It’s been an incredibly hard week. I’m sure we’ve all had a week or two like this… It starts out normal, with the usual routines and the usual hello’s, and the promise of making plans – a party to attend, a get-together for dinner, that work project… and then wham! Something unexpected happens. Plans stop, you begin to remember the last conversation you had with someone, and suddenly life takes on a whole new meaning. This week, my Bible study teacher passed away at a too-young age. Sunday morning, I sat in my regular chair listening to him talk about Jesus with a smile on his […]
Category:In Jesus' Words - from Matthew
Imagine sitting on the side of a mountain, perhaps a pleasant breeze is blowing and the sun shining as excitement begins to fill the air, and people are gathered around everywhere, talking with anticipation as they wait to hear what Jesus is going to say. This is the scene as Jesus begins his preaching ministry and his most famous sermon, The Sermon on the Mount. As I continue my journey of reading through Jesus’ words in the New Testament, I come to the next passage in Matthew after Jesus has just finished telling the crowd how to be blessed, or also […]
Category:In Jesus' Words - from Matthew
“For a couple of years it was just me and Jesus. I thought we were the only two Jewish believers in the world.” That’s what my new friend Anne said to me over coffee one day while I was visiting at her house. Anne was on the welcoming committee for the new parents of my son’s Christian high school, so I was a little surprised that day when I showed up at her house prior to the start of school. The living room was filled with all kinds of antique menorahs, Star of Davids, and many other Jewish symbols that looked like they had […]
Category:Life, Heart, Soul
I had been helping my son John study for his algebra final exam all afternoon. He had been doing fairly good, but after finishing that last grueling practice problem, he’d had enough. He got up from his chair and looked at the answer on his paper and exclaimed, “Algebra is useless. That’s nothing more than a mark on a piece of paper!” I didn’t think of it that way at all, but I began to realize how we all see things from different views. To him, adding numbers to some obscure formula on a piece of paper had no more use than just making […]
Category:Life, Heart, Soul
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About the Author
Sue McCusker is a writer, Bible teacher, and web developer who loves to share the stories of life, hope, and faith she sees around her every day. She has written for Guideposts and Angels on Earth magazines, and teaches the story of God in women's Bible study.
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