THE PARABLE OF THE PEAR TREE Author Unknown
Found on verseoftheday.com
A father wanted to teach his four sons the lesson of not judging something or someone too quickly, and so he called his four sons together and said "I have a task for you. I want you, my eldest son to go out into our fields…
for the waters are come in unto my soul.” Psalm 69:1
Is one more wave all it will take for you to go under?
In today’s world we can feel this way much of the time. All I have to do is think about politics and I begin sinking. Our walk is often a step by step…
I was thinking about thankfulness last night and remembered reading this so I decided to share it with you today. I hope it blesses you as much as it blesses me. Perhaps it will be a good reminder too, I know it was for me.
Thankfulness is the presence of gratitude and the absence of murmuring.…
“O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.” Psalm 69:5
We all long to be known – to be understood. But, do we want to be known to this extent?
As I read this verse this morning I found it strangely comforting.
Since there is nothing hid from my God –…
Does David’s Old Testament Kindness to Mephibosheth have Meaning for You?
This is one of my favorite Old Testament stories. It is recorded in 2 Samuel 9.
It begins with David asking, “Is there still anyone who is left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?”
He finds out that there…
Are you as taken aback as I was by this question?
It was asked in a message Beall Phillips gave at an Edwardian Tea given as part of the Titanic 100 Event that Vision Forum has been putting together to honor those who lost their lives in this tragedy.
I hope you too will be challenged as…
"For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:" - Proverbs 23:7 KJV
What do you spend your time thinking about? Scripture tells us what we should be thinking about:
“Finally, brethren,
whatsoever things are true,
whatsoever things are honest,
whatsoever things are just,
whatsoever things are pure,
whatsoever things are lovely,
whatsoever things are of good report;
if there be any virtue,
and…