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written: May 19, 2022 The Story of Christ Through Color Not sure if any you remember or perhaps you never experienced the wordless book from your childhood.  Recently, it was brought to my memory.  It was a special story and song my mother taught my two brothers and I, as young children, when we were growing up.   But first a little back story.  My mother was a stay-at-home mom for much of our lives, until my youngest brother Donald went to school.  But all throughout our years when we were young;  my brothers, and I recall and reminisce about times we had together.  It was a regular practice that my mom had with us children.  It was called “Together Time.”  This was a time when my mom would pull out all her crafty supplies and spend quality time teaching, instilling values and creating bonds with us children.  To this day my brothers and I talk about this time.   During one of these times she taught us a song to go with ...

 written:  December 19, 2021 God's Call on a Christian Marriage God gives us all a calling on our lives.  We need to open our eyes and hearts to His calling.  Not only does he have a calling on our own individual lives He places several callings on every Christian  marriage.  God has a specific purpose for each Christian marriage in addition to special callings for some marriages.   When we fix our eyes on Him we can see His purpose for our lives.   There are several general callings that every Christian marriage has.   The first of these is PRAYER .   Prayer is a simple way to communicate with God.  Philippians 4:6-7 (NIV) Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. You are to become a praying couple.  It is i...

 written:   November 25th, 2021 How desperate are you… How desperate are you for the blessing? Are you willing to pray night and day? How long will you knock on the door of blessing? Until your knuckles bleed? Until you knock the door down? The parable of the persistent widow as found in the book of Luke chapter 18 verses 1 - 8 1 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. 2 He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. 3 And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’ 4 “For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’” 6 And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. 7 And will not God bring abou...