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Cultivating a Life of Worship

In Luke’s Gospel, we find the story of Jesus visiting the home of two sisters, Mary and Martha. There we encounter an occupied and frustrated Martha, whom we envision rushing to and fro, preparing and serving food and drink to the Lord. For her, the pressure was mounting to be a proper hostess, fulfilling the […]

Isaiah 35:1 (NIV)

The Feminine Touch

Remember the movie My Fair Lady? It began with wise Professor Higgins making a wager with a friend that he could take a girl off of the street and change her life by teaching her the principles of proper speech and etiquette. He soon made a frivolous girl named Eliza the focus of his experiment. […]

New Beginnings

“You will still be eating last year’s harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new.” ~Leviticus 26:10 FUN FACT ABOUT THE MONTH OF MARCH: In the early Roman calendar, March (or Martius) was the first month of the calendar year. As March brought the first day of spring with the […]

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