Posts by Dr. Alice Maria Crawford

Have you ever heard the expression, “it’s not what you say, but the way you say it”? I have to take exception to that idiom, for I do think that…

There is no doubt that the Christian life has its’ hills and its’ valleys. When all is said and done however, what is the bottom line? We know how much…

There are times when it seems as if you run into people that rub you the wrong way. Whether they exhibit something that reflects something in you, or whether it…

I was going to write about another topic, but hearing the news of the passing of Queen Elizabeth, my mind took a different turn. I watched every episode of the…

The Lexham Bible Dictionary defines hope this way: Hope The confidence that, by integrating God’s redemptive acts in the past with trusting human responses in the present, the faithful will…

If there is one thing that we need to put in our repetoire, it is this- determination. There are so many things that are designed to take us all of…

I am one who takes the Bible literally, so when I read a passage like the following it makes me pause: And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened…

Usually I don’t write posts on Saturday, but this has been such a busy week that I haven’t had a chance to follow my usual schedule. That is what is…

Editor’s Note: This is a real oldie that I came across today – it bears repeating! I don’t have a lot of comforting memories as a child. Things were often…

Have you ever heard a line in the movies coming from an actor trying to convince someone to trust them? They say with such sincerity, “don’t you trust me“? It…