Posts from 2019

Daily Focus, December 30, 2019

“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.”  James 4:8 Daily Bible Reading: John 4:1-54 (“But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”) This…

DAily Focus, December 27, 2019

“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.”  James 4:8 Daily Bible Reading: John 2:1-25 (“Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in His name when they saw the signs that He was doing.”) This Week’s Memory Verse: “Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens,…

Daily Focus, December 20, 2019

“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.”  James 4:8 Daily Bible Reading: Jeremiah 47:1 – 48:47 (“He who flees from the terror shall fall into the pit, and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare.  For I will bring these things upon Moab, the year…

Microscopic Magnificence

LightGrams December 19, 2019 Volume 23, Number 40 Gingerbread houses are edible and visual treats that we commonly see around the holidays. Popularized by the fairy tale “Hansel And Gretel”, millions of children have had the thrill of building their own version of these delicious houses. And so has Canadian researcher Travis Casagrande; he has…

Daily Focus, December 16, 2019

“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.”  James 4:8 Daily Bible Reading: Jeremiah 39:1 – 40:16 (“The Chaldeans burned the king’s house and the house of the people, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.”) This Week’s Memory Verse: “And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by…

Feats Of The Mighty

LightGrams December 12, 2019 Volume 23, Number 39 I’ll have to admit that I’m impressed with William Clark. Though I’ve never met him, this professor at New York’s Binghamton University set a new Guinness World Record by bending seven railroad spikes in a minute. The previous record of four spikes bent in a minute was…

Daily Focus, December 6, 2019

“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.”  James 4:8 Daily Bible Reading: Jeremiah 23:1 – 24:10 (“The anger of the Lord will not turn back until He has executed and accomplished the intents of His heart.  In the latter days you will understand it clearly.”) This Week’s Memory Verse: “For the…

Restoring What Is Precious

LightGrams December 5, 2019 Volume 23, Number 38 Heather Langley is a jeweler who works in Bessemer, Alabama. In the summer of 2018 a customer told her about a ring he found in the early 1990s while working at Mount Bachelor in Bend, Oregon. Langley began searching for the ring’s owner using first names engraved…

Daily Focus, November 30, 2019

“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.”  James 4:8 Daily Bible Reading: Jeremiah 17:1 – 18:23 (“Then the word of the Lord came to me: ‘O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the Lord.  Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand,…

Daily Focus, November 25, 2019

“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.”  James 4:8 Daily Bible Reading: Jeremiah 7:1 – 8:22 (“As for you, do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with me, for I will not hear you.”) This Week’s Memory Verse: “The…