2 Kings 6:8-23

I was snuggled in, watching “Persuasion,” a Jane Austen novel set to film. I was struck by a line that a woman says to a man. It goes like this, “I’d rather be tossed in a ditch by the man I love than to go steadily along without him.” (Caveat: “tossed in a ditch” was not referring to abuse, but rat…

I was snuggled in, watching “Persuasion,” a Jane Austen novel set to film. I was struck by a line that a woman says to a man. It goes like this, “I’d rather be tossed in a ditch by the man I love than to go steadily along without him.” (Caveat: “tossed in a ditch” was not referring to abuse, but rat…

In a recent testimony shared on Teaching Humble Hearts, Elaine, a devout Christian, boldly declared, "Fear was my foe." Perhaps, at some point, you have sensed that familiar grip of fear too—whether it be the anxiety about the future, the unease of impending changes, or the shadow of mortality. Yet,...…

Hebrews 11:35-38 Faith can be expected to be responded AGAINST. “35 Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused to be released, so that they might gain a better resurrection. 36 Some faced jeers and flogging, while still others were chained and put in prison. 37 They were stoned; they were sawn in two; they were put to death by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated— 38 the world was not worthy of th…

Hebrews 11:35-38 Faith can be expected to be responded AGAINST. “35 Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused to be released, so that they might gain a better resurrection. 36 Some faced jeers and flogging, while still others were chained and put in prison. 37 They were stoned; they were sawn in two; they were put to death by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated— 38 the world was not worthy of th…