Hebrews 13:8  Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.     I had been thinking about buying some social contact cards for quite a while. (Those are business cards for people without a...  Read More

Being Not Doing by Randy Simonson September 28, 2022As we move through our daily lives , we need to realize that God intends for our deeper, truer self, which He created, to blossom as we follow Him. ...  Read More

"Grace" September 21,2022     Greetings Lakeside Family. In my prayer time recently, the thought of what grace means has come up quite a bit. I ask myself, does God extend more grace to one and less t...  Read More

Just As I AmSeptember 14, 2022              Charlotte Elliot was born in 1789 in Brighton, England. Her grandfather was an author and minister and was a part of the movement that brought about “The Gr...  Read More

  Galatians 6:9 is one of my favorite bible verses. Galatians 6:9 - And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. ESVFall is a time of great change in ...  Read More

August 30, 2022Proverbs 11:14  Where there is no guidance, a people falls,     but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.      This past spring, my family and I went on a vacation in the far n...  Read More

The Holy Spirit: A New SpiritThen I will give them one heart,and I will put a new spirit within them,and take the stony heart out of their flesh,and give them a heart of flesh.Ezekiel 11:19The Holy Sp...  Read More

That their hearts may be encouraged,being knit together in love,and attaining to all richesof the full assurance of understanding,to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Chri...  Read More

Pain. Nobody likes that word. We avoid pain at all costs. If you watch tv for any length of time at all, you will see product after product that will eliminate your pain. You can take the pill to cure...  Read More

"You see it in the whines of a little boy, you see it in the entitlement of the teenager, you see it in the needless argument of the married couple over something unimportant, and you see it in the bi...  Read More

HOPE is real. It is in our Lord! PEACE is a state of the heart, not a situation. When we place our trust firmly in God and His perspective on our lives, we are able to view our lives and evaluate what...  Read More

We all know that we should daily be reading the bible as part of our Christian lives. Along with prayer and worship, reading scripture is necessary. But when you (we) read the scriptures, do we unders...  Read More