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  • No Spying Allowed
    Saturday, March 8th, 2025     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

      LORD, who may be a guest in your home? Who may live on your holy hill? Whoever lives a blameless life, does what is right, and speaks honestly. He does not slander, or do harm to others, or insult his neighbor.   Psalm 15:1-3 No spying on each other in God’s house. The Hebrew word for slander is רָגַל râg̱al, and its meaning includes to search, to slander, to go about as an explorer… Read More

  • One Thing Only
    Sunday, March 2nd, 2025     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

    Our Father in heaven, may your name be honored, may your kingdom come, may your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Matthew 6:9, NET One Thing Only by Audrey Frank Can we start anew today... Again? I’ll take Your hand once more Upon the Way. I lose myself Though You are near; Let go Your hand In paltry fear. Forgive me, Lord. Unruly mind, Assailed and tossed; Lord, teach me the… Read More

  • Full Peter, Empty Peter
    Sunday, February 23rd, 2025     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

    From that time on Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. So Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him: "God forbid, Lord! This must not happen to you!" But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are… Read More

  • I Don’t Care
    Sunday, February 16th, 2025     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

    For Pastor Dave, with gratitude And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. And God will exalt you in due time, if you humble yourselves under his mighty hand by casting all your cares on him because he cares for you. 1 Peter 5:5-7, NET I don't care. This sentence brings to my lively mind a clear picture of a stubborn… Read More

  • Our Wishes are of No Concern
    Sunday, February 2nd, 2025     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

      Then Laban and Bethuel replied, “This is the LORD’s doing. Our wishes are of no concern.” Genesis 24:50 Oh, to have such faith, such desire for God’s will that our wishes are of no concern! These hearts of ours sure do have lots of wishes. And when they concern those we love, our vocation, our identity, we are especially specific in our wishes. Abraham was no different. He was growing old, and his son… Read More

  • Encircled
    Sunday, January 26th, 2025     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

      But you, LORD, are a shield that protects me; you are my glory and the one who restores me. Psalm 3:3   You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. Psalm 139:5  My prayers have been compartmentalized for so many years. Jesus, heal me. Father, protect me. Holy Spirit, help me. The realization is dawning in my soul like a sunrise that I am encircled. I am surrounded… Read More

  • Honest Prayer
    Sunday, January 19th, 2025     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

    “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and prayed about himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: extortionists, unrighteous people, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of everything I get.’ The tax collector, however, stood far off and would not even look up to heaven,… Read More

  • He Will be Waiting
    Sunday, January 12th, 2025     Audrey Frank     2 Comments

      My God with his lovingkindness will meet me (ASV). The God who loves me will help me (NET). Psalm 59:10 My work requires extensive travel. Sometimes, I arrive at my destination expected, prepared for, and cared for, while other times, I am on my own. Being expected, prepared for, and cared for makes a big difference. Sometimes it’s critical to know someone is waiting for me. One time I flew from Egypt to Kenya… Read More

  • He Shoulders Responsibility
    Sunday, January 5th, 2025     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

    He shoulders responsibility and is called the Wonderful Adviser. Isaiah 9:6, NET Three books shaped my early childhood: the Bible my great-grandmother gave me the Christmas I was seven years old, my mother’s girlhood copy of Little Women, and my grandfather’s thick and heavy Webster’s Dictionary. I read them all until the pages grew soft like velvet. The word responsibility inspired me long before I knew I was an Enneagram 1 or that Achiever and… Read More

  • Extraordinary Wisdom
    Sunday, December 29th, 2024     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

    The LORD’s Spirit will rest on him — a Spirit that gives extraordinary wisdom, a Spirit that provides the ability to execute plans, a Spirit that produces absolute loyalty to the LORD. Isaiah 11:2, NET According to Worldometer, as I write this there are 8,194,837,950 and speedily counting human souls on earth. As the population increases, it decreases simultaneously, and the world spins around on her careful axial tilt of between 22.1 and 24.5 degrees.… Read More