Have you ever seen people using their metal detector at the beach? Their hobby is looking for coins or other items of possible interest. I wouldn't be interested in doing it here but if I lived in … [Read more...]
Hosea 2:15
"...she shall sing there as in the days of her youth, as in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt..." I remember those days, Lord, right after I was born again. I remember the sense of … [Read more...]
Woad
Remember Mel Gibson in Braveheart? The battle scenes with the warriors and their blue painted faces? That blue paint or dye would have come from woad, a plant that has been used for about 2000 years … [Read more...]
The Rose-Red City of Petra
This is the pathway through the mountain that leads to the rose-red city of Petra in Jordan. Petra was the ancient city of a people called the Nabataeans. It's a mysterious place that dates to 600 BC. … [Read more...]
You Can Never Get to the End of God.
In Psalm 139, Scripture tells us that you can never get to the end of God. Where can I go from Your spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend into heaven, You are there. If I take … [Read more...]
Colonoscopy Tales
Just came home from work, which is an Endoscopy unit in a large hospital. For those of you without a medical background, that's where you go to have a colonoscopy (scope into the colon), an EGD (scope … [Read more...]
Hosea 2:8
"For she did not know that it was I who gave her grain, new wine and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold - which they prepared for Baal." I think this means that we take the good things that … [Read more...]
Hosea 1:3
"So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son..." Hosea 1:3 I've been studying the book of Hosea in bits and pieces since July. The Scripture says … [Read more...]
Highgate Cemetery, London
For a Tonawanda, NY girl who loves old cemeteries, a chance to visit Highgate, London's famous and wonderfully creepy Victorian cemetery, fulfilled a dream. Built in Victorian London in the 1830's, … [Read more...]
Golgotha
This is Golgotha, or the Place of the Skull, named in Scripture as the site where the Romans executed Jesus. This morning I was praying, and I thanked God for the single most … [Read more...]
