Month: September 2023

This is my most treasured corner in our entire home. It may not look like a whole lot, but it’s the place where I begin every new day with Jesus. I wake up early while it’s still dark outside and make my way to this little corner. Before Rip bought…

It was one of the greatest nights for Rip and I last night and here’s why … we both were home early enough for us to do some “home-keeping” around the house. We were able to keep to our needed chores that living on 4+ acres requires and simply ‘put…

Rip and I have a wonderful client, (and she’s quickly become a dear friend!), who asked us to help her with some interior and exterior projects for her new home. Once we had the initial walk through, Rip and I were both ready to get started. One of the projects…

All of my Southern Baptist life, each church where I have been a member had a staff of pastoral/leadership and a body of deacons. Church members served as bible study teachers and served in other areas of ministerial needs such as church-wide events, within the prayer ministry, homebound ministry, and…

Since the mid 1990’s, I’ve treasured the devotional book, “Morning and Evening” by Charles Hadden Spurgeon. As Spurgeon himself has written, this is how the LORD has used this one book in my life … “My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a…

As I got to the office this morning, I read today’s devotional from Truth for Life and it blessed me and encouraged me so much, that I wanted to share it with you.     “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater…

This devotional is written by Alistair Begg   “Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?” Proverbs 27:4 Jealousy has been the downfall of humanity since our very beginning. In Genesis 4 it was Cain’s jealousy of his brother Abel that led to murder. While it might be…

Many people profess to follow Christ, yet don’t display the fruit, or rather the biblical distinguishing marks, of that confession in their lives. Others leave the faith altogether, some after years of church involvement. Were those people ever saved? John MacARthur responds in this 6 message series, The Gospel According…

A question I’ve been asked from time to time is, “Can I mix blues with greens, or greens with grays when I’m decorating a room?” And that’s when I love to take them by the hand, walk with them outside and ask, “What do you think?” (smile)  It’s also when…

What is it about the calendar saying “September” that nudges us to peruse through magazines and Pinterest boards looking for fall-ish menus, fall-ish fashion, and fall-ish home décor? I even found myself the other day walking in the back of our land, noticing all the changes in nature and thinking,…