The Donkey

April 14, 2025
by Debbie McGrath

“You will find a young donkey tied there…Untie it and bring it here.” Mark 11:2 HCSB The works of author Max Lucado have achieved remarkable success, with over 92 million copies. My library includes many of his books. Reverend Billy Graham has preached to more than two hundred million people during a span of more […]

WHAT ARE BREATH PRAYERS?

Breath prayers combine two powerful tools that can help calm anxiety: the science of deep breathing and prayers of meditation on God’s Word. We often tend to separate science and faith as if they are contradictory forces at war with one another. But in reality, the science of the brain and body doesn’t contradict the […]

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

I believe having a grateful heart has more power than we can imagine. Being thankful is obviously important because God’s Word is filled with instructions and reminders to give thanks and be thankful. The words thanks and thanksgiving appear in approximately 100 verses in the Bible, and we are told to give thanks 73 times. […]

2022 – A Year of Trusting God

Something about the start of the New Year makes us all wants to live this year better than the last. It feels like January 1 is a fresh start. We make resolutions. We start new disciplines. A lot of it feels like striving to do more, be better. Many resolutions are made to do something […]

Who Guides You?

Every day, millions of people around the world abandon their usual scientific worldview and consult horoscopes, believing that somehow their positions of the plants can affect what happens to them. When you think about it, it’s crazy(as well as forbidden in scripture Deuteronomy 18:10-14) Astrology is the “interpretation” of an assumed influence the stars (and planets) […]

PRAYER MATTERS

I don’t count myself an expert on prayer. That maybe a strange way to start a blog about prayer, but it is the truth. Many of my friends are more accomplished prayer-ers. I have read lots of great books that have given me insight into the practice of prayer in general. What I have learned […]

God’s Bigger Purpose

Butterflies and bees they are both workers in more way than one. While they are busy floating from flower to flower drinking in nectar, they are also cross pollinating. Their focus is on the nectar, but they’re actually performing a miracle by creation without even knowing it. That is the way God works in your […]

Praise is our Weapon

March 20, 2021
by Debbie McGrath

Praise is adoration of God for who He is, His person, His character, His names. It is loving God because He is God. The Bible gives more exhortations to praise than to pray, because God is altogether lovely, holy, and completely worthy of our worship. REASONS TO PRAY Praise is the atmosphere of the throne […]

Proverbs 31 – I CHOOSE TO LAUGH!

Thank you, Pastor Chuck, for encouraging us to read through the book of Proverbs this month. In Proverbs 31, I love verse 25: she can laugh at the days to come! The reason I can laugh at the days to come even when the world appears dark, I know that God is in control of […]

Sovereignty of God Proverbs 21:1

At first glance this list of Old Testament proverbs may appear like a hodgepodge of random thoughts. A closer look, however, reveals a common theme we tend to overlook or ignore, and that is the theme of God’s absolute sovereignty over His creation. By sovereignty, I mean God’s right as the King of the universe […]

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