by Joanne | Feb 6, 2024 | Let's Have Coffee, Uncategorized
Pulling into our driveway, I notice the basketball hoop on its lowest setting. Over the years, it has been raised and lowered to adjust to the height of children, adults, and now again, grandchildren. Memories of shooting hoops with our two oldest granddaughters flood...
by Joanne | Jan 30, 2024 | Let's Have Coffee, Uncategorized
We need to examine the motivation of our hearts and asking ourselves a few hard questions may be a good starting point: What compels us to do the things we do? Is it a need to impress others or receive recognition? Would we be content to do if there were little...
by Joanne | Jan 23, 2024 | Let's Have Coffee, Uncategorized
History – we cannot erase it. It is important to know it, look back at it, remember it, and learn from it. We need to let history change us into the people God has always meant for us to be. The past surely shapes where we are today, and where we will go. It...
by Joanne | Jan 16, 2024 | Let's Have Coffee, Uncategorized
“Come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord our Makers. For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand.” (Psalm 95:6-7a,NASB) The heading in my Bible calls this “A Call to Worship.” We...
by Joanne | Jan 9, 2024 | Let's Have Coffee
Yesterday I shared a few of the lessons my One Word 2023, Guide, brought over the course of the past year. December did not quite turn out the way we had expected, nor desired. It was the longest month of the year and not because it has thirty one days. It was the...
by Joanne | Dec 13, 2023 | Let's Have Coffee, Uncategorized
Advent is a most amazing time. Every portion of Scripture read somehow becomes filtered through Advent; through the birth and completed work of Jesus. “By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”...
