Taking a moment to reflect on the details of our son Caleb’s wedding to Abigail Bristow. God is so good! Counting our blessings! Here’s the song by Seph Schlueter. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aZjWYgq9QfM

John 9 gives us the answer to the question: Why does God allow suffering? Allow your heart to be calmed and to rest in the hope that there is something beyond this life that brings purpose to our suffering.

Philippians 4, Romans 5, the book of Job - all help to instruct us in how we should respond to the unexpected and unplanned, to pain and suffering and difficulties in life.

Ponder with me what we mean by the term “normal” and how it points us to God.

Almost every book of the Bible speaks about bearing fruit. Fruitfulness is often associated with righteousness. John 15 is one example of God’s instructions to us to bear fruit. In order to bear fruit, we need to learn to abide in Him, to continually live in His love. The result is joy that is FULL! With references to Nehemiah and other examples from Scripture, I hope this podcast will encourage you and strengthen your faith!

How do we hide God’s Word in our hearts? What does it mean to hide away in the love of Christ? What is the priceless treasure that God alone knew but now has revealed? Join me in a word study through the Bible to search out the hidden, the mysterious, the wisdom of God - Christ in you, the hope of glory!! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1MOO___Rg3c

The shoes we choose to wear can slow us down or help us, make a good impression or a bad one. What does it mean to have our feet fitted with the readiness of the gospel of peace? Let’s take a minute to consider what it means to put on the full armor of God, to be ready to respond to the evil of the world with the Good News of the peace we have in Christ!

Our natural tendency is to use the way we are smart to glorify ourselves, but we can consider instead how our smarts can bring glory to God.

We can recognize that God is the giver of all good things and accept what He gives with gratefulness.

I recently discovered how I need to learn to connect my natural word smart and logic smart abilities to my heart in order to hide God’s Word in my heart. Listen as I describe my experience and learned from my daughter and what God has taught her. This is part one of three on this topic.

Today, we discuss Bible reading, order versus chaos, authority and land ownership, mastering and creating, relationship and sacrifice, and more!

Our annual family Christmas poem. Our family website is LaQueyFamily.com. A newly discovered resource https://www.christianbook.com/nothing-separate-you-from-gods-love/9781546000938/pd/000931?event=EBRN%7CM

If you want to buy your own Christmas gift and join me next year in reading together, here is the link to the planner I purchased for myself: https://www.mardel.com/Gifts-Décor/Cards-Stationery/Planners-Organizers/Read-Through-the-Bible-2023/p/8123598

We are created to worship always, no matter our circumstances. Consider the words to “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day,” the words of David in Psalm 22, and the words of Jesus in Matthew 26. Worship Christ Who is the spotless lamb of God, Who willingly gave Himself in obedience even to the point of death on a cross to take the penalty for our sin. He is worthy. “By His wounds we are healed.”(Isaiah 53:5) Make a decision to praise Him this Christmas!

Communication is important, and the way we interact and relate to others and use our words is important. Winston Churchill and his wife are examples of how we can use words to either build up or tear down, to encourage or discourage, to unite or divide…

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Hallelujah!! The Rider on the white horse, the thousand years, Satan’s doom, the dead are judged, the New Jerusalem, the river of life, Jesus is coming!!

The woman and the dragon, the beast out of the sea, the beast out of the earth, The Lamb and the 144,000, the three angels, the harvest of the earth, seven angels with seven plagues, seven bowls of God’s wrath, the woman on the beast, the fall of Babylon.

The seals, 144,000 sealed, the great multitude in white robes, the seventh seal, the trumpets, the angel and the little scroll, the two witnesses, the seventh trumpet.

To the churches in Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea, the throne in heaven, the scroll and The Lamb. Amazing!!