I’ve been meditating on our latest Bible study message in John 11 about the raising of Lazarus from the dead. There have been several things that have been happening in my life that I’ve been applying to what I believe the Lord may be showing me through this picture/story of Lazarus. I am not a… Read more »
I’ve been thinking about the relationship between me and my doggies in regard to what we are learning in our weekly Bible study at our home in John 10 about God’s picture/illustration about Him being the wonderful Shepherd and we being His needy/faithful sheep. Our teacher, Ed Miller, pointed out that in the Occidental/western society… Read more »
In our Bible study in John 10, we have been learning that the sheep that Jesus is talking about in this Bible illustration are sheep who can be called “the remnant”, a small group of sheep that have matured to where the Holy Spirit can write in their hearts experientially, not just theologically through their… Read more »
In the last blog, message #1 of The Shepherd and the Sheep, “The True and The False Shepherds”, we learned that in John 10 there is a contrast between the real shepherd and all those who come up another way called “strangers”, the false shepherds/teachers/hirelings. The confusion comes because God sometimes uses the word shepherd… Read more »
One of my favorite images of our relationship with Jesus in the Bible is the one of Jesus being the Good Shepherd and of us being His sheep. For the past thirty weeks in our weekly Bible study, we’ve been meditating in the book of John. As always, when we come together, it’s not to… Read more »
I recently viewed a “Christian Neurodivergent * Women” Facebook page… According to the site, I could be a “neurotypical”** person who has lived for 35 years with a “neurodivergent” (autistic) person, my friend, Pat; my husband and I invited her to live with us and our then 10 year old son back in 1989. At… Read more »
This was a question someone asked on a Facebook post that I recently saw: “I need someone to tell me why millions of Christians are going to support the least Christ-like person in America next month… Explain it to me like I’m in Bible class.“ I usually don’t get involved in political discussions, but what… Read more »
In 1982 my husband, Fred, and I had just gotten back together after a nine-month separation. During that time that we were apart I was seeking a divorce. Fred, who had accepted Jesus to be his Lord and Savior at 19 years of age at a Billy Graham movie, had begun to attend a Pentecostal… Read more »