by Barbara Lardinais | December 22, 2023 | Wake Up Call
Doesn’t our natural mind tend to discount miracles and healing? Even if we believe that God still works supernaturally today, we often only call it that after medicine and all other natural means have failed. But actually, isn’t God really behind it even...
by Barbara Lardinais | December 22, 2023 | Wake Up Call
I’m particularly impressed with an incident from the life of King David before he took the throne. I’d like to tell you I would do the same thing in his circumstance but that would probably be wishful thinking. It’s so tempting to take matters into...
by Barbara Lardinais | December 15, 2023 | Wake Up Call
Have you ever had someone constantly watch you, waiting for you to make a mistake so that they could pounce on it? Jesus had it happen to him all the time. Once when he entered the synagogue on the Sabbath there was a man with a withered hand. “And they were...
by Barbara Lardinais | December 1, 2023 | Wake Up Call
Pilate was not a godly man and had no sympathies toward the Jewish religion. He was simply unfortunate enough to be the Roman ruler over Jerusalem when Jesus was arrested. But even he could see clearly that Jesus was innocent of any crime and not worthy of...
by Barbara Lardinais | November 3, 2023 | Wake Up Call
They say that at the moment of death your whole life flashes before your eyes in an instant. Is there time in that moment, I wonder, to regret whatever time was wasted? Of course, what good would it do you then? I try harder than I used to to make every minute count...
by Barbara Lardinais | October 20, 2023 | Wake Up Call
I have a friend who became a Christian at a young innocent time in her life. Later, through disappointment, she departed her walk with the Lord and fell into a pretty deep life of sin including promiscuity, mysticism and drugs. Finally she saw the light once more and...