Years ago, I was teaching a Bible study on the role of the wife in a marriage. We spent a good while discussing God’s command that a wife submit to her husband. One of the ladies teasingly asked, “Do I have to submit to him ALL the time?” Without conscious thought, my immediate response was…
We have been studying the book of Leviticus at Ladies Drawing Nigh for the past few weeks. And as I’ve read, I’ve noticed the word “holy.” A lot. In fact, the word “holy” appears 94 times in this book! That’s almost twice as many times as the book with the next highest word count of…
Sometimes as I read the Bible, I think about how strange some of God’s commands seem to be. They just do not make sense. For example, when we studied Genesis, we read that God commanded Abraham to kill his son that God had given him in such a miraculous way! In our study of Hosea,…
Many people today feel that it doesn’t really matter how we worship God. They think that as long as we are sincere, God will be pleased. To me, that sounds so close to the belief that it doesn’t matter what religious beliefs we have. Many believe that as long as we are sincere in what…
On a Monday night around 25 years ago, I was traveling on a county road that took a drastic turn and suddenly brought me into the city limits. As I had missed seeing a speed limit sign, I had no idea what the limit was in that area. I could see by the increase in…