Contending for the faith | Making Disciples | Equipping the Saints for Ministry
By Jeannette Haley Sometimes when your brain becomes weary and you feel like you’re on“overload” this question “Does it really matter?” can sneak its way into your mind.Does it really matter if I get up early so much can be accomplished, or does itreally matter if I go to work today, or does it really […]
Oh! How we love rewards and perks. I remember as I child the joy I felt when rewarded for bringing the most friends to Sunday school, or memorizing the weekly Bible verses, or sometimes hymns. Of all the rewards I received, the little white cross that glowed in my dark room at night was my […]
By Jeannette Haley There’s a traditional old round we “Oldsters” used to sing in elementaryschool that went like this: “Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream.Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.” That old song finds its wayinto my mind often these days as I watch throngs of people glibly “floating” […]
FITTEDBy Jeannette Haley It’s amazing how sometimes an item of clothing that looks beautiful on thecoat hanger looks anything but wonderful on you when you try it on, while atother times, something that doesn’t grab your attention because it looksunappealing on a coat hanger can end up being one of the best-fitting and mostattractive pieces […]
Perhaps you’ve read the list going around on social media, or on certain Web Sites, that contains the names of many of the well-known Bible characters that were used by God along with a short, cryptic description of each one, such as “Leah was ugly” and “Timothy had an ulcer” of which neither statement is […]
WALKING WITHOUT FEETBy Jeannette Haley Feet are one of the most important parts of the body, and probably one of themost neglected. That is, until they begin to develop painful problems whichserves to remind us just how badly we need our feet! Just think how tired, sore and dirty people’s feet were in Jesus’ day. […]
SAFE IN THE STORMBy Jeannette Haley What took place many years ago, when I was in my late teens, I shall neverforget. The experience was terrifying. Hanging on for dear life as the towering 14’waves threatened to broadside and sink the small pleasure craft was accompaniedby uncontrollable seasickness. Even though my mother’s husband had been […]
GLORY AND FIREBy Jeannette Haley How great is the danger in these end times! This great danger is not thedanger of bio or nuclear weapons, nor is it the danger of natural and man-madedisasters, nor the danger of satanic globalist tyrants and despots although all ofthis, and much more, is very real. The greatest danger […]
THE DANGER OF BEING “GOOD”By Jeannette Haley Perhaps there would be fewer misunderstandings, mistakes andmisinterpretations if we all carried around with us a Webster’s Dictionary alongwith a Concordance of the Bible. That way we could compare our understandingof what certain words mean with what God’s Word says, in context.Take the word “good” for example. When […]
WHAT ARE YOU HOPING FOR?By Jeannette Haley “Why art thou cast down, o my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me?Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance,And my God.” – Psalm 42:11 Here we go again, standing on the peak, as it were, of […]