by Emily | Jul 17, 2016 | Historical Inspiration
I love history. Finding out about people who have lived before us and times past, fascinates me. I marvel at the process of knowledge being passed through the generations, and how one person imparts knowledge to another. As someone who delights over written words, the...
by Emily | Oct 25, 2015 | Historical Inspiration
We live in an age where Christian conferences are fairly regular occurrences. There are gender-specific Christian conferences, conferences for specific denominations, conferences for regions… need I go on? But this hasn’t always been the case. The first...
by Emily | Apr 21, 2015 | Historical Inspiration, Inspiration
I love the story of Samuel. Perhaps as a mother, I love the thought of Samuel responding so quickly to his mentor Eli, thinking Eli had called for him. Perhaps it is the story of his mother Hannah and her longing and pleading with God for a baby, and then delivering...
by Emily | Apr 1, 2015 | Historical Inspiration, Inspiration
“How think you that you obey Christ’s commandments, when you spend your time collecting interest, piling up loans, buying slaves like livestock, and merging business with business? … And that is not all. Upon all this you heap injustice, taking...
by Emily | Mar 6, 2015 | Historical Inspiration, Inspiration, Reviews
PRAYER the Churches banquet, Angels age, Gods breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage, The Christian plummet sounding heav’n and earth; Engine against th’ Almightie, sinner’s towre, Reversed thunder,...
by Emily | Jan 29, 2015 | Historical Inspiration, Inspiration
Somedays my hands feel very full. Somedays I get to the end of the day and feel weary but don’t have anything really material to show for it. I haven’t come home with financial reward for my toil. The washing baskets are filling up when I just emptied...