Grudge or Garage
Mustard Seed Chronicles: Story Time with LU Grandma As we begin to plan for the upcoming academic year, your child may be leaving home for the first time to attend college. Maybe this is a second or third child for you and you feel more prepared. For the first-timers, especially, there are plenty of questions…
From Death to New Life
Mustard Seed Chronicles: Story Time with LU Grandma I never cease to be totally amazed by our God’s omniscience and creativity in nature and how it relates to our lives! A dear friend has a Christmas cactus that belonged to her grandmother, so it is well over 50 years old and it still blooms –…
Seeds and Champions
Mustard Seed Chronicles: Story Time with LU Grandma Jesus regularly used gardening and farming stories to teach spiritual truths. Because I grew up as a farmer’s daughter, I can readily imagine what Jesus wanted His listeners to see. There are still lessons to hear in Jesus’s stories about seeds. As we celebrate Graduation at Liberty…
Perseverance is Lovely
Mustard Seed Chronicles: Story Time with LU Grandma As always, God again uses His creation to teach something to me this spring. I have tulips planted along the sidewalk in front of my house. I used to have them in lots of different flowerbeds on the property, but every spring, the deer come and eat…
Colossians 3 Peace
Mustard Seed Chronicles: Story Time with LU Grandma About five years ago the Lord showed me something in His Word I had not seen before in all the 46 years I have been walking with Him. It has changed the way I think about the things that are transpiring in our world. I pray it…
Choose to Leave Complaining Behind
Mustard Seed Chronicles: Story Time with LU Grandma I’m, hot! I’m cold! Snowing again? More rain, really? Mac and cheese again, Mom? We had that yesterday! Why do I have to clean my room, it’s mine after all? I hate these masks! We have probably said or heard any one of those repeatedly. With these…
Who Is On the Throne?
Mustard Seed Chronicles: Story Time with LU Grandma For years, when I was a Student Advocate at Liberty University, I met with lots of students who had a myriad of issues. There were many who were trying to run their own lives and found it impossible to do it. They did not know what to…
That’s Love
Mustard Seed Chronicles: Story Time with LU Grandma What is love? And how does it apply to our lives? We love all kinds of things from pizza, cars and clothes to music and movies, etc. What does God say about love? The word love occurs 645 times in 575 verses in the New Living Translation…
Behold All Things Have Become New
Mustard Seed Chronicles: Story Time with LU Grandma I love butterflies! They are graceful, beautiful, and serve a purpose in pollination. They are a delight to watch as they flit around our flowers and yards. They don’t bite people either which is somewhat unique for an insect. I love them most because their life’s metamorphosis…
The Do Not Be Afraids of Christmas
Mustard Seed Chronicles: Story Time with LU Grandma There are four times when Gabriel says, “Do not be afraid” in the Christmas Story. I have wondered over the years why he had to continually tell people not to be afraid when he appeared but if we remember the last time God had spoken with Israel…
