Posts from February 2019

If There’s Only One …

LightGrams February 28, 2019 Volume 23, Number 9 The name “Cozy Hollow School” brings nice images to mind (and yes, it’s a real name of a real school). But even nicer images come when you hear what the Albany County School District in Wyoming is going to do. Cozy Hollow School consists of a singular…

Daily Focus, February 27, 2019

“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.”  James 4:8 Daily Bible Reading: Job 3:1 – 4:21 (“Can mortal man be in the right before[b] God?  Can a man be pure before his Maker?“) This Week’s Memory Verse: “Is not My word like fire, declares the Lord, and like a hammer that…

Daily Focus, February 26, 2019

“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.”  James 4:8 Daily Bible Reading: Job 1:1 – 2:13 (“And the Lord said to Satan, ‘Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?’”) This…

Daily Focus, February 23, 2019

“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.”  James 4:8 Daily Bible Reading: John 20:1-31 (“Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, ‘I have seen the Lord’—and that he had said these things to her.”) This Week’s Memory Verse: “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey…

A Sleep-Anywhere Kind Of Guy

LightGrams February 21 2019 Volume 23, Number 8 Justin Koerner’s story was unbelievable – except it was true. His car ended up in a yard one recent Sunday morning, and Justin was found sleeping inside. The Newark, New Jersey police assumed he was drunk, but he passed their field sobriety tests. Security cameras in the…

Daily Focus, February 19, 2019

“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.”  James 4:8 Daily Bible Reading: John 16:1-33 (“I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”) This Week’s Memory Verse: “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does…

Daily Focus, February 16, 2019

“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.”  James 4:8 Daily Bible Reading: John 14:1-31 (“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.”) This Week’s Memory Verse: “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk…

Daily Focus, February 15, 2019

“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.”  James 4:8 Daily Bible Reading: John 13:1-38 (“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, that you love one another.”) This Week’s Memory Verse: “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for…

A Valuable Story

LightGrams February 14 2019 Volume 23, Number 7 Cathy McAllister was just doing her job, the same as she had been doing for the past six years. She volunteers her time in Phoenix, Arizona going through donated books that ultimately are sold at the state fair for charities. When she came to a copy of…

Daily Focus, February 14, 2019

“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.”  James 4:8 Daily Bible Reading: John 12:1-50 (“Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.”) This Week’s Memory Verse: “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which…