by Marilou Lyons | Jul 3, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement with Elizabeth Rice Handford Why do thousands of refugees risk drowning in an unsafe boat or suffocating in a packed airless tractor trailer in an effort to get inside our borders? Why? Because, they see in America a treasure unmatched by any...
by Marilou Lyons | Jun 26, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
A word of encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford The Israeli King Ahab in Bible times wasn’t doing what a good king was supposed to do: helping people do right and punishing evil doers. (The story is told in First Kings, chapter 20.) Instead, King Ahab was “doing...
by Marilou Lyons | Jun 20, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford Life throws a lot of choices at us, and sometimes they are more important than we realize. I remember one late evening when I suddenly had to make a life-altering decision by 8:00 o’clock the next morning. I was 18...
by Marilou Lyons | Jun 13, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford We talked our last time together about how comforting God’s merciful forgiveness of our failures is, and how His loving kindness will endure throughout eternity. I remember another time when God extended His mercy...
by Marilou Lyons | Jun 6, 2023 | 2023, Devotionals
A Word of Encouragement from Elizabeth Rice Handford The man had betrayed his wife, shamed his friends, lost the respect of his children, disgusted his church family. For the last ten years he has been penitently rebuilding his life, earning back his wife’s love,...
