My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow Me (John 10:27, NASB). When do we begin learning to recognize voices? My younger daughter, Cait, taught me the answer shortly after her birth. She had been born in the wee hours of September 30th, and I was exhausted from the excitement…
By Karen Jurgens “The Lord said to Joshua, ‘See, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and valiant warriors’” ~ Joshua 6:2, NASB. During difficult times, how do we fight? By going to battle on our knees. Prayer is the most powerful weapon we have to come against the enemy, but we…
By Karen Remember when you were a young child, beginning life’s journey full of hopes and dreams for the future? Along the way, you lost your precious dreams as you traveled down the highway of life. Perhaps someone stole them, so you mourned their loss and believed they were gone forever. Or an unexpected accident…
Saturday began as a perfect day…the balmy weather almost whispering, it’s spring! Blue skies framed the background of the bright lemon sun, toasty-warm. I shed my winter coat in exchange for the day’s warmth, so liberating after days upon days of knife-cutting cold. Uptown, Dallas. City sidewalks teeming with sweater-clad people of every age. Moms…
Can you imagine that Christmas is exactly one week away? In honor of the season, I’d like to share with you a previously published post from Christmas, 2014. I hope it will be a blessing to you today. Do the approaching holidays bring you joy? Or not? Everywhere you go, anticipation of Christmas Day abounds….
