RebeccaJan 132 minAn Anger CheckI was reading Psalm 106 this morning. Verses 32-33 caught my attention. Here is another insight God is giving us about anger. The two verses really are a rep...
RebeccaSep 26, 20193 minRead it daily...togetherWhen 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 full counsel of God. Th...
RebeccaFeb 21, 20193 minOvercomeRevelation 2-3 contains seven letters written to seven different churches in Turkey, all within about a hundred-mile radius from one another. As I wrote in m...
RebeccaJan 18, 20192 minA Psalm a DayYesterday I finished reading a book entitled Freedom from the Tyranny of the Urgent. One of the appendices is about praying the Scripture. The author encoura...
RebeccaJan 8, 20193 minFinding Hidden MannaEvery January one of the retired pastors in our church does a four-night winter Bible study series. This year he's teaching on Revelation 1-3. Last night we ...
RebeccaDec 11, 20183 minThe 2 sides of meditation: Choices, choicesI find it interesting that Psalm 1 shows both sides of a person who truly wants to know and please God. There's a "not" side—what that person does not do—an...
RebeccaDec 4, 20183 minAmmunition for the MindIn order to recall the words of God while we are doing other tasks, we have to have it in our minds in the first place. That is the purpose of memorizing Scr...
RebeccaNov 29, 20183 minDelight, meditate, obeyPsalm 1 speaks of the blessings of meditating on God's Word. But before we examine the blessings, we first have to consider why someone would meditate on som...
RebeccaNov 20, 20183 minThe Value and Purpose of MeditationIn the Bible God calls His people continually to interact with His Word. This is why He has given us His Word in written form. It's tangible, it's fixed, it'...
RebeccaNov 6, 20183 minSanctification, part 6: Meditating on the Word"Sanctify them by Your truth; Your Word is Truth." (John 17:17) That is what Jesus prayed for His disciples—and for us, for a couple verse later Jesus says, ...
RebeccaOct 30, 20184 minSanctification, part 5: The Lordship of ChristI have just done some study on the Lordship of Christ as part of a devotional book I'm writing. What blessed truth there is in the Lordship of Christ! What s...
RebeccaOct 23, 20185 minSanctification, part 4: Water Erosion and GrowthThe Holy Spirit and the Word of God are both likened to water. I wrote about that last week. Jesus said that whoever comes to Him to drink the water He has t...
RebeccaOct 16, 20184 minSanctification, part 3: Seed and WaterConsider these two Bible verses: I Peter 1:23: ". . . having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the Word of God which lives ...
RebeccaOct 10, 20184 minSanctification, part 2: His seedGod's life within us is likened to seed in I Peter 1:23: ". . . having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible . . ." Jesus also speaks of...
RebeccaOct 2, 20183 minSanctification, Part 1I've been attempting—again—to memorize the book of Romans. My brain is getting duller as I age. Memorization becomes more difficult. But yesterday I realized...
RebeccaSep 25, 20187 minCelebrating SukkotDid you know that God commanded His people to have two eight-day holidays or vacations every year? One is in the spring around March-April, and one is in the...
RebeccaSep 18, 20184 minDay of AtonementTonight the Day of Atonement begins, the 10th day of Tishri, the 7th month of the Jewish calendar, from sundown to sundown. The Day of Atonement was the one ...
RebeccaSep 11, 20185 minFall Feasts: Rosh HaShanahToday is the 2nd day of Rosh HaShanah. It was only to be a one-day feast, celebrated on the day of the new moon, on the first day of the seventh month of th...
RebeccaAug 28, 20183 minThe Bible Like RainReading the Bible is like rain gently falling on your heart and life: cleansing, nourishing, replenishing. In fact, God Himself likens His Word to rain in I...
RebeccaAug 21, 20183 minThe Water of the WordMy daughter Sharon has been the one to get my website up and running and to post these blogs for me. She asked how many weeks I'd be writing this series on t...