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Honoring a Parent that’s Not Always Honorable

Honoring a Parent that’s Not Always Honorable

So, you know how you are going about life and Holy Spirit sends a word (one you are not expecting) and your heart feels that tug of conviction? Pastor Robert Morris was teaching on the Ten Commandments and he landed on number five, “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.” He didn’t get very far into his message when I…

It Really is Who You Know that Matters

It Really is Who You Know that Matters

“It’s not what you know but who you know that really matters.” Have you ever made that statement? I have. I said it recently when my daughter changed jobs with the help of a recommendation from her friend.  I’m pretty sure that Lazarus and his sisters were depending on their connection to Jesus when Lazarus fell ill. He had dined in their home. Reading their story in John 11 feels like there is a closeness….

A Gate, A Shepherd, and His Sheep

A Gate, A Shepherd, and His Sheep

I don’t know a lot about sheep. To be honest, if God hadn’t called us sheep there is a good chance that I would know next to nothing about them now. I’m a city girl. Well, city for the my area. So when Jesus says He is the Gate for the sheep and the good Shepherd, I’m thinking, OK, so how does that work? How does that help me in my everyday walking around life? In John, chapter…