Monthly Archives: October 2013

Forget Halloween. Think Christmas.

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Get in the Christmas Spirit with this delightful new release: An Unexpected Glory by Marcia Lee Laycock–availabale on Amazon. (See links below!)

New Release in Kathi Macia’s 12 Days of Christmas Series – An Unexpected Glory is a delightful story about a Christmas pageant gone wrong. Or has it?

Pastor Steve is undone when he gets a phone call telling him the annual Christmas pageant has to be cancelled. It’s the main fundraiser for the men’s shelter he runs and he knows without a spectacular event they will have to close their doors. When his right-hand man suggests they use the residents to make it happen, Pastor Steve is sceptical. But as the day progresses and he runs from one potential disaster to another, God shows Him what miracles are really made of.

Here are the links!

Amazon.com –  http://www.amazon.com/Kathi-Macias-Days-Christmas-Unexpected-ebook/dp/B00GBCMFMM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1383237285&sr=8-2&keywords=An+Unexpected+Glory

 

Amazon.ca –   http://www.amazon.ca/Kathi-Macias-Days-Christmas-ebook/dp/B00GBCMFMM/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1383237327&sr=8-3&keywords=an+Unexpected+Glory

 

Barnes & Noble – http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/kathi-macias-12-days-of-christmas-volume-5-an-unexpected-glory-kathi-macias/1117271320?ean=2940148838456

 

Upcoming Speaking Events

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1-November 11 – MOPS, Barrie Free Methodist Church

Topic- The Angst of Journaling or Do I Really Want To Know That!

2-November 13 – Thornhill Christian Women- Heintzman House

Topic- What to Do When You Don’t Know What To Do.

3.   January 15 –  Newmarket Christian Women

Topic- What to Do When You Don’t Know What To Do.

4. January 29 – Highway Pentacostal Church, Barrie

Are You Stuck in Haran?

Fall Fair Fun

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It is fall festival season again and communities celebrate everything from pumpkins to cranberries to cows. They include rides, tractor pulls and displays of handmade goods, but mostly, a festival is a gathering place to meet the neighbors. No one is rushing there.

If yesterday’s devotional about slowing down was hard for you to swallow, you might try going to a fall fair to get a sense of a slower life in progress.

After that, if you still can’t stop running from place to place, at least slow down in the following areas.

Let every man be …. slow to speak, slow to take offense and to get angry. (James 1:19, AMP)

Prayer- Lord may we always be moving slow enough to hear your voice. In Christ. Amen.

This delightful book available November 7

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Here is a short blurb about Marcia Laycock’s novella coming November 7

New Release in Kathi Macia’s 12 Days of Christmas Series –
Pastor Steve is undone when he gets a phone call telling him the annual
Christmas pageant has to be cancelled. It’s the main fundraiser for the men’s
shelter he runs and he knows without a spectacular event they will have to close
their doors. When his right-hand man suggests they use the residents to make it
happen, Pastor Steve is sceptical. But as the day progresses and he runs from
one potential disaster to another, God shows Him what miracles are really made
of. An Unexpected Glory is a delightful story about a Christmas pageant gone
wrong. Or has it?

Call it Like it is!

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We humans use fancy names for some not-so-nice things. For instance, the excrement of a worm is called a worm casting, while a bear exudes scat. Deer give off fewmets, foxes pass bilitts, and otters, spraints. While dogs release scumber, we call cattle manure offings and bat droppings guano.

Paul called it all dung.

Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, (Philippians 3:8, KJV)

Sin is anything that separates us from God. We can call it anything we like, but that doesn’t change what it is.

Prayer –Lord, show us what dung we cling to, help us to let it go and lead us to follow you 100%. Amen.