What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? 2 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Romans 6:1-2 Recently one of our little ones was in trouble for biting. While I had her in time-out, she repeatedly kept telling me […]

Mark 1:35 In the early morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house, and went away to a secluded place, and was praying there. From the time I was a child I have enjoyed hunting wild game. There’s just something about getting up early and heading into the woods quietly among […]

Matthew 9:8 describes the response of the crowds that witnessed Jesus heal a paralytic man, they were awestruck and marveled at the event. The word for “awestruck” also conveys a sense of fear and reverence of the One who gives such authority. Matthew 9:8 But when the crowds saw this, they were awestruck, and glorified […]

Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve. Colossians 3:23-24 On October 23rd we will be hosting our annual Fall Festival / Trunk or Treat here at Pleasant Grove. Have you considered how you […]

26 be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and do not give the devil an opportunity. Ephesians 4:26-27 Chances are good that you have tried to place something back into a package the way that the manufacturer had originally packed it, yet it seemed […]

As I was cleaning off my desk for the first time in a while, I ran across a note that I had written with a scripture verse on it. I scratched my head and pondered but never could remember the reason that I had written it. You see, I had left off one important piece […]

Have you ever lost something and after a while had just given up on finding it? Well that happened to our family in 2017. At Thanksgiving in 2017 while out of town family was visiting, we somehow lost the remote control to our ROKU streaming device on our television. We searched long and hard for […]

because you have been born again – not of perishable seed but of imperishable – through the living and enduring word of God. 24 For All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like a flower of the grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,25 but the word of the Lord endures forever. And this word is the […]

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 2 Cor. […]

“If we all pull together, together, together, If we all pull together How happy we’ll be! For your work is my work, and our work is God’s work; If we all pull together How happy we’ll be!” Recently I have been demolishing an old fireplace and chimney that was no longer useable, and I plan […]