by Kristene O'Dell | Jan 17, 2021 | Psalms of Ascent
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory. ~ William Barclay https://www.esv.org/Psalm+126/ In January of 2008, my husband and I sat in a Sunday evening service and listened to a message on Psalm 126. Earlier that...
by Kristene O'Dell | Dec 11, 2020 | Psalms of Ascent
“I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquility will return again.” ~ Anne Frank https://ebible.com/esv/psalms/125 Mountains are universal symbols of strength, stability, and closeness to...
by Kristene O'Dell | Sep 7, 2020 | Psalms of Ascent
“And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true sense of things, they will find deliverance from sin a much greater blessing than deliverance from affliction.” ~ Daniel Defoe https://ebible.com/esv/psalms/124...
by Kristene O'Dell | Aug 18, 2020 | Psalms of Ascent
I was, by divine grace, enabled to bring all my sins and all my sorrows and lay them at the feet of Jesus, and to receive the blessed assurance that He had accepted me, all sinful and polluted as I was. ~ Elijah Parish Lovejoy https://ebible.com/esv/psalms/123 Psalm...
by Kristene O'Dell | Aug 1, 2020 | Psalms of Ascent, Uncategorized
“In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God’s nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, ‘Do as You promised.’” ~ Charles Spurgeon https://ebible.com/nkjv/psalms/122...
by Kristene O'Dell | Jul 20, 2020 | Psalms of Ascent
“No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately...
