Freaky Frugalite

Jupiter and Venus were brilliant in the night sky last night. The entire sky was blaze with pulsating stars, actually. My camera could not capture it, but it did manage to pick up the planets. So lovely! Psalm 19 The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork. Day unto day [...]

Sing, O heavens! Be joyful, O earth! And break out in singing, O mountains! For the Lord has comforted His people, and will have mercy on His afflicted. -Isaiah 49:13 Plains Milky Way from Randy Halverson on Vimeo. One of these days, I’m going to be on the other side, looking down. ;)

My beloved spoke, and said to me: “Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, And the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. “The fig tree [...]

“For yet a little while, and He who is coming will not delay. Now the just shall live by faith….” Hebrews 10:37, 38 “He who testifies to these things says, ‘Surely I am coming quickly.’ Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.” Revelation 22:20 And he spoke to them a parable: “Look at the fig tree, [...]

Not everyone who calls Me, “Lord! Lord!” shall enter the kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in Heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, “Lord! Lord! Did we not prophesy in Your name, and through Your name throw out demons, and through Your name do many wonderful [...]

Some of the teachers of the Law of Moses were Pharisees, and they saw that Jesus was eating with sinners and tax collectors. So they asked his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?” Jesus heard them and answered, “Healthy people don’t need a doctor, but sick people do. I didn’t come [...]

My dear friend Karen posted about another one of those Internet quizzes, “How Compassionate Are You?” It’s just a simple little quiz, and I didn’t take it, actually. But it got me thinking. I thought about Jesus, in the scripture where it says: Matthew 15:32 Jesus called his disciples together and told them, “I feel [...]

When I was in need, they helped me. I am very grateful to the Salvation Army. When I was 18 years old, a country girl living out in the wild boonies of Upstate New York, I had big dreams after I graduated from high school. I went to live in Manhattan to go to an [...]

Paul was waiting in Athens, Greece, for his fellow partners to meet him there. While waiting, he walked throughout the city and encountered numerous statues, monuments, and altars to all sorts of gods: the gods of fertility, the gods of strength, the gods of the sea and the weather and of agriculture and even a [...]

When you mention the word “fasting,” most people think of abstaining from food, which is understandable. But fasting is, essentially, simple abstention. It can be abstaining from eating types of foods, or from watching television, or from magazines, or whatever. Those things all have their place, but what does God say about fasting? From Isaiah [...]