May you find moments of deep joy as you celebrate the birth of Jesus! May you have hours of delight as you contemplate God’s love for you! May the Spirit of God rest upon you and give you peace and hope as you anticipate what God has prepared for you in the New Year! We look…… Continue Reading
Author Archives: Marilyn
WHAT’S NEW?
“In Christ all things are made new.” – II Corinthians 5: 17 To view or print study guides We like to get new things, don’t we? It might be a new book or a new sweater. It could be a new phone or tool or something for your home. Usually new acquisitions bring us a…… Continue Reading
Winter Bible Study
Topic: WHAT’S NEW? – Discovering the “Good News” found in the New Testament When: Beginning, Friday, January 9, 2015 – Your invitation and details will be coming soon.… Continue Reading
GIVING THANKS
For beauty all around us laid – Sunshine bright and dappled shade For stars and moon which move on high – Creation’s splendor, feast to eye For towering mount and crashing shore – There is much to thank Him for! For friends and family so dear – Occasions of great joy and cheer For harvest…… Continue Reading
The Epistles and Revelation – Lesson 11 -November 21 – 28
What motivates you to choose to do right when the temptation to lie, to cheat, to get angry or to be jealous is strong? What goes through your mind in those mini-seconds before you actually say hurtful or unkind words? What helps you to apologize, to confess, to speak words of kindness rather than to…… Continue Reading
Sharing Some Thoughts – Lesson 10
Isn’t it interesting that the first believers in Jesus “became stronger because they lived in the fear of the Lord”? Not only did that early church in Jerusalem grow in numbers, but very quickly those disciples took this “Good News” to neighboring towns and then to the Gentiles (people who were different from them). It…… Continue Reading
The Gospels and Acts – Lesson 10 November 14 – 21
When is the last time you felt overwhelmed? Quite often the reasons for these feelings are negative. Perhaps you may have looked a list of tasks that you needed to finish and were overcome with the impossibility of accomplishing all of them in the time that you had available. Maybe the amount of sickness or…… Continue Reading
Sharing Some Thoughts – Lesson 9
My friend makes it a practice to mentally give thanks to God each night, before she drifts off to sleep, for 5 very specific things that she experienced during that day. She has found that these thoughts help her to turn her heart to God so that the anxieties of life and the challenges that…… Continue Reading
Insight from Old Testament Prophets Lesson 9 – November 7 – 14
Why is it that some individuals believe that they have received a special ability to foretell the future or even to predict the date of the return of Jesus? Even more surprising is that these people are able to convince others that their ideas and forecasts are reliable. Certainly there is scientific, as well as…… Continue Reading
Sharing Some Thoughts – Lesson 8
Is there a day that goes by when you do not feel the need for more wisdom than you have on your own? As long as you and I are in “that awkward period between birth and death” (unknown source), there will be constant reminders that our own resources and intelligence are inadequate. Knowledge, experience,…… Continue Reading