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By Brenda Parsons, READ MORE > 42 Reads
On Mon, 10/12/2020 - 03:35 PM

In Psalm 40:2 King David wrote, “He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire”. In recalling an article that I once read in Readers Digest, there were a couple of guys who went Duck hunting in a rural area in the northeastern part of Anchorage Alaska.

Leaving one place and going to another

By Brenda Parsons, READ MORE > 32 Reads
On Tue, 10/06/2020 - 10:29 AM

Where are you headed? What direction are you going? What are you taking with you as you go? Those questions are simple questions that apply to any trip that we may take. Upon telling Moses that the Israelites could leave Egypt, Pharaoh had his own demands in order to let them go.

Wondering in a spiritual wilderness

By Brenda Parsons, READ MORE > 39 Reads
On Sat, 09/26/2020 - 05:17 PM

Few things will put us in a spiritual wilderness to wonder faster, than a critical spirit. A critical spirit zaps all the joy out of our spiritual walk and leaves us with a dry and dessert feeling, as we find ourselves wondering around trying to figure out exactly what happened to our peace and spiritual joy.

Do away with the habit of forsaking

By Brenda Parsons, READ MORE > 36 Reads
On Sun, 09/20/2020 - 12:48 PM

The book of Hebrews was written to Christians who had endured hard struggles with many sufferings as in Hebrews 10:32. It was written to prevent them from abandoning what they had been taught and drifting away as many had started doing.

Change how you see, not what

By Brenda Parsons, READ MORE > 73 Reads
On Sun, 09/20/2020 - 11:51 AM

In a world of photo shops and apps we can achieve instant gratification by giving us the enhancement of what we seek to make us look better than what we believe we actually are. It’s easy to find these apps that give us the appearance of what we want, rather than what we may actually be seeing.

What kind of man was He?

By Brenda Parsons, READ MORE > 59 Reads
On Sun, 09/20/2020 - 11:05 AM

I am thankful today that God does not give me what I actually deserve, but shows me grace and mercy in spite of my sinful nature according to Psalm 103:10 and if not careful, I can succumb to that nature at any given time. His word tell us in Ps.

Returning to your first love

By Brenda Parsons, READ MORE > 49 Reads
On Sat, 09/19/2020 - 10:12 PM

From early times the Israelites had a tendency to turn away from God. But when they became broken and showed the desire to repent, God always let them come back. In one of Jesus’ parables, a man’s son shamed his father as he ran off to a far country to squander his life in wrong choices.

See the flowers and the vase

By Brenda Parsons, READ MORE > 35 Reads
On Sat, 09/19/2020 - 08:11 PM

As I sat in church this past Sunday morning taking in the message, the flowers that sat on the Remembrance Table in front of the podium, caught my eye. As I stared at the flowers, I realized as I looked away and then looked back, that I had hardly noticed the vase that held the flowers at my first glance at them.

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