Wow! So much happens in these next chapters of our Acts Bible Study! It’s hard to find just one thing to write about! So quickly does this new church face persecution and death, but also so quickly do we see examples of God’s power and might. [Tweet ” it is very rare that God does things […]
Acts: Begin With Prayer
Can you imagine? Imagine the excitement! The anticipation! Christ is risen and you have seen Him! You know the whole world will never be the same! What is going to happen next? As I started my study in Acts this morning the passage that stood out to me was this one particular verse: He said to […]
Found In The Blind Place: A Poem About Trust
Found In The Blind Place A Poem About Trust By Joy Aletheia Stevens ~ Step, Step, Step, One Foot at a time, As my voice chokes out a strangled “help!’ And I reach for the Divine. ~ Sometimes seeing eyes are very blind, And hearts alone can see, And only when our hands are in […]
Beauty For Ashes
As life defining moments go, it was one of those big ones. I was fifteen. I was sitting up on the roof of our house. I’d been told earlier that I was sick, some type of hepatitis. My world had shattered, even then I didn’t know how much. All I knew at that point was that […]
The Tree Falls: A Journey from Need, into Gratitude, into Trust.
The wind is howling outside, belying the idea of warmth that a clear sky and a shining sun show through my window. Trees are toppling, weakened by the drought. I sit inside safely, with a twinkling tree, and the warmth of all the decorations still around me, to sooth my heart. Soon enough this tree is […]
Hope For Tomorrow
“Hope” is the thing with feathers— That perches in the soul— And sings the tune without the words— And never stops—at all— And sweetest—in the Gale—is heard— And sore must be the storm— That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm— I’ve heard it in the chillest land— And on the strangest […]
Rest In Him
We are broke. And I’m not just talking treading water broke, I’m talking under water, drowning, not even gasping for air because there isn’t any air, broke. Our bills this week amount to about three times the size of our paycheck. And that is after getting help for rent and food and scrimping and cutting […]
The Shadow of Death
Why? I see the pain, the suffering in the world and am overwhelmed. I see, I taste the fruits of death. The old, the young, the guilty, the innocent. So many robbed of life before their time. The child just waking up to life. The young woman, murdered by someone she thought she loved. I’ve seen […]
Worry Box
Worry Box A Poem By Joy Aletheia Stevens ~ I put my worry in a box, And laid it at the cross. It was no great sacrifice, And certainly no loss. ~ But then I took it up again, And took it to myself, As if it was a long lost friend, Or some great […]
Our Defence
Justice. There is something deep inside of each of us that cries out for it. Especially in how people treat us. Someone talks about us behind our backs and we want justice. Someone is rude, or even mean to us, and we want justice. Someone treats us unfairly and we want justice. We rise up […]