Category: KeaNotes
GOD: Learning from the Perfect Parent
(from Debbie Kea’s Strategies for Raising Spiritually Healthy Children) It has been seven years since I retired from teaching high school English. My doctor told me after a yearthat my blood pressure was normal, and I could get off my medication! That gives you an idea about thestress I was under as I attempted to…
MAJORING IN THE MAJORS
(excerpt from Strategies for Raising Spiritually Healthy Children by Debbie Kea) Does your family have a motto? I have a friend who is not a Christian, but she is a serious parent, and if you ask her what her family’s motto is, she would say, “You can’t be mean or ignorant.” Being a good student…
God’s Recipe for Righteousness (part 2 of 2)
THE CHRISTIAN GRACES (2 PETER 1:1-11 KJV) continued… :5 –Circle diligence. In Greek it means speed. We do this earnestly. Star each grace as we read them. The Greek for faith is pistis. It means joyful trust conjoined with obedience. It is the foundation for all other graces. Faith is that unquestioning certainty that everything…
God’s Recipe for Righteousness (part 1 of 2)
THE CHRISTIAN GRACES (2 PETER 1:1-11 KJV) I was grown before I ever knew what arugula was. My daughter had to teach me what quinoa was and how to pronounce it! There’s hardly a recipe book or women’s magazine now that I can actually understand. Agave, cacao, shitake, bento box, chorizo, asiago… No, I really…
Salt or Sand?
SALT OR SAND? We are all familiar with Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 5:13—”Ye are the salt of the earth.” We usually think of the influence we have, that Jesus is teaching us to bring His flavor to the world. That is so important, but in my study of salt I found that salt has several…
P-R-I-D-E
Pride…it was actually the original sin, wasn’t it? Satan was thrown out of heaven because of pride. Then Satan told Eve you will be like gods and we know what happened next. The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye and the pride or vainglory of life—I John 2:15—we see John gives pride…
Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled
The last year has been a year of troubling times, no doubt. We’ve faced lots of changes. Elders have had to make many decisions about how to handle these difficult times within their congregations. But what I want to talk about today is how we as women, individual Christians, should handle troubling times. In Job…
In the Right Place
“The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us” 1 Peter 3:21 During Spring Break we had the joy of going with our grandchildren to the ArkEncounter in Kentucky. For those who have never been or don’t know about it, it is areproduction of Noah’s ark, comparable in size to what God commanded…
Hem of His Garment
I HAVE NEVER BEEN A GOOD SEAMSTRESS. My mother was the sewing Wiz. She tried to teach me… she tried. I finished a wrap-around skirt. Today I can sew on a button to my husband’s favorite Sunday shirt (at the last minute, right before we walk out to worship, ladies you know how that goes).…
Have You Lost Your Mind?
“Love the Lord…with all your mind” Matthew 27:37 On the door of my colleague’s office is a sign that says, Sit down and wait. I’ve lost my mind and gone to look for it. I suppose most of us have felt like we’ve lost our minds at one time or another. The Bible recognizes many…