November 7
Jody Neufeld, Daily Devotions of Ordinary People – Extraordinary God, p. 329
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Matthew 5:4
God doesn’t leave me when times are tough. I may move away because I am hurt that HE allowed the circumstances. I may move away because my focus becomes me and my pain instead of continuing to look to God for His guidance, His plan, His healing.
When people complain that they don’t understand someone, I sometimes respond with, “That’s nothing. I don’t understand myself.” If love is based on understanding, it is going to be almost non-existent. We all cry out for unconditional love; if it is conditional, it isn’t love, it is based on something we do to merit that…
When God sent his son into the world, we don’t see anywhere the instruction, “Don’t waste your time on the hopeless.” As far as the biblical witness is concerned, no one was written off, no one was off-limits, no one was beyond the reach of God’s love, no one was outside the circle of grace….
Many readers might recognize that the title line of this book emerges from Proverbs 13:12: “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.” Although I do not believe that I speak for the experiences of all people, as I say above, I do believe that anyone who has…
In this entertaining book for all ages, Squareland enjoys a simple, uniform, conflict-free life of “perfect squares”—until expectations are stunningly upended by change. Suddenly Squares must deal with foreign creatures: Triangles, Rectangles, Circles, Ellipses, Parallelograms, Trapezoids, “Gons,” and such weirdoes. Each shape has its own natural personality and proclivities, so complications, cliques, tensions, and conflict threaten…
2022 Holiday sales, with books from 10% to 60% off for the season! This advent we will be posting relevant quotes from our authors related to the weekly themes of advent. Here is the first. When we are forced to face adversity, Holy Spirit will encourage us to tightly wrap our arms around the promise…
