Posts from "June 2013"

Gossip

Three scenarios women never refer to as gossip..

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Family the Way it Should Be

I am the daughter of Dave and Joyce Hoke...the Granddaughter of Pearl and Bud...the sister of Cindy and Judy...and more aunts and uncles and cousins than I can name. That is the family I was born into by birth. And I thank God for every single part of them...the good and bad. But in my lifetime I have been blessed to be born into another family...the family of God. What has that meant in my life? Let me break it down in practical ways.

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Why I Never Needed the Boy Scouts

I remember the very first Pinewood Derby I ever saw.

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Hope for the Double-Tongued

James 3:10 My brother out of the same mouth pour blessing and cursing. This should not be so.

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Playing God

Well, I guess it's official. According to an article in the Baptist Press paper by Tom Strode, "Human cloning apparently has arrived." Some scientists in Oregon (big surprise, right?) report that they cloned human embryos. Their purpose was to produce stem cells. So, after only a few days of life, these scientists-turned-murderers "extracted" the stem cells.

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