Maybe you haven’t asked this question in this particular way, but you may have asked something like: Have you been there? I have…a number of times. Even in writing this blog, I’ve been there! I’ve wondered how He’ll use each post He’s led me… Continue Reading “Is _______ Growing? I Can’t See It!”
Category: God's WordTags: Ability, Abraham, Adam and Eve, Appoint, Blessing, Chosen, Commission, Enable, Faithfulness, Famine, Fruit, Fruitful, Growth, Jacob, LORD, Loss, Mentor, Noah, Obedience, Plant, Process, Promise, Purpose, Rebekah, Ruth, Sarah, Spiritual Growth, The Waiting, Trust
I can hear thunder, as I begin to type this. It started about 10 minutes ago, but the rain is just now coming down. My kids are walking to a local park to watch a friend’s baseball game, and we’ve been playing phone tag,… Continue Reading “Ride out the Rain Delay”
Category: LifeTags: Blessings, Complete, Endurance, Faith, Favor, Give Honor to God, Grace, Joy, Little League, Maturity, Promise, Protection, Rain Delay, Remain Under, Ride it out, Share Joy, Spiritual Growth, Storm, Suffer, Tests, Thoughts, Wait Patiently
If you do an internet search on “life source,” you may find everything from blood donation centers; to donations for organs, eyes, and tissues; to organic grocery stores; to water filtration systems. What do you think of when you hear “life source?” What is… Continue Reading “What (or Whom) is Your Source of Life?”
Category: God's Word, MeaningTags: Abundance, Accomplishes His Will, Branches, Disciple, Fruit of the Spirit, Fruitless, God the Father, Jesus Christ, Joins, Life, Obedience, Producing Fruit, Pruning, Real, Removing Sin, Seal, Son of God, Source of Life, Spirit of God, Spiritual Growth, Sun, Truth, Value, Vine
I went out of my way to help. I rearranged things in my day to be there, and God brought things to mind that may have been overlooked. It’s always more fun to offer to do things before you’re asked! Yet, in all of… Continue Reading “Pruning Day”
Category: LifeTags: Disciple, Faithfulness, Follow God, Gentleness, Goodness, Harsh Tones, Joy, Kindness, Love, Patience, Peace, Producing Fruit, Pruning, Response, Root, Self-Control, Self-Promotion, Sin, Sin's Roots, Spirit of God, Spiritual Growth, Ungratefulness, Unhealthy, Unkind Words
He went for the sandal one more time. He realizes you notice him and bolts under a chair, tucked under the Dining Room table. You get down on his level, peering under the table, and give him the command to “drop it.” Is this… Continue Reading “Positively Negative: Training Tools”
Category: KidsTags: Believers, Children, Disobedience, Frustration, Harmful Words, Harsh Tones, Instruction, Kids, Lies, Negative, Obedience, Positive, Positive Reinforcement, Resist the Devil, Speak Life, Speaking Negatively, Spiritual Growth, Submit to God, Training, Warnings
Posted on February 8, 2021
by Michelle Taylor Baum
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The soft whine entered my ears, waking me from a restful sleep. I heard our puppy, letting me know he needed to go out. I looked down at him, and it almost knocked me back! It was positively visible how much taller he had… Continue Reading “Wow! He’s Grown!”
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Happy New Year! We ended last year, celebrating the wonder of Jesus–A Wonder–as displayed in the Judges 13 story of the Old Testament. It would do us well to begin a new year–a year many look forward to as being different than the last…a… Continue Reading “Wonder–Where is the Focus of Your Offering?”
Category: God's Word, MeaningTags: Absolute Phrase, Act of Worship, Action, Actions, Actively Serve God, All, All of Us, All We Do, All We Make, Angel of the LORD, Anticipate, Appreciation, Aroma, Ask Questions, Baby, Baby's Head, Barrenness, Better Way, Blessings, Celebrate, Celebrate the LORD, Celebrating, Ceremonially Set Apart, Change, Circumstances, Communicate with the LORD, Constant, Consumed, Dedicate ALL of Yourselves, Deeper Meaning, Detain, Different, Do, Doing Nothing, Emotional, Entire, Every Part, Extension of God's Hand, Financial, Fire, Flame/Smoke, Focus, Focus of the Action, Focused Attention, Generosity, Give an Offering, Giver, Goat, God Led You, God's Character, God's Design, God's Help, God's Provision, God's Works, Have a Relationship with the LORD, Holy, Hospitality, Impact the LORD's Kingdom, Jesus, Jesus is the Same, Kindness, Living Sacrifice, LORD's Kingdom, Make, Manoah, Material, Need, Offer, Offer a Burnt Offering, Offer Appreciation, Offer it to the LORD, Offering, Old Testament, Partial Offering, Pleasing, Pregnancy, Prepare, Prepare a Meal, Present Your Bodies as a Living Sacrifice, Promise of a Child, Questions, Razor, Receiver, Redirect the Offering, Relationship, Reply, Rest, Rise, Serve God, Set Apart, Show Support, Soothing, Spiritual Growth, Stand in Awe, Support, Thanking, The LORD Alone, To Go Up, To the LORD, Trust, Unchanged, Visibly Different, Wait Patiently, Way We Live, Wonder, Worshipping, Wouldn't Eat, Yield to God's Will
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