After thirty years in my home, I am having my kitchen remodeled, and have concluded that “remodeling” is a metaphor for life in general. Remodeling your own...
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~ Holly Bebernitz
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Heavenly Prepositions
Though I have been a Christian since I was nine years old, I did not learn how to pray till I was forty. My learning curve along those lines is still steep....
Comfort
Beginning with the sermon I heard last Sunday and a number of conversations I have had this week, I became convinced this is a message I needed to share...
Rejoice
Some of you may be familiar with the practice of selecting a “life verse,” by which you intend to live, or which characterizes your life at a certain point in...
The Road to the Juniper Tree
This is Part III of the series on Elijah, which began on January 23 [I Kings 17], and continued with Part II on January 30 [I Kings 18], which concluded with...
That Was Then
“What we feel now, we will not always feel.” During a perilous time in my life, this quote from Philip Yancey’s book, Disappointment with God, caught my...
More Than a Thousand Words
I happened upon a photo this week that jostled me, knocking me slightly off balance. The photo was taken during dark days…one of those ‘hard times’ everyone...
Preserved & Prepared
I Kings 17-19 is the story of the prophet Elijah, described as a “bolt of fire God let loose” to do away with Baal worship during the reign of Ahab and his...
Flora Dunman
More than any other book I have written Lawson Payne has surprised me again and again. The irascible Flora Dunman ranks way up there on the “I Never Saw That...
How Much Are You Worth?
It’s an age-old problem, beginning with Cain and Abel, resurfacing with Jacob and Esau, and sinking to ever deepening lows with Joseph and his ten older...
Native Texan Holly Bebernitz moved to Jacksonville, Florida in 1967. After thirty years of teaching speech, English, and history on the secondary and college levels, she retired from classroom teaching to become a full-time grandmother. The change in schedule allowed the time needed to complete the novel she had begun writing in 1998. When Trevorode the Defender was published in March 2013, the author realized the story of the Magnolia Arms was not yet complete.