Sanmi and Martina Adesokun, Married 12/30/11 – (photo by our granddaughter, Alicia Stokes) “Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash [...]
Archive for December, 2011
Posted in Family Joy, tagged God's love reflected in a Christian marriage on December 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Have a beautiful Christmas!
Posted in Christmas Poem, Poems by Margaret Longenecker Been, tagged Christ is Coming Again, Christmas poem, He is Coming Again Soon!, Israel, King of Kings and Lord of Lords!, Our Messiah is Coming Again! on December 18, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Star Shadows Tiny child, lost in sleep— inexorable sleep winged on Hebrew lullaby . . . Did one small hand emerge in sleep from swaddling cloth, a tiny starhand turning under stable-filtered light of greater star? And did that greater star spill shadows on a mother’s pondering? As she grasped the starhand, did she see [...]
That Unruly Tongue!
Posted in The Christian Life, tagged Christian Living, The Importance of Words, The Unruly Tongue on December 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless.” James 1:26 The above passage is so succinct, it makes me shudder! When I consider the Biblical view of an unruly tongue, I’m thrown upon God’s mercy for any and every time I have failed to keep a [...]
December 7th . . . remember Pearl Harbor, but move on!
Posted in He is Coming Again Soon!, Hope in Trouble and Adversity, Pearl Harbor, The Christian Life, We must forgive!, tagged Biblical Discernment in End Times, Christ is Coming Again, Christian Living, He is Coming Again Soon!, Hitler, King of Kings and Lord of Lords!, Oliver Cromwell, Our Messiah is Coming Again!, Pearl Harbor, Salvation at Calvary, Stalin, Trail of Tears, Upholding Biblical Christianity, We must forgive! on December 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Every year at this time , since I began blogging, I’ve commemorated Pearl Harbor with a photo of the disaster. This year, I can’t bring myself to feature the photo. Recently, whenever I think of Japan I think of the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Necessary from a military standpoint? Yes! Unthinkably tragic from a human standpoint? YES! We need [...]
