Category: scriptures

  • In A Little While…

    In A Little While…

    Do you remember when you were a child with anticipation for your birthday or Christmas?  Perhaps you were excited to know that your grandparents were coming to your house.  Those days seemed to go on forever.  You couldn’t help but ask your parents multiple times when the event would take place.  Remember their reply, “In…

  • Anger – Part 4

    Anger – Part 4

    Of Course, I’m Angry! Self-righteousness and anger are a combination we resort to all too often.  These two attitudes come together when we think we are right or when we’ve been sinned against. The old expression, “my way or the highway” characterizes how we can fall into the trap of thinking we know best and…

  • Anger – Part 3

    Anger – Part 3

    Passive Aggressive Passive aggressive is a term used to describe a form of anger.  Most of us who struggle with these tendencies don’t believe that we are angry at all.  We need to understand what this terminology means so that we can recognize when we fall into the trap of being passive aggressive.  The Merriam-Webster…

  • Anger – Part 2

    Anger – Part 2

     Handling Anger Biblically Anger is a well-traveled road.  It comes in many forms:  explosive, silent, aggressive, passive-aggressive and vengeance.  There is a tendency to think that because I don’t scream or throw things then I am not angry.  Believe it or not, there are those who claim they are never angry.  Both of these statements…

  • Anger – Part 1

    Anger – Part 1

    Are you Angry? What determines an angry person?  The dictionary tells us that anger is a feeling of displeasure resulting from injury, mistreatment, and opposition usually showing itself in a desire to fight back.  When using this definition we are given the impression that anger comes from outside of us.  It really has more to…

  • Single Women – Part 3

    Single Women – Part 3

    SINGLE WOMEn And the Church You are not a victim of circumstance.  Your identity is either in Christ or in the world.  If you are a follower of Christ, then you have a charge from the Word of God. “her aim is to be devoted to the Lord in both body and spirit” 1 Corinthians…

  • Single Women – Part 2

    Single Women – Part 2

    Miriam Let’s take a look at a single woman from God’s Word.  Her name is Miriam, the sister of Moses and Aaron.  It would be very difficult to call this woman a victim in her singleness.  God chose Miriam to be one of the leaders of the children of Israel as they left Egypt and…