by Sami | Dec 7, 2010 | Devotions, Faith
As parents, we often talk about giving our kids all the big things we didn’t have when we were young. Even though I frequently tell my kids they don’t need any more stuff and I privately pledge not to buy them any more “junk”, I still find myself stopping in store...
by Sami | Dec 6, 2010 | Articles, Faith
Sitting in church, I couldn’t help but watch a mother and her young daughter sitting in front of me. The mother was stroking her little girl’s long, brown hair and she seemed to be relishing both her mother’s touch and the proximity she was experiencing. Just across...
by Sami | Nov 28, 2010 | Faith, Reviews
When I heard our pastor tell us that we were going to watch a tape of an ex-NFL player’s personal testimony for our message today, I chuckled to myself. I figured they just wanted to phone in the Thanksgiving Sunday service because everyone was too stuffed or...
by Sami | Nov 17, 2010 | Articles, Faith, Reviews
There’s just something about girlfriends. Regardless of whether you’re six or sixty, a girl needs to be surrounded by her friends. As children, we invite them over for playdates to dress up and have a tea party. As teenagers, we long to reach the age to meet them at...
by Sami | Nov 17, 2010 | Devotions, Faith, Faith in Action, God's Will, Reviews
“As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me...
by Sami | Nov 4, 2010 | Devotions, Faith, Faith in Action
After just finishing with another crazy morning of trying to get the kids to school on time, I sat down to read my daily thought from Oswald Chambers’ “My Utmost for His Highest”. In it today, he describes how in Matthew 11:28, Jesus says, “Come to me…”. “Come” is...
