"We even saw giants there, the descendants of Anak. We felt like grasshoppers next to them, and that's what we looked like to them." Numbers 13:33 NLTQuan was struggling with a foreboding sense of insignificance. His people were celebrating a feast for their gods....
"And since we have a great High Priest who rules over God's house, let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him." Hebrews 10:21-22 NLTShe lived on the wrong side of the tracks, but an invitation from a distant relative changed her...
"I have heard all this before. What miserable comforters you are!" Job 16:2 NLT Regardless of where she went, she couldn't find comfort.Leah and her husband were never apart. They even volunteered at the same place after they retired. Both appeared to be in good...
More is gained by grieving than is lost by not."David and his men tore their clothes in sorrow when they heard the news. They mourned and wept and fasted all day for Saul and his son Jonathan." II Samuel 1:11-12The news hit him like a bombshell. Running for his life,...
"And Samuel replied, 'Yes, your servant is listening.'" 1 Samuel 3:10 NLTWhen the horn blew, we knew it was time to come home.As a child, I never knew the type of technology our current generation enjoys. My friends and I played the normal games-hide n seek, cowboys...
"Instead, we will hold to the truth in love, becoming more and more in every way like Christ." Ephesians 4:15 NLTHe was a hell fire and brimstone preacher who held to the truth regardless.My dad was a preacher for 40 some odd years. I remember him being of the...
"I warned you when you were prosperous, but you replied, 'Don't bother me.' You have been that way since childhood-you simply will not obey me!" Jeremiah 22:21 NLT Our challenge seemed simple but proved more difficult than we imagined.The final day of school is always...