Romans 10:13 - For, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." (NIV)Luke 11:8-9 - But I tell you this -- though he won't do it for friendship's sake, if you keep knocking long enough, he will get up and give you whatever you need because of your...
Matthew 6:25a - Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. (NIV)When my husband was a student back in 1976, we were as poor as church mice. We always had more month than we had money to cover...
Matthew 6:31-32 - So do not worry, saying, "What shall we eat?" Or "What shall we drink?" Or "What shall we wear?" For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. (NIV)Once, while my husband was studying for his master's...
2 Corinthians 3:18 - And we all, with unveiled face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. (Young's Literal Translation - YLT)Today, I picked up my hand-held mirror...
When I was a young married woman, my parents offered to take me and my three children out west in their motor home. Since my husband had to work, he told us to go.This trip was some adventure for my children. First off, they'd never been west. Secondly, they would...
John 15:4-5 - Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart...
Psalm 124:1,4-5 - If it had not been the Lord who was on our side -- then the flood would have swept us away, the torrent would have gone over us; then over us would have gone the raging waters. (NRSV)When it rains, it pours. Here in Newfoundland, it does that very...