The Phone Call It was the phone call you never want to get. “Your husband’s been in a motorcycle accident. Can you come to the hospital?” Not knowing whether he’d skinned his knee or lost his legs, I gathered my sweatshirt and purse over my arm and told the kids…
(The following post was published here on the College Park Church Blog for REACH month.) “Dear God, I pray that the Smiths* would not be eaten by big, gigantic worms!” This is the daily prayer of my four year old little warrior. He usually follows it up with the swooshing…
Reading Ezekiel 29 this morning reminded me of our family’s month-long trip out west this Spring. I’ll blog more about that trip at some point for sure, but as we traveled up Route 66 to the Grand Canyon, through Las Vegas, to the beaches of the LA and San Diego…
The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas “Everything belonged to him; but he never owned anything.” THE REVIEW: The Robe was a gripping narrative surrounding the events after Jesus’s resurrection. The characters are vivid, the scenes are memorable, and the message is life altering. It took me a few pages to…
How I am feeling today:
I just finished reading two books at about the same time: Because He Loves Me by Elyse Fitzpatrick is a practical and inspirational application of the Gospel. The Robe by Lloyd Douglas is a historical fiction novel, written in 1942, about the atheistic Roman who crucified Jesus, gambled for his…
Ezekial 14:14 “Even though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in its midst, by their own righteousness they could only deliver themselves,” declares the Lord God. While reading through God’s judgment in Ezekiel, I came across chapter 14, where God calls out three men, maybe the “top three”…