How to Get the Flu ASAP and Other Stellar Advice
Hey, y’all! Thanks for dropping by! I've been looking forward to it. I'm knee deep into my speaking/travel season and life is going at warp speed! I could use some down time with my friends. Let's chat
On the new year, southern sayings, and tweeting God
Happy New Year, y’all. 2019 has arrived. I remember listening in to an adult conversation years ago and hearing my Uncle Bryon talking about what he thought we’d see in the future. Back then 2019 sounded quite futuristic to my young ears. Uncle Bryon used to say that one day the roads would move instead of the cars. He saw us driving our vehicles onto the
A Christmas Classic, Candied Carrots, and a Visit with author Michelle Ule
Welcome, y’all. Shellie here, in this week’s episode of All Things Southern, I’ll be visiting with Michelle Ule. Michelle is a bestselling author of historical novellas, an essayist, blogger and the biographer of Mrs. Oswald Chambers: The Woman Behind the World's Bestselling Devotional, but today she’ll join us to talk about her newest release, A Poppy in Remembrance. We’ll also swing through the kitchen and I’ll close
Giving Thanks, a Christmas Adventure – Day Fourteen, the conclusion
Here we are, at our last day together on this journey to learn how to quit grasping and live grateful lives. I do hope you have found some takeaways that will help you walk into this holy season with your eyes on Christ, that your heart may be full of treasure that no amount of money can buy. Surely, there is no better place to
Giving Thanks, a Christmas Adventure – Day Thirteen
Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 Whatever you do in word or deed, do all
Giving Thanks, a Christmas Adventure – Day Twelve
We’ve looked at Paul’s example of gratitude and we’re about to look at other of his admonitions for us to be thankful, but first I want to say something about expressing thanksgiving. I wouldn’t dream of making an over-arching ruling here, but I’ll share my opinion and experience on whether or not it is important to voice our prayers, our acknowledgement, our thanksgivings, aloud. While I
Giving Thanks, a Christmas Adventure – Day Eleven
I believe Paul learned that living in ongoing thanksgiving and acknowledgment of what was his through Christ opened him to the contentment available through communion with God— just as we established that the fellowship table of thanksgiving over the sacrifice of Christ nourishes us. Amen? Amen. Let’s examine the gratefulness teachings of Paul. Paul’s two major categories of gratefulness: 1) He was always thanking the Father for
Giving Thanks, a Christmas Adventure – Day Ten
In previous lessons we've talked about consecrating a hard moment by acknowledging God in it. The moment becomes holy when we place it on the altar because God moves in us right in the middle of our painful situation. His Presence—this is why we can learn to count the hard thing as a good thing. I want to learn the art of saying grace in
Giving Thanks, a Christmas Adventure – Day Nine
We can blunt the devil’s effective and constant bombardment of our minds with the daily challenges that come with real world living and feast with God at the same time by learning to take our trying, frustrating, and/or heartbreaking moments and give thanks in them. This is the Living Thanksgiving that feeds our souls! It’s a defense against the devil’s schemes because eucharisteō is the