Wednesday Bible Study

09/04/2024

Here's a longish devotion on 1 Peter 5:6-11 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xsV5H9VqD9USfmBVzMH3_B4cvwIjpb_KODN_cbEn_Ys/edit?usp=sharing

about anxiety. Let me know what you think. Old photos of my menfolk for attention.

09/01/2024

Join the ladies of FBC Hornbeck for a Paint Party in our fellowship hall on Saturday, September 21st at 10:00 a.m.

$25 per person includes all supplies.

Please call 318-565-4321 to sign up.

Deadline is Sunday, September 15th!

Can't make it? Want to pay it forward? Consider donating any amount for another person to attend!

God Bless!

LADIES: We will be holding a Speak Jesus Paint Party in our fellowship hall on Saturday, September 21st at 10:00 a.m. Cost is $25 per person and includes all supplies. Please contact our church office at 318-565-4321 if you would like to sign up. Deadline is Sunday, September 15th!

08/07/2024

What scripture did you read this morning? Mine was Daniel chapter 9. And a sermon on Passing on God's Blessing from Charles Stanley. I pray you study the Word today and every day.

08/07/2024

Congratulations TTrudie Gilcrease You get to pick whichever Lynn Austin book you'd like off Amazon. You can check her out here!

https://lynnaustin.org/.

Message me with details on how to get the book to you!

I actually thought of Austin's book about King Hezekiah as I wrote the scene for A Fortunate Murder, where Mojo is in church not listening to the sermon and trying to figure out how to snoop in someone else's closet.

06/05/2023

I've been taking a break from social media, especially Facebook. While I appreciate the ability to have conversations with people I wouldn't otherwise get a chance to talk to except on social media, I was finding more and more that I was simply scrolling because I was ...bored.

And then something else would happen. I would get discontented, angry even. So, I stopped. It was hard at first. But I put up boundaries. I didn't just say no and try to go cold turkey. I took the app off the home screen of my phone and replaced it with a nice safe video game. When I was bored, I would play the video game. My game of choice was Hay Day. Big surprise.

Anyway. It helped a lot to fill in the time. I had just resigned from a part time job and needed a place holder for that time til I could figure out something else. Hay Day was a good a choice. It's clean. You can't spend a lot of time on it before you get bored with it (or at least that's true with me) or you accomplish all the tasks and have to wait for something to happen. I suppose someone could go broke playing it, but I would rather stick a fork in my eye than pay to play a video game.

Then I took a big leap and FB off my phone completely and allowed myself to look at it on my computer only. It's a lot less likely to be comfy, for sure, so therefore a lot less likely to annihilate my time. I now procrastinate my terrible habit of Facebook stalking. I know. How dare I.

I'm liking this new approach. I'm praying and listening to the Word and preachers I respect a LOT more. My discontent and anger at my close family for not being more like so and so has completely disappeared.

I am more interested in who they really are. I listen better.

The photo is a screen shot of a poem by Dora Greenwell. She's the one who wrote "My Savior, My God." Aaron Shust performed it on his album "Anything Worth Saying."

The first lines of that song often haunt my thoughts as I go about my day:

"I am not skilled to understand
what God has willed, what God has planned.
I only know at his right hand
Stands one who is my Savior...

I'd rather be haunted by that than what's going on in FB land.

Dora Greenwell is worth Googling...Have a great rest of your day. 🙂

02/07/2023

You can just bet that every single thing in your life is designed by God to bring you closer to Him.

This is what I learned in my dark time: You can just bet that every single thing in your life is designed by God to bring you closer to Him, to bring you into more dependence on Him, to strengthen …

12/29/2022

I’ve been reading the book Shattered Dreams by Larry Crabb. The first time I saw the book, I swore I would never read it. I was visiting a friend. We’d been having some awesome conversation about what had been going on in our lives (we were both dealing with some things we didn’t quite understand that was causing us discomfort, suffering and pain)....

I’ve been reading the book Shattered Dreams by Larry Crabb. The first time I saw the book, I swore I would never read it.  I was visiting a friend. We’d been having some awesome conversation a…

12/14/2022

Genesis has repeated uses of genealogies, which not only lists lineages but also introduces specific stories: Noah’s family line (6:9) Adam’s family line (5:1) The nations that stemmed from Noah’s sons (10:1) Abraham’s family (11:27) Ishmael’s family (25:12) Isaac’s family (25:19) Esau’s family (36:1) And finally, Jacob’s family (37:2) The genealogies indicate a shift from one story to the next and give context for the relationships between the Israelites and surrounding countries....

Genesis has repeated uses of genealogies, which not only lists lineages but also introduces specific stories: Noah’s family line (6:9) Adam’s family line (5:1) The nations that stemmed from Noah’s…

12/14/2022

But I'm not talking about your shopping. More, I'm talking about the real reason we give gifts: to remind us of the greatest gift! And that would be salvation through Jesus Christ. A young man in Honduras ponders scripture after accepting Jesus. I'm linking you up here to Pastor Joe McKeever, whom I became aware of when I worked at the…...

But I’m not talking about your shopping. More, I’m talking about the real reason we give gifts: to remind us of the greatest gift! And that would be salvation through Jesus Christ. A yo…