Weekly Blog Post

Week 42, Friday Ann Iorg “Don’t call me Naomi, call me Mara,” she answered, “for the Almighty has made me very bitter. I left full, but the Lord has brought me back empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the Lord has pronounced [judgment] on me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?” . ….

Week 42, Thursday Ann Iorg By faith Rahab the prostitute received the spies in peace and didn’t perish with those who disobeyed. Hebrews 11:31 (hcsb) Rahab was a prostitute, yet she is in the lineage of King David and Jesus (see Matthew 1:5). God searches for those who really believe in Him. He is ready and…

Week 41, Thursday Karyn Wilton For I hope in You, O Lord; You will answer, O Lord my God. Psalm 38:15 (nasb) Is there someone in your life who you are patiently waiting to come into a saving knowledge of our Lord and Savior? Are you standing at the gates of heaven, rattling them frantically as…

Week 42, Wednesday Ann Iorg As He was passing by, He saw a man blind from birth. His disciples questioned Him: “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” “Neither this man or his parents sinned,” Jesus answered. “[This came about] so that God’s works might be displayed in him.” John…

Week 41, Weekend Karyn Wilton Dear brothers and sisters, be patient as you wait for the Lord’s return. . . . Take courage, for the coming of the Lord is near. James 5:7-8 (nlt) When I was a little girl, my elder sister drowned. I am told that I would ask my parents when she was…

Week 41, Friday Karyn Wilton Be patient with everyone. See that no one repays another with evil for evil, but always seek after that which is good for one another and for all people. 1 Thessalonians 5:14-15 (nasb) My daughter asked me a question while we were driving home from school one day: “Do you ever…

Week 41, Wednesday Karyn Wilton But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me . . . Christ Jesus might display his unlimited patience as an example for those who would believe on him and receive eternal life. 1 Timothy 1:16 We could not encourage our hearts to be patient in any…

Week 41, Tuesday Karyn Wilton I waited patiently for the Lord; and He inclined to me and heard my cry. He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, and He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm. And He put a new song in my…

Week 41, Monday Karyn Wilton “For I know the plans that I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11 (nasb) I remember sitting at the kitchen table with my grandmother when I was a little girl, sipping hot tea and…

Week 40, Weekend Shari Falwell Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. John 1:3 After experiencing the deaths of three dear people in a short period of time, my mother thought life would take a positive turn only to find that her son faced his most difficult challenge:…