your hands than many who are scrambling to get everything ready for a big family get-together. Chances are you are one of many who may, for one reason or another, be separated from family members who you would like to be with at this special time of the year. I share your disappointment as my mother and siblings are 550 miles to the west
