Mom's Blog - He is faithful!!

While Pastor Creed was in Israel, his father, Dr. Creed, preached a message entitled “What If Your Marriage Was Not Designed Primarily For Your Happiness, But Your Holiness?”.  Tonight at our church’s jail ministry banquet Bro. Dove applied that same thought to other areas.  The principle was brought home for me in a rather humbling [...]

Recently I was asked to blog about ways our family economizes.  We are presently a family of eight, and have been as large as ten plus extended guests.  I am sure many of you have some excellent ideas as well and I hope you will log in and post those ideas.  Let’s be a help [...]

Time flies, as they say, but one day in the last year or two I had the awesome opportunity to be used of God in one of those divine appointments you hear about but never dream of experiencing. 

Do you ever cringe when you hear a parent announce that their child is/is going to be jealous of their new sibling?  Or what about, “She is SO BAD!”  Have you heard, “I can’t wait for my kids to go back to school” or “when they’re 18 they’re out of here!”  One I have often [...]

We’ve probably all heard the story of the man who drank socially but “was able to control it well.”  It seems his teenage child was killed in a car accident and when it was found that they had been drinking, the Dad vowed to kill whoever had given them the alcohol.  Upon arriving at home [...]

Over the last couple of years the Lord has allowed me to give biblical counsel to a friend.  Even though I know what the Bible teaches about various issues,

It seems to be a part of human nature, that we are careful about the things that have affected our own lives; but tend to think that what has happened to others probably wouldn’t happen in our situation.  We think we know someone so well that

In the summer of 1983 my young husband was diligently filing away at a piece of metal.  He was working in the airplane industry at Fairchild in Hagerstown, MD.  Gradually the thought formed in his mind, “There has to be more to life than this!”  There was no fault with the job.  It was a [...]

When Steve and I were dating in 1982, we realized that I had the more dominating personality. Knowing the scriptural mandate to the wife (“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: [...]

Praise the LORD!  We are coming through the fire and it has been RICH!  Christ is there in the fire!  He is ALL in ALL!  Hallelujah!