by Julie McIlhatton | Oct 14, 2021 | Faith over Perfection (Genesis 2), Love God Greatly Posts |
I have found my decision making skills are poorer when I am hungry. I am obviously not alone, as research has found that grocery shopping when you are hungry leads people to buy more high-calorie foods than usual. Esau seems to have had this problem too as he made a...
by Julie McIlhatton | Sep 30, 2021 | Faith over Perfection (Genesis 2), Love God Greatly Posts |
Anger acts like a cloud over our rational thinking and judgement, causing us to easily lose perspective. As a result we often make poor choices when angry. In today’s reading, I think Sarah was not only angry but also felt jealous and regretful. She had just watched...
by Julie McIlhatton | Aug 8, 2021 | In Jesus You Are, Love God Greatly Posts |
In the summer of 2018 I watched the daily news, hoping for good news about the Wild Boars, a junior football (soccer) team in Thailand. They’d gone into a set of caves with their young coach to celebrate a birthday and became trapped due to rising waters. After nine...
by Julie McIlhatton | Jun 10, 2021 | Friendship, Love God Greatly Posts |
Mark 2 contains one of my favorite accounts of what happened during Jesus’ life on earth. I love how these unnamed friends were so bold! They were friends of faith and their faith was in Jesus. Jesus was in Capernaum, considered His home as He regularly returned there...
by Julie McIlhatton | Apr 22, 2021 | In the Beginning (Genesis 1), Love God Greatly Posts |
I’ve had various jobs, some paid and some not. The strangest, but probably most fun paying job I ever had, was being a Living History Interpreter at a museum. For this job I dressed as and attempted to speak like a Georgian lady living in the year 1776! When we are...