I’m memorizing Psalm 109 this month. It’s a rather dark psalm, one of the imprecatory psalms. Imprecatory psalms are the ones that call...

It hardly seems possible that it’s been 10 years already. Tragedy has a way of warping time. The events of those days seem both very...

I did a simple exercise this morning with Proverbs 8. I made four different lists. Making lists is one of my favorite Bible study...

I’ll never forget reading a commentary on Deuteronomy 6:4, the opening verse of what the Jewish people call the great “Shema.” It reads...

What a difference it would make in the life of every believer in Christ Jesus if we would follow the single admonition of Paul in Romans...

Prayer should define us. Last night I read the one-page opening chapter from the book What Every Child Should Know About Prayer by Nancy...

You, Mr. President, cannot save America. Only God can do that. We—you, Mr. President, and those who vote for you—cannot make America...

I was reading Psalm 106 this morning. Verses 32-33 caught my attention. Here is another insight God is giving us about anger. The two...

Shortly after my husband died, I read a book on widowhood by Joyce Rogers. One sentence in her introduction caught me up short and...

Whew! The main body of the essay is written! Are we done now? Nope. Not yet. So far, we have followed the process of writing an essay...

Step 4 in the writing process is writing the main body of the essay. If you’ve followed Steps 1-3 in writing an essay (see previous...

When we first started out, we used a printed Bible curriculum, but I wanted to teach my children the whole scope of the Bible and the...

I wrote previously (April 2, 2019) that "keepers at home" can also be translated "workers at home." The word keeping carries the...

The 3rd step in writing an essay is making an outline. Once you have done a "dump page" and organized all the items on the "dump page" on...

I have to confess that as a child, and even (maybe especially!) in my high school years, I was messy. My bedroom was rarely clean....

Essay writing can actually become fun and fairly easy! Last week I wrote on Step 1 of writing an essay: choosing a topic and making a...

I felt certain I had already blogged on this, but I couldn't find it this morning. So if this is redundant, I apologize. But then again,...

As a new school year begins, let's talk about writing. Most students groan when you even mention writing. Essays?? That's the worst! I...

A masterfully written book, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy combines fictional characters with an historical event in Maine. A...

For many of us who call ourselves Christians or followers of Jesus Christ, prayer is an afterthought. By that, I mean several different...