We Shine as Lights in This World

We Shine as Lights in This World

When I was a young girl, our family vacations were often camping trips. My dad and mom would take my sisters and me to a beautiful campsite in the forest or near a seashore and set up our big tent, our camp stove, and several lawn chairs. This would be our home for a few… Continue Reading

The Magi Find the Young King

The Magi Find the Young King

Journaling is one way I am able to document and recognize my personal spiritual growth. By faithfully writing daily entries in my journal, I have the ability to look back through the pages and observe how I am growing in God’s Word one day at a time. Through my journal I can remember and reflect… Continue Reading

Anna the Prophetess

Anna the Prophetess

It is wonderful to see the quality of the men and women surrounding the birth of the only begotten Son of God, Jesus Christ. The good news that the Messiah was born was not celebrated by all, but it was celebrated by faithful believers who had diligently watched for and anticipated Christ’s coming, and whom… Continue Reading

Simeon Meets the Christ Child

Simeon Meets the Christ Child

Forty-one days after Jesus Christ’s birth, his parents, Joseph and Mary, brought him to the Temple to present him to the Lord. This was according to an Old Testament law that many Judean parents would have upheld from generation to generation. As Joseph and Mary walked through the Temple, it is possible there would have… Continue Reading

The Shepherds Receive God’s Announcement

The Shepherds Receive God’s Announcement

One of my favorite pastimes as a parent is to read God’s Word with my children and talk to them about it. Helping their young minds understand the remarkable events God had recorded in His Word is such a blessing and a privilege. One such event, found in Luke 2, is God’s angels appearing to… Continue Reading

Making Time to Fellowship with Believers

Making Time to Fellowship with Believers

It was a cold fall morning when we set out to go to the park. We had a plan to meet with people from our home fellowship that morning and exercise together. Despite the cold, a good number of people came, and we had a great time fellowshipping together. As we walked, we shared our… Continue Reading

Keys to Operating Our Ministry of Reconciliation

Keys to Operating Our Ministry of Reconciliation

Imagine you had a very rich uncle who left you his big mansion in his will. You receive the keys to this mansion, and they’re really old keys that open even older doors with countless mysteries and treasures behind them. You finally get to find out what is inside, and who knows what fun and… Continue Reading

Paul’s Example of Reconciling Others

Paul’s Example of Reconciling Others

Recently I was sent to an area for six months of focused outreach in our ministry’s Way Disciple outreach program. The area my team and I were sent to wasn’t heavily populated. They didn’t have a lot of the popular “hot spots” that I was used to frequenting in the cities I had lived in… Continue Reading

Who Do We Lead to Christ?

Who Do We Lead to Christ?

God wants “…all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth” (I Timothy 2:4). As born-again believers, we are the ones entrusted with leading others to Christ, “…for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” but by the name of Jesus Christ… Continue Reading

We Have the Ministry of Reconciliation

We Have the Ministry of Reconciliation

Out of all the ages in God’s spiritual timetable, out of all the millennia that have come and gone since Adam was created, you and I have the great privilege of living in the Grace Administration. It’s only in this Grace Administration that men and women have been given the responsibility and honor of reconciling… Continue Reading