I don’t know who said this first, but I was told at an early age, “If you want to have a friend, you must be a friend.” Undoubtedly, you were given the same little adage, as well. For goodness…
Reminder – Public Service Announcement: Advent Devotional based on past blogs, entitled “I Dropped Baby Jesus” available by clicking on the link. XXXX In an earlier post, I mentioned that friendships are discovered along the pathway of our lives. Yet once…
Public Service Announcement: Advent Devotional based on past blogs, entitled “I Dropped Baby Jesus” available by clicking on the link. XXXX Here’s a focal verse for the week. It’s found in Proverbs 17:17(a). Ponder it. It’s only six words,…
Gotta tell ya, I’m a little discouraged as I sit to reflect on paper about friendships this morning. I’m not one to dwell too long on the negative, and after three weeks of unfriends, I rather want to throw up…
To repeat: This week, we play Sherlock, and stalk “the scoffer (to mock, deride, be disdainful…literally, one who makes a mouth at).” After, wading through many passages in Proverbs, allow me to share a tale of two young women.…
Three verses have been driving the direction of this blog for the last couple weeks, and at least another more. Here they are: A righteous man chooses his friends carefully (Proverbs 12:26a). Be not deceived, bad company corrupts good…
Many years ago, Bay and I sat with a seasoned youth pastor over lunch. He was a gentleman greatly respected in the field. I don’t remember what brought up the topic, but we entered a conversation about friendships, and…
A few weeks back I spoke at a women’s retreat, and over four sessions, summarized the topic of joy (that was not easy trying to condense). At one point during the retreat, a friend asked me a question. Her…
Who doesn’t remember Michael W. Smith’s most popular Christian hit? In just .29 seconds, I found approximately 2,170,000 hits on the internet when I Google-searched for it. Released in 1983 and written for a friend who was moving away,…
David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness Ziph at Horesh. And Jonathan, Saul’s son, rose and went to David at Horesh, and strengthened his hand in God. 1 Samuel 23:15-16…