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Love Lesson from Special Needs Dogs

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13

One of the beautiful, albeit hard and convicting, lessons I have learned through caring for a large number of rescued dogs through the years, especially when it comes to the special needs and seniors in my care, is how to be much more sensitive to people and their needs. If the truth be told, I have not wanted to continue caring for my big crew of what now are all special needs and senior rescued d...

Want Prosperity? DUMP YOUR JUNK

“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Matthew 13:19-21

“DUMP YOUR JUNK,” the man told his companions at the table where he sat in a crowded cafeteria as I walked by his table to return to my own. “All you have...

Is Yours a Selfish Love

“But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do no...

The Reason for Your Hope

“But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:” 1 Peter 3:15 My life was a roller coaster of hope – and hopelessness. I hoped for a man to love. I was hopeless when relationships with men fell apart. I hoped for a wonderful vacation. The vacations always came to an end. Then what would I hope for? I hoped for a happily ever after marriage. Two husbands abandoned me. I was...

Beautiful Suffering

“Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.” 1 Peter 4:1-2

Beautiful suffering. Maybe you think I’ve gone crazy. I have. Crazy for Christ. The more I learn about God, the more I seek Him, the more I study His Word, the more time I spend with Him, the more I know His...

Kill the Snake

“Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.” Luke 10:19

“You just don’t have the killer instinct,” my Dad told me decades ago when I was a youth competitive tennis player. I was really good at the sport, I loved the sport, but that was all it was to me. A sport. I just didn’t have the highly competitive nature that perhaps would have made me far more successful than I was. Not to mention I was...

“Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and s...

“Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.” Luke 10:19

“You just don’t have the killer instinct,” my Dad told me decades ago when I was a youth competitive tennis player. I was really good at the sport, I loved the sport, but that was all it was to me. A sport. I just didn’t have the highly competitive nature that perhaps would have made me far more successful than I was. Not to mention I was...

The Promise of Peace

“Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.” Phil. 4:9

One of the biggest mistakes I have made through the years, to which I still can fall so easily prey in my ever high-speed-through-life style, is to hurry and scurry through reading God’s Word and to miss the incredible significance of the words in His Word. Take, for example, Philippians 4:9, a scripture which I confess I had overlooked because I have usu...

“Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, ...

“Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.” Phil. 4:9

One of the biggest mistakes I have made through the years, to which I still can fall so easily prey in my ever high-speed-through-life style, is to hurry and scurry through reading God’s Word and to miss the incredible significance of the words in His Word. Take, for example, Philippians 4:9, a scripture which I confess I had overlooked because I have usu...

I Don’t Feel Like Loving You

“Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you. And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you: To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.” 1 Thessalonians 3:11-13

“You *&*!!” the man yelled at me with every ounce of anger and verbal venom he could muster. “I’m going to blow you...