It must be 40 years since Psalm 139 has become my goto psalm for praying for myself.  I love that the Lord knows me so well that my thoughts, words, actions, even my attempts to...

Although the word “holy”  appears more than 600 times in the Bible, there are only two times that it appears three times in succession.  The first is in Isaiah 6:1-4 In the year that King...

John 11:1-43 In the “Introduction” to his book, Brave Companions, historian David McCullough, makes this statement: “The past after all is only another name for someone else’s present. How would things turn out? They knew...

Recently I found a story I wrote as an assignment for a correspondence course in “Writing for Children and Teenagers” that I was taking in 1992.  This particular story was supposed to be a “fictionalized”...

I’ve forgotten the actual date, but I think it was Good Friday,1993, when we had a pageant that included a crucifixion. Our worship area at that time was rather patched together and we did a...

by Carolyn Schmitt I have a lot of respect for Nicodemus. Though it isn’t recorded, he must have been in various crowds when Jesus was telling parables and healing various people. So, the more he...

by Carolyn Schmitt There are a number of women named “Mary” mentioned in the New Testament:  Mary, the mother of Jesus; Mary the mother of James and Joseph; Mary, Martha’s sister; Mary the wife of...

by Carolyn Schmitt It is interesting to me that while Peter’s denial is mentioned in all four gospels, only John tells about Jesus restoring Peter and giving him an additional occupation. I wish I knew...

by Carolyn Schnitt Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6 The...

by Carolyn Schmitt During our Devotional team discussion, it was agreed that the “context” for each of the scriptures in Chapter 6 referred back to Verse 1 in various ways.   It’s easy to say a...

by Carolyn Schmitt My, how time flies!  Just three months ago it was the first Sunday in Advent, then we celebrated Jesus’s birth and the start of 2024 and now we are three weeks into...

by Carolyn Schmitt Exodus 16:1-36 and Numbers 11:1-34 both tell about the Israelites complaining to Moses and Aaron about not having the kind of food available to them when they were slaves in Egypt.  And...