Early each morning in my time in the Word I focus on two things: familiarity with the Word and intimacy with the Lord. I am gaining familiarity with the Word by reading through the Bible in a year and cultivating intimacy with the Lord by lingering over specific passages using my Selah Bible study in Mark. Early this morning, during …
Awhile back, I decided to travel, with a group of friends, through the well-charted verses of Psalm 119 using the Selah Bible Study method. While I had journeyed through Psalm 119 and portions of this passage numerous times, I had a desire to not just read it, but take some time to stop and truly experience it. As I slowed …
There is something deliciously familiar about my husband. Before you think I might give you TMI, let me explain. We were high school sweethearts that went to different schools. Our lives intersected in band. He, being the cute guy who was the first chair clarinet and me being the third. We became instant BBF (Band Best Friends) and started dating …
“I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint.” Jerimiah 31:25 Is it just me, or do you sometimes grow wearing in your Quiet Times? According to Titus 2, I am an older woman. Even though I have been blessed to walk with the Lord for 35+ years, I have a confession to make. While I earnestly desire to be in …
By the time you get around to reading this friend, Christmas may have come and gone, and you are caught between the sacred hush of the last week of the old year and the wild expectation of the new. A similar situation our dear Anna found herself…in between the old and the new. Join me as we linger over three …
I hope you’re feeling hungry! One of my biggest desires is to get you, my reader, into the Word for yourself. Seriously, I am not an expert but want to lay my words out in such a way as to lead you to experience for yourself the banquet table of Scripture! I believe to merely read my thoughts on this …
Yikes!! As of today, we have only just a few days until Christmas! During this busy time, is it just me or is the last thing you want to occur is something unanticipated? For most of us, our over-scheduled December calendar just can’t handle one more thing! This is the first part of a two-part series where we will be …
The month of December is certainly the time of year to have an open-door policy for unexpected guests. At my home, family and friends make the annual trek back to their hometown and often drop in unexpectedly for some coffee, a meal or even a place to sleep. I love it when this happens, but I have to admit, I …
A hack is when a tricky problem is solved by a clever solution or when a modification or change is made to something and it yields extraordinary results. Here are five simple hacks, and these are the clever solution type, to apply to your Selah Bible study.
Almost all of us have heard the term Quiet Time. This time refers to a daily occasion when we draw away from the hectic and frantic pace of our lives to steal some moments with Jesus. This communion with Christ can be done in so many different ways such Bible reading, worship, prayer, in-depth study of the Word and its deeper meanings, and even meditation. These are all perfectly in line with what we often refer to as a Quiet Time. Today, I would like to take a slightly different approach to Quiet Time.
