Posts by Pressing On Together

Humans have been blaming others for their own actions since the Garden of Eden when Adam blamed God, and Eve blamed the serpent. I’ve heard blame called “The Second Original Sin.” The man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate.” Then the LORD…

Pride is a universal human condition (except for Jesus, of course). I know I’m prideful. “Look at what I’ve done!” “Wasn’t I wise to decide that?” Alas! Pride is really self-worship. It’s exalting in one’s perceived excellence, one’s own importance. Pride wants recognition, praise, glory for oneself. Pride dismisses God. “Look at me! Who needs…

At one point in my career, we often talked about being intentional, being purposeful. We wanted better to align our activities with our goals. Being intentional is a good plan for life. If we don’t know where we want to go, any road will get us there! When we have a goal, deliberately working towards…

Harry Durgin, Kilauea Crater, 2 March 2021 In these very troubled times, we should learn from Habakkuk. Like Habakkuk, many of us are crying out to God about the wickedness in our world. There is violence, iniquity, wickedness, destruction, strife, contention, perverted justice … and more. (Habakkuk 1:3-4) When Yahweh told Habakkuk what He was going…

MegRichardsPhotography.com My dad and I went on a tour into a deep cave. At the deepest point, the guide had all the lights extinguished. And it was DARK! The dark pressed in and felt like a presence I could touch. The dark even extinguished noise. People whispered, and then fell silent. It was harder to…

First Blooms on Wednesday/Snow cold on Friday! Iwoke up feeling ill this morning. This was unexpected, especially since I felt so well yesterday. (I’m fine now.) I had been praying about what to post this week, so my unexpected, short-term ailment, was, I believe, an answer to prayer! But life is like that: we may…

MegRichardsPhotography.com When is the new year for you? The many, many years I was a student, autumn was the start of a new school year, and the mental start of beginning anew. Autumn was the start of my new year. More recently, January 1 has been the symbolic date, and I usually think about goals…

MegRichardsPhotography.com If you believe in Jesus Christ, having received Him as Lord and Savior, He will love you to the end. Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world,…

Harry Durgin Facebook Three funerals in the past few days. I’m sad. Death is separation from us who are still living. Death is final for the one passed on. The Bible says we die once, and then the judgment. It is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment. (Hebrews 9:27) When someone…