Celebrate Your Victory

With a t-shirt! I read through the entire Bible last year with my small group of girlfriends! Some of us read the Bible for the very first time. Others of us read the entire Bible in 365 days for the first time! Whatever the case we did it together and it was difficult, fun, exciting … Continue reading Celebrate Your Victory

Withness: a review along with resources

Thanksgiving Day, 2025. Dear Reader, May you experience, today, God's very real withness. For He has changed my life {again} by unveiling my eyes to the reality that He is with me. Immanuel. I have never known Him quite like this. You might think at my age, โ€œShouldnโ€™t you know this by now?โ€ I ask … Continue reading Withness: a review along with resources

A Great Teacher Asks the Best Questions: โ€œWere not ten cleansed?โ€

The best teachers ask really great questions. As you read and ponder ask yourselfโ€ฆ Who is Jesus to me?

The Resurrection: how do you respond?

A peek into an ongoing correspondence between sister-friends. She is one of my Paulettes and most assuredly my longtime Barnabia. Dear friend, I read yesterday Matthew 28 and Mark 16. This was our planned chronological reading with The Bible Recap. My reading walked me through the crucifixion. And then I encountered The Resurrection of Christ.  … Continue reading The Resurrection: how do you respond?

A Great Teacher Asks the Best Questions: mustard seed

October 26, 2025 There is no better teacher than Jesus. And He asks the best questions. Hereโ€™s one regarding the Kingdom of God and a mustard seed. โ€œHe said therefore, โ€œWhat is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it? It is like a grain of mustard seed that a man … Continue reading A Great Teacher Asks the Best Questions: mustard seed

Morning communion: How could I not recognize your presence?

October 5, 2025 โ€œBut Peter rose and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; and he went home marveling at what had happened. That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and they were talking with each … Continue reading Morning communion: How could I not recognize your presence?

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Dear Children, You are creative. You are! We want you to believe that you are creative. God made the sun, moon and stars. And God made the trees. Genesis 1 May we tell you how I know you are creative? We know because God designed you. He thought of you and knew you before you … Continue reading shiney.notes.3