Mar
9
The Perfect Storm
By Gwenn McKone | 5 Comments
But the boat was already many stadia away from the land, battered by the waves; for the wind was contrary. (Matthew 14:24)
I have a log home in Sandpoint that I’ve been trying to sell for nearly a year now. I bought it so that I could make it a vacation rental, but found out after a year of trying, that the town just doesn’t get enough vacation rental business to make a go of it. And, since it’s a 6-1/2 hour drive from my home, it’s not exactly convenient.
Mar
2
The single file walk of the Christian
By Gwenn McKone | 1 Comment
Peter therefore seeing him said to Jesus, “Lord, and what about this man?” Jesus said to him, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow Me!” (John 21:21-22)
Feb
29
Captive or free?
By Gwenn McKone | 1 Comment
“Then they will sweep through like the wind and pass on. But they will be held guilty, they whose strength is their god.” (Habakkuk 1:11)
Habakkuk, like many of the prophets, had a gripe with God. He was watching the people of Judah committing violence against each other and ignoring justice, and there was no end in sight. If the people, whose God was Yahweh and who had been given the law from Moses were becoming an immoral and violent society, why wasn’t God doing something about it? The Hebrews were supposed to be the poster children of law, order, justice, mercy and morality. Every other people at that time, especially the Chaldeans, had no God-given laws, and over time, had become extremely violent, greedy, animalistic and completely immoral. They had no boundaries of any kind. As the people of Judah became more and more like the other peoples around them, Habakkuk wondered why God wasn’t intervening.
Feb
24
We are not orphans
By Gwenn McKone | 2 Comments
I was filling out forms today for my oldest daughter to play softball this year. When I came to the part where they ask you to provide names of two people who can be contacted in case you are unavailable, it drew me up short. My mind went on a mental search of who I could write down, and then I realized…right…we really have no close friends here. Such things always makes me realize how much of an “orphan” I am.
Feb
23
In Sickness and In Heatlth
By Julie B Cosgrove | Comments Off
I am sick. The upper respiratory crud that is rampage in my community has landed in my lungs. And, I have a huge women’s conference I am supposed to attend this weekend to promote my new novel Focused as well as my new Bible study which just came out in the nick of time from Abbott Press, Between the Window and the Door.
Church women from all over my state will be there. It is the best place to promote my books and myself. But, it is a four hour drive down and back, and right now I don’t feel up to driving to the drug store. Why Lord? Why has this hit me now?
Feb
19
PLOW Ahead
By Julie B Cosgrove | 3 Comments
Abraham Lincoln said, “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
What is our responsibility as Christians? If we believe God is truly in control and it is better to yield our will to His, then we are to put our tomorrow and our today into His all-wise, all-knowing and loving hands. But, does that mean we should not plan for the future?
Feb
10
Discipline of the heavenly kind
By Gwenn McKone | Comments Off
But now, O Lord, Thou art our Father,
We are the clay, and Thou our potter;
And all of us are the work of Thy hand. (Isaiah 64:8)
When I became a single mom, nearly a year and a half ago, I had no idea how tough it would be. My daughters were 11 and 15, and they saw it as a free-for-all away from the discipline of their dad. My girls are generally really good kids, but because we had moved an hour away from their former home, and they were trying to get their heads around the aspect of divorce, they went a little crazy.
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