by Valorie Quesenberry | Dec 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
It seems the way to ensure you will experience complications is to declare you will do a certain thing in a certain way. It has indeed been that way for me this week. Setting myself a goal to do a daily Christmas post for 12 days unleashed myriad...
by Valorie Quesenberry | Dec 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
Apparently, for some with a vendetta against God, Christmas or the church, or who are merely obsessed with mischief, nativity scenes are of special interest. They come not to gaze at the simple beauty of the holy birth, but to confiscate the infant Savior. A...
by Valorie Quesenberry | Dec 5, 2011 | Uncategorized
Not Mine”Lo, children are an heritage from the Lord . . . . ” (Psalm 127:3)My children?No, not mine;Gifts unearned, undeserved they’ve been from birth.My flesh and blood?Yes, of earth;and yet, like me, their souls belong to Him.My...
by Valorie Quesenberry | Oct 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
In the Kingdom of God the alternatives are not boundless, not so long as we live in this mortal coil. You can’t have it all. You are not there to do yourself a favor. You many not have it your way. You opted out of all that when you made up your mind...
by Valorie Quesenberry | Sep 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
God works in a mysterious way. That’s a line from the old song by William Cowper. The divine operates so much differently than the human. If it were me, I would fix things before they worsened. But God does His work on a scale that we...
by Valorie Quesenberry | Sep 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
Recently, I was reading a bit of David Kinnaman’s thought-provoking book unChristian. (Baker Books, reprint 2007.) It deals with the younger generation’s prevailing perception both of the evangelical church and of the gospel message we present.The...
