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Journey with Hope
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Christ our hope in life and death!



Fighting Darkness With Light
Paul tells us in Ephesians 6:12 that we are not struggling against a flesh and blood enemy that we can see. We are struggling, Paul...
Carol Plafcan
May 14, 20244 min read


A Letter From Christ
Letters, we don't write letters much anymore, unless emails or long texts count. I have some letters that I have had for 50 years. I...
Carol Plafcan
May 10, 20244 min read


Engraved On His Palms
It is easy to give in to the feeling that we have been abandoned by God. Our circumstances may be bleak, our health gone, our loved ones...
Carol Plafcan
May 7, 20243 min read


Clothed With Christ
Going to a wedding can be a stressful event for people. What to wear? Maybe you don't own a lot of dressy clothes so what do you do?...
Carol Plafcan
May 1, 20244 min read


With The Aged Is Wisdom
Living in a youth centered culture today it is interesting to look at the Bible and what it has to say about being old. Old people today...
Carol Plafcan
Apr 29, 20244 min read


Who Are The Chosen?
Who are God's chosen? Those who believe in Him are His chosen ones. According to I Timothy 2:4-6 God wants everyone to be saved because...
Carol Plafcan
Apr 26, 20244 min read


Christ Our Passover
Passover, one of the greatest of all Jewish holidays, is a time of remembrance when the angel of death passed over the Jewish firstborn...
Carol Plafcan
Apr 23, 20244 min read


A Book of Remembrance
One of the complaints of the people of the prophet Malachi's time was that they felt it was useless to serve God. They did not see...
Carol Plafcan
Apr 19, 20243 min read


Who Do We Love?
As if the Sermon on the Mount was not difficult enough for many of us to fully grasp, our Lord gave concrete examples of what a life...
Carol Plafcan
Apr 16, 20244 min read


Waiting on God: Lessons in Patience and Trust
Waiting seems to be a constant theme of the Bible. Learning to wait has something to teach us. We learn patience, we learn to rely on...
Carol Plafcan
Apr 12, 20244 min read


What Brings Happiness?
As Christians we are told in the Bible that we will be a happy people, a joyful people. The Bible really makes no distinction between...
Carol Plafcan
Apr 9, 20243 min read


God Dwells In Us
The Feast of Tabernacles (also called the Feast of Booths), today known as Sukkot, is a Jewish feast that God commanded to be celebrated...
Carol Plafcan
Apr 5, 20243 min read


Our Journey to Holiness
Our Holiness Journey We serve a God who tells us to " Be holy, as I am holy ." (I Peter 1:16) Many people have lived lives of even...
Carol Plafcan
Apr 3, 20244 min read


Salt of the Earth: Matthew 5:13
Still Salty? Are you still salty? I don't mean this in the common slang way that "salty" can mean today but I mean it in the way that...
Carol Plafcan
Mar 29, 20243 min read


The God of Recompense
Jesus Enters Jerusalem During this Easter season we read the story of Jesus's triumphal entry into Jerusalem. The people are expecting...
Carol Plafcan
Mar 26, 20244 min read


What Does God Expect?
What Does God Expect? What is God's expectation for us as Christians? What is it we should be doing? According to our Lord we should be...
Carol Plafcan
Mar 22, 20244 min read


What is Godly Sorrow?
"For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death." 2...
Carol Plafcan
Mar 19, 20243 min read


Family of God
Going it Alone Are you familiar with the expression, "Going it alone"? Have you ever decided you just don't need other people, or maybe...
Carol Plafcan
Mar 15, 20243 min read


God Will Provide
Abraham Knows God Will Provide The first time we hear the expression, " God will provide ", is in Genesis 22:8. Isaac asks his father...
Carol Plafcan
Mar 12, 20244 min read


We All Fail Sometimes
Even Bible heroes failed—Noah got drunk, Abraham lied, Moses struck the rock, David took Bathsheba. We ALL stumble. But God uses repentant hearts. Stay humble, stay dependent on Jesus. Your failure isn’t final.
Carol Plafcan
Mar 9, 20245 min read
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