What Do You Bring to the Table? If you were invited to a pot-luck dinner, what would you bring? We’ve recently had a couple of those types of events at our church, and the spread of food was abundant, varied and delicious, as each person contributed what they could to make it a blessing to […]
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Have you ever gotten to the point in your walk with Jesus, when you realize He’s been SO good, and SO faithful for SO long, that you almost HAVE to testify about it? Centuries and Millenia Surely, He has been faithful to so many people for hundreds and even thousands of years. People groups, that
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Do you feel about as useful as a cellphone that is about to run out of power, and you’ve just realized the recharger has been hopelessly misplaced? Could You Use a Spiritual Recharge? Here’s a brief story about a simple instance of a lost phone recharger, and how the Lord graciously used it to illustrate
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Wow, these past few weeks have been FULL! I hope you had a blessed Holy Week last week! I hope that this audio replay of my “Third Thursdays at Three” in-home concert (from 4/17/2025) will continue to set your heart on Jesus Christ and all that He did for us on that day when He
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Have you ever been so frightened that you were almost immobilized by your fear? Have you ever felt like the evil one was intimidating you so he could stop you in your tracks, and keep you from doing not only the thing that you wanted to do, but the thing that God wanted you to
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This week’s Manna From My Father’s Hand Blog and Podcast are going to focus on my recent “Third Thursday’s at Three” concert. I will link below to a video of the replay where you can watch AND listen, as well as to the podcast version where you can simply listen to the entire concert. For
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Freedom This week, in carrying on with our gardening theme and celebrating our Independence Day (July 4) in the United States, it seems timely to discuss a little bit about the freedom that we celebrate in the earthly realm, in our “free” country, which affords us the opportunity to even speak of these types of
Genuine or Counterfeit? When given a choice, do you prefer the real thing or an imitation? Genuine money or counterfeit? An actual rainbow in the real sky, no matter how faint … or a colorful, gaudy fake representation, short on colors and substance? A plant that actually bears a harvest or one that looks just
Do you desire for the “garden” of your life to be flourishing, but find that destructive critters keep digging up everything you try to plant? Do the challenges, failures and set-backs of this life find you hiding FROM Christ, or is your life hidden WITH Christ in God? Let’s explore that today… Song of Songs
This week’s blog and podcast is taking a bit of an unexpected turn once again. Perhaps I should start getting used to that! The Lord seems to steer things in a different direction so often, and it does make it interesting at times, to say nothing of getting a little figurative whiplash! This is a
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Empty or Full? Are your sails empty or full? And while we’re at it, how’s your tire pressure? Have the tires that help you navigate the rocky roads of this life become deflated? Has the wind in your sails become so seemingly non-existent that you’re sitting out in the middle of the lake of life
This blog post is associated with the podcast that can be found here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shining-river9/episodes/11-Wake-Up-e2ib09u Sorry this blog entry took so LONG to get posted! Taxes caused an extra delay, but now, this is ready to be posted after an important housekeeping issue: This week is a bit different than my normal routine, because TOMORROW (4/18/2024)
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What is Meditation? Have you noticed how our culture and the “world” seems to increasingly attempt to co-opt certain terms that Christians use to apply to “good” things? Words like “meditate” or “woke” (as opposed to being “awake”). Today, let’s “meditate” on meditation:). The Bible often speaks of meditating, but not in the way that
Escaping Through the Flames Do you hear Jesus knocking? OPEN THE DOOR! Escape the flames! Would you rather have a flame that perfected you in the sight of God, or one that destroyed you? I know my answer! In the Spirit, there are doors to OPEN, and doors to SHUT or KEEP SHUT. It may
Can You Hear Me Now? We have discussed a lot about being able to see in the spiritual realms in recent weeks. The other side of that equation is needing EARS that hear, which was often an area on which Jesus would focus His disciples’ attention. His use of parables (like word pictures) often would
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Vision How is your vision? Your spiritual vision, that is. The last blog post asked “Can we have light?” We can have a lot of light, but if we are blind, we will not be able to see it or be aware of it. Psalm 119:105 says “Your word is a lamp to my feet
Last year, the Manna From My Father’s Hand blog began with a series about my earthly father’s story (which was the inspiration for the blog in many ways). In episode six, I mentioned a time when my father had said something like “Can we have LIGHT?” one morning shortly before he passed away. At the
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This week’s Manna From My Father’s Hand was posted as a Podcast, which highlighted a song I’d posted in late 2023 called Winter Snow. The Podcast was entitled “A Beautiful Cover–Song and Story for a Snowy Day” since we’ve had a couple of snowy days lately. Here is a link to the Podcast on Spotify: