Celebrating Saintly and Smart Women like Abigail! Happy Mother’s Day! Let’s think together about an amazing Bible heroine you may not know well. On Mother’s Day, many people think about—and many preachers preach about—the Proverbs 31 woman. That is good and fitting, but the Bible contains more than descriptions of godly women; it gives us real-life stories of remarkable women and their faithful God. Let’s consider Abigail’s life and draw some lessons for our spiritual lives,

Light the Fires of Meditative Passion for God! Part 2 In the previous post , we considered the burning and hellish thoughts that can harm you as you lie down to sleep, especially if you cannot fall asleep quickly. In certain seasons, burning lust and burning anger appear as frequent nighttime visitors. You might be missing sleep simply because of them! But there can be more bedtime problems that bedevil you. Just as you must turn from consuming lust and overflowing ang

Part 1 - Don't Kindle that Fire! Francine Hughes burned her husband to death on their bed after enduring years of horrific domestic abuse. Her arrest and trial in 1977 led to the writing of The Burning Bed in 1980, later adapted into a movie in 1984. Based upon the popularity of the movie and the issues of abuse that it raised, a new term entered the English vocabulary: "Burning Bed Syndrome.” 1 What an image for a bed! The place we associate with rest becomes a place of

Making Your Devotions Portable Ah, “Just have one for the road!” That kind of advice, terrible for one who might drive home drunk, is...