You know the signs: the darkened screen … a slash through the “Charge” icon … a background beep. Your cell phone battery is dead! And usually it happens just as you were about to make or take an important call. Keep Your Cell Phone Charged and Updated Fortunately, the lithium ion battery in your cell…
The days grow shorter and darker. Fatigue, irritability, loss of interest in activities, lack of concentration, depression, and unhealthy eating …. an estimated one in four Americans feel the biological impact of winter. Up to 11 million are diagnosed with even more severe form of the “winter blues” in a medical condition called Seasonal Affective…
This devotional is part 1 of 4 in a series based on The Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13, Mark 4, Luke 8), which compares various conditions of the human heart to a farmer’s field. Jesus uses the Parable of the Sower to depict our hearts as a farmer’s field. Just as the Sower sowed…
This devotional is part 2 of 4 in a series based on The Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13, Mark 4, Luke 8) in which Jesus compares various conditions of the human heart to a farmer’s field. In the Parable of the Sower, four kinds of soil make up the field of our hearts. God’s…
This devotional is part 3 of 4 in a series based on The Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13, Mark 4, Luke 8,) in which Jesus compares various conditions of the human heart to a farmer’s field. In the Parable of the Sower Jesus compares a farmer’s field to our hearts, describing how the seed…
This devotional is part 4 of 4 in a series based on The Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13, Mark 4, Luke 8) in which Jesus compares various conditions of the human heart to a farmer’s field. In the Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13:3-9, 18-23), Jesus compares a farmer’s field to our hearts. God uses…
Images of flattened homes, crushed cars, and building debris flitted across our TV screens in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Many of us felt saddened for the victims. But soon the reports became too overwhelming to bear. It was easier to flip the channel to a sitcom or a football game. Distractions keep our minds…