Last week, we began our study of the Parable of the Prodigal Son. I love that Jesus knew exactly how to illustrate spiritual truth in ways which everyone could identify with if they had ears to hear. He had the Pharisees in mind when He spoke this parable, but what lessons can we learn? We

We learned last week that Queen Esther and her fellow Jews fasted and prayed for three days before her mission to go before the king. The topic of fasting sparked my curiosity because I have very little background in it. I didn’t think it was something I could ever take part in because of a

A friend sent me a photo she took of a gorgeous stained-glass window depicting the Tree of Life (it’s in the Pinterest Pin below.) I’ve wanted to write a blog post about it ever since. A recent visit to the USS Arizona Memorial site in Hawaii brought it back to my memory. There is a

Human emotions and feelings are part of our unique character make-up. While the scientific explanations of both made my eyes cross, for the sake of this blog, we will define an emotion as a God-given feeling such as happiness, sorrow, love, fear, anger, joy, grief, etc. I don’t know about you, but sometimes my emotions