by debracelovsky | Dec 7, 2020 | Christmas
The past looks forward to the future. Nothing in the past will satisfy the hearts of men. We may ransack antiquity but we shall find there no substitute for Christ. W.F. Adeney, 19th c. minister and biblical scholar What does Alexander the Great have to do with the...
by debracelovsky | Dec 1, 2020 | Christmas
Behold the maidservant of the Lord. Let it be to me according to your word.Luke 1:38 Here at the beginning of Advent, and after a year that feels shredded, we turn once again to the Christmas story for beauty and for comfort in its familiar scenes and eternal promise....
by debracelovsky | Nov 16, 2020 | Family Life, Word
Life is a theater, so invite your audiences carefully. Not everyone should be given a seat in the front row of our lives. Unknown Some years ago, the speaker at our annual women’s retreat opened with the above quote. This idea of being mindful of the people we...
by debracelovsky | Nov 3, 2020 | Liberty, Prayer
For my thoughts are not Your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. Book of Isaiah 55:8-9 Lord Jesus: We acknowledge you as Sovereign,...
by debracelovsky | Oct 19, 2020 | Wordmistress
Is it really that hard to have an interesting two-way, face-to-face conversation nowadays, you ask? Yes, dear reader, it is. Faux conversations are in vogue. They occur when one person, interested only in conveying a vast amount of information he or she considers...
