All posts for the month January, 2017

Gems From Pastor Jim

by Jim Hughes Ps. 128:1 How happy are those who fear the LORD–all who follow his ways! There is much resistance today about fearing the Lord. The thinking is that because we live in grace, God is no longer to be feared. The emphasis is on God’s love and not His holy nature. […]

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No More Prison

by Rebekah Beene It’s been many years but I used to go with a group of women for prison ministry. One of the things I learned while participating in this was that being set free was fearful to many of those women we ministered to. In fact, some would commit a crime again […]

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Write, They Said

by Suzanne D. Williams Write, they said. Write your first draft, just jot down the words and don’t look back. Right words. Wrong words. Bad phrases. Poor grammar. Telling, instead of showing. Head hopping. Everything goes as long as the words land on the page. Write, they said. Don’t reread. Don’t correct yourself.  […]

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Youth and Young Adult Historical Adventure Books

by Mary C. Findley Hope and the Knight of the Black Lion An earl’s son tempts seventeen-year-old-Hope to rebel against an arranged marriage in medieval England. Colchester Manor is attacked and Hope’s family is missing. Only two men, one a memory-keeper for a thousand missing Crusaders, the other a nameless champion, know Hope […]

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Gems From Pastor Jim

by Jim Hughes Ps. 127:3 Children are a gift from the LORD; they are a reward from him. Throughout history, children have had mixed reviews. History records how children have often been treated no better than animals, sometimes even worse. Children have often been regarded as a problem for those who have birthed […]

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A Completed Sacrifice

by Charles Haddon Spurgeon And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering: and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. (Leviticus 1:4) If by that laying on of his hand the bullock became the offerer’s sacrifice, how much more shall Jesus become ours by […]

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Christian Trilogy Completed Azalea Plantation Series

by BJ Robinson About the Covers for the Series Beautiful Houmas House Plantation was used for the cover in all three books in the Azalea Plantation Series. We have Kevin Kelly to thank for fulfilling his lifelong dream by acquiring the property in the spring of 2003 and opening it for tours. The […]

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Thank God for Music!

by Ada Nicholson Brownell “’Four thousand praised the Lord with the instruments I made,’ said David, ‘to praise, therewith’” (1 Chronicles 23:5 KJV). I had no idea how one would go about making a musical instrument until my brother, Dr. Joe Nicholson, who headed the Evangel University music department for many years, showed me […]

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Gems From Pastor Jim

by Jim Hughes Ps. 127:1 Unless the LORD builds a house, the work of the builders is useless. Unless the LORD protects a city, guarding it with sentries will do no good. This verse speaks to me. First, unless the Lord builds His church, the church is useless. The tendency by many is […]

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Streams in the Desert – January 16

And there arose a great storm (Mark 4:37). Some of the storms of life come suddenly: a great sorrow, a bitter disappointment, a crushing defeat. Some come slowly. They appear upon the ragged edges of the horizon no larger than a man’s hand, but, trouble that seems so insignificant spreads until it covers […]

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