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The Sound Of God Singing Over Me

A verse��has been playing around in my head for the past couple of weeks. I��read it��during my Quiet��Time one morning, and, since then, I’ve meditated on it, looked��up the context,��searched for��thoughts online about it, and, perhaps needless to say, prayed about it.

Here it is:��“He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you��by his love; He will exult over you with loud singing.” Zephaniah 3:17.

The phrase, “He will exult over you with loud singing,” is the��part��that struck...

Should I Fear God?

The notion of being afraid of God seems foreign to those of us who view God as the Lover of our Soul, who sing of His blessings, and who trust Him with our eternal soul.

Yet, one can’t read the Bible without encountering the oft-repeated admonition to “fear the Lord.” Throughout the Old Testament, there are numerous examples of God’s children receiving a blessing because they fear God. Also, because of fearing God, they do what He commands them to do. (Genesis 42:18; Exodus 1:17; Exodus 18:21)...

Entered Any Wormholes Lately?

After my husband and I saw the movie, Interstellar, the question of “Whose wife will she be?” was introduced into our discussions concerning the movie.

What does a question the Sadducees asked of Jesus have to do with a secular movie about intergalactic space travel, wormholes, and quantum physics?

Although the movie’s basic plotline centers onmankindbeing forced to search for a new Earthlike home because this present Earth’s resources have been devastated, several questions were raised by the...

Three Reasons You Should Put On Weight

From doctors to news commentators to politicians, weight is a big issue today. (No pun intended.) In our America society, with an abundant supply of food and a lack of exercise, it’s easier than ever to add a few extra pounds. But due to health problems associated with being overweight, health care professionals warn against allowing those few extra pounds to turn into a few more, and a few more, and a few more,and leadto obesity.

However, there’s another kind of weight the Bible says should b...

Who’s In Charge, Anyway?

As I was viewing posts on a writer’s site describing the results of methods used to advertise a new book’s release, I ran into a common theme–frustration and discouragement.

Some authors lamentedtheir publishers weren’t being aggressive enoughin advertising their latest release. Others felt their own methods hadfailed to generate sufficient sales. Yet, both were engaged in time-tested effortsbook publishers usually employed tomarket books, getting theminthe hands–and, thus, thehearts–of reader...

Is Your Life Out Of Focus?

One of the great things about most cameras today isthe automatic focusing feature. I’m old enough to remember using a camera that required fiddling with a bunch of dials before snapping the picture. Most of the time, those waiting to be photographed weren’t very patient about this process, and, oftentimes, after all that effort, the photo turned out to be out of focus after all.

As children of God, itwould be nice to have this automatic focusing mechanism built into our daily lives. Then, the...

Who’s Going To Take Out The Trash?

Do you rememberany of the itemsyou threw in the trash last week?Do you recall what you tied up in a plastic garbage sack, put inside a garbage can, and rolled to the curb a month ago? Probably not. They aren’t important now. That stuff is yesterday’s garbage.

That’s exactly how God treats the sins of His children. Those sins are yesterday’s garbage. Hebrews 8:12 “I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.”

Since God is . . . well, God, it’s hard to belie...

Is Your Godliness Hidden Away?

In my lifetime, I’ve known several people who claimed to be followers of Christ, but whose actions didn’t appear to back up this assertion.

From what I could observe, none of the attributes of the fruit of the Spirit from Galatians 5:22—love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness—were in evidence in their talk or in their walk.

If these characteristics were part of who they were, I didn’t see it.

For me to believe a personis truly born again, like the plant that suddenly burst f...

There Should Be A Better Word

I often play a word game on my iPad called Words With Friends. It’s very much like playing Scrabble, but, unlike Scrabble, you can try as many combinations of the letter tiles as you want until your word is accepted. Sometimes, you randomly arrange the tiles, and a word you never knewexisted is accepted. (Out of curiosity, I often look up the definitions of these words, thus justifying the “educational value” of playing this game.)

But, there are many other times when I arrange the tiles into...

“Look Inside” What’s That All About?

I recently read a blog post in which the writer said she never read reviews of the books she was interested in, nor did she read the book blurbs in the descriptions of the book. All she cared about was the free excerpt offered by the author or publication site.

Most books listed on Amazon have this feature. It’s called “Look Inside” and it provides any potential book purchaser the opportunity to read the prologue or first ten percent of a book at no charge. When book buyers are surveyed after...