by Ellie | Jun 23, 2017 | blog, Uncategorized
THERE I WAS, SITTING IN THE CAR, NO ONE ELSE IN SIGHT. My husband Jim was in the church, practicing the organ for the service to follow. Son Lee was running off bulletins and preparing to preach and lead worship music with his daughters. A big morning for us...
by Ellie | May 26, 2017 | blog, Uncategorized
DOES MY BLOG TITLE MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU? When I was a child, Decoration Day was a Big Deal. We went to the attic for our little bundle of flags, the biggest of which was maybe 2 x 3 feet. Seemed huge to us. We would put them out on May 30 in preparation for the modest...
by Ellie | May 5, 2017 | blog, Uncategorized
Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I’d rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in tents of wickedness. What did biblical gatekeepers do? Here’s the short list: They guarded the gates of the house of the Lord—east, west, north...
by Ellie | Apr 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
—every thread crafted by human hands from the twisted fabric of rebellion against the great I AM. It lay exposed before him: instruments of torture on tables of blood, vomit, and tears; every conceivable torment that had been or was yet to be devised by humankind....
by Ellie | Apr 14, 2017 | blog, Uncategorized
This is a two-part depiction of Jesus’ real suffering. Click the link at the end to finish the story. A phrase, taken from the early, traditional version of the Apostles’ Creed, says, “He was crucified, dead, and buried. He descended into hell. And on the third...
