OBEDIENCE

What Is On My Father’s Mind

15 June by Hariette Petersen

When I was a teenager, I had several opportunities to break my father’s rules–to go places he didn’t want me to go, to do things he didn’t want me to do.  I recall a time he made me copy three chapters of the Bible for joining my brother in smoking a cigarette. Today I think [...]

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Has Your Heart Become Calloused?

1 June by Hariette Petersen

Ever know you ought to do something, but just don’t feel like it?  The desire is not there.  You ought to encourage, but don’t.  You ought to give, but won’t.  You ought to change, but remain the same. I get that way sometimes and wonder if perhaps I’ve hardened my heart to the conviction of the [...]

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When They Don’t Want to Obey

23 May by Hariette Petersen

Last week I went to pick up my granddaughters and take them on a picnic.  Before we left I told them to tidy up the living room and put away their toys, books, and other items which were strewn all over the carpet.  Four-year-old Kinsey protested.  “Haylee left the arrows out.  That’s Haylee’s book…”, on and on came the excuses. Kinsey’s [...]

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The Upside Downs

11 May by Brenda Wood

   Malachi 3:8- “But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’ “In tithes and offerings (says God).” Dennis Crawford’s poem, The Upside Down 23rd reminds me of how often we turn God’s word into a topsy-turvy mess to suit our own purposes. We take the parts we like and ignore the ones we don’t care for. (See [...]

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The Duck Family

8 May by Dee Dee Wike

“He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.” (Psalm 91:4, NIV) As my son and I were leaving his music lesson, he called my attention to a mama duck and her fourteen ducklings.  Although tiny and only a day or [...]

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Fighting Fingers

25 March by Brenda Wood

Fighting Fingers Psalm 144:1- Blessed be the Lord, my Rock and my keen and firm Strength, Who teaches my hands to war and my fingers to fight—(NIV) I guess it is possible that David was dwelling on actual physical warfare when he penned this, but it makes me think of people whose words make a [...]

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