Rebecca
An Anger Check
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...
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Rebecca
- Sep 25, 2019
- 3 min
Read it daily...together
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...
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Rebecca
- Feb 20, 2019
- 3 min
Overcome
Revelation 2-3 contains seven letters written to seven different churches in Turkey, all within about a hundred-mile radius from one...
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Rebecca
- Jan 18, 2019
- 2 min
A Psalm a Day
Yesterday I finished reading a book entitled Freedom from the Tyranny of the Urgent. One of the appendices is about praying the...
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Rebecca
- Jan 8, 2019
- 3 min
Finding Hidden Manna
Every January one of the retired pastors in our church does a four-night winter Bible study series. This year he's teaching on Revelation...
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Rebecca
- Dec 11, 2018
- 3 min
The 2 sides of meditation: Choices, choices
I 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...
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Rebecca
- Dec 4, 2018
- 3 min
Ammunition for the Mind
In 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...
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Rebecca
- Nov 28, 2018
- 3 min
Delight, meditate, obey
Psalm 1 speaks of the blessings of meditating on God's Word. But before we examine the blessings, we first have to consider why someone...
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Rebecca
- Nov 20, 2018
- 3 min
The Value and Purpose of Meditation
In 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...
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Rebecca
- Nov 6, 2018
- 3 min
Sanctification, 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...
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Rebecca
- Oct 30, 2018
- 4 min
Sanctification, part 5: The Lordship of Christ
I 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...
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Rebecca
- Oct 23, 2018
- 5 min
Sanctification, part 4: Water Erosion and Growth
The 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...
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Rebecca
- Oct 16, 2018
- 4 min
Sanctification, part 3: Seed and Water
Consider these two Bible verses: I Peter 1:23: ". . . having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the Word...
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Rebecca
- Oct 9, 2018
- 4 min
Sanctification, part 2: His seed
God's life within us is likened to seed in I Peter 1:23: ". . . having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible . . ."...
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Rebecca
- Oct 2, 2018
- 3 min
Sanctification, Part 1
I've been attempting—again—to memorize the book of Romans. My brain is getting duller as I age. Memorization becomes more difficult. But...
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Rebecca
- Sep 25, 2018
- 7 min
Celebrating Sukkot
Did you know that God commanded His people to have two eight-day holidays or vacations every year? One is in the spring around...
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Rebecca
- Sep 18, 2018
- 4 min
Day of Atonement
Tonight the Day of Atonement begins, the 10th day of Tishri, the 7th month of the Jewish calendar, from sundown to sundown. The Day of...
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Rebecca
- Sep 11, 2018
- 5 min
Fall Feasts: Rosh HaShanah
Today 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...
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Rebecca
- Aug 28, 2018
- 3 min
The Bible Like Rain
Reading the Bible is like rain gently falling on your heart and life: cleansing, nourishing, replenishing. In fact, God Himself likens...
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Rebecca
- Aug 21, 2018
- 3 min
The Water of the Word
My 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...
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