by Joanne | Mar 26, 2024 | Let's Have Coffee, Uncategorized
I didn’t grow up in a denomination which recognized or practiced the season of Lent. Only in my adult life, did I decide it was something I wanted to observe. It’s been several years in which I gave up something for the Lenten season, often wanting it to...
by Joanne | Mar 20, 2024 | Let's Have Coffee, Uncategorized
Bible Study breathes life into my soul. A small group of ladies sharing transparently and vulnerably becomes a lifeline, and a filter by which to view life. Recently we read and discussed Romans 6:16-22. Our study reminded us that freedom has a cost and the cost was...
by Joanne | Mar 5, 2024 | Let's Have Coffee
Lent – the time in which we remember the forty days Jesus spent fasting while in the desert and resisted the temptations with which Satan taunted Him. Many will give up something, called a sacrifice, and refrain from a food or activity for these forty days....
by Joanne | Feb 27, 2024 | Let's Have Coffee
I try to turn to Scripture every morning. There is something about the early mornings, Bible reading, and coffee that brings a peace and settledness over my soul. No reading is ever the same. There isn’t any Scripture which cannot fall new and fresh. Perhaps it...
by Joanne | Feb 20, 2024 | Book Reviews, Let's Have Coffee
It is always a curious thing to see what others are reading. Do they like a good mystery? A novel which weaves good relationships? Thought provoking non-fiction? When blogging friend, Linda Stoll, made her next book club announcement for some reason it grabbed my...
by Joanne | Feb 13, 2024 | Let's Have Coffee
Today is Valentine’s Day. But more so, it is the start of the Lenten season. I wonder how often these two days merge together. To “give something up for Lent”, as explained by dictionary.com, “is to abandon a pleasurable habit as an act of devotion and...
