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2020: Week 8
This week’s personal Bible reading ended Leviticus and started Numbers, so it focused more on the law and the census. In my small group, we studied Hebrews 4:14-5, which discusses Jesus being a better high priest. I studied the laws for the high priest at the same time I studied Jesus being a better one. It shouldn’t amaze me when God lines up my studies, but it does sometimes. Much of my focus this week has been on God’s faithfulness to His promises and His mercy for my weaknesses. In the ’90s, Steve Green released a children’s album with songs that came from the Psalms. It was probably my favorite…
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2020: Week 7
This week’s theme has been gratitude. Take a minute and think of five things for which you’re grateful. I don’t think it will be difficult to do. The first five things that came to my mind are eyesight, warm robes and blankets, relationships, shelter, and food. I know I cheated counting robes and blankets as one, but they’re working together to keep me warm right now, so I couldn’t pick between them. This week’s Bible reading brought me to the end of Exodus and a little more than halfway through Leviticus. While I am not proud to admit it, this is the part of the reading plan where in years…
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2020: Week 6
If you’ve stuck with your New Year’s resolutions for these six weeks, let me be one of the first to say that I’m proud of you! We’re more than 10% through 2020, and I hope you’ve been able to see some growth. This week was a lot of fun. My Bible study group began our study on Jen Wilkin’s “Better,” which is an in-depth look into the book of Hebrews. We had our first week’s discussion Sunday night. The week had focused on Jesus being better than the angels. The author of Hebrews makes that argument in the first two chapters, so that was our focus Scriptures. At the same…
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2020: Week 5 (sort of)
This week is a little different because we’re now officially in February! And February is Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) Awareness Month. I think it’s been three years since I was diagnosed. The timeline is blurry in my mind because my retina specialist monitored it for about a year before RP became official. I’ve written about it before, so I won’t bore you with the details now. I don’t have any updates about my RP because it’s holding steady, praise God! I ask that you say a prayer for me, though. I’ll have my next appointment in March. I haven’t noticed any vision changes, which is a good indicator of little to…
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“So the homeless don’t count, right?”
I have loved teaching fourth through sixth graders on Wednesday nights for the past three years. The kids ask all kinds of questions without wondering what their friends might think. They go deep, like this one from last week: “Ms. Elizabeth, does God love Satan?” (Has anyone else had that question? It was a first for me.) This school year, we are walking through the Bible chronologically in an effort to understand the overall redemption story — the “upper story” if you’re familiar with Max Lucado and Randy Frazee’s “The Story.” The thread runs through the entirety of Scripture, and I believe seeing the story unfold will help these children…
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