by Gerry Blumberg | Jul 16, 2023 | Flashlight
Don’t depend on things like fancy hairdos or gold jewelry or expensive clothes to make you look beautiful. Be beautiful in your heart by being gentle and quiet. This kind of beauty will last, and God considers it very special. 1 Peter 3:3-4 (CEV) I have five...
by Gerry Blumberg | Jun 27, 2023 | Flashlight
For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us. Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God, who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee. 2 Corinthians 1:20-22...
by Gerry Blumberg | Jun 16, 2023 | Flashlight
So Christ has truly set us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don’t get tied up again in slavery to the law. Galatians 5:1 (NLT) The past couple of weeks have been revelatory to me, particularly after watching Shiny Happy People Documentary on Amazon Prime....
by Gerry Blumberg | May 8, 2023 | Flashlight
Do not let mercy and truth leave you. Fasten them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. Proverbs 3:3 (GW) I have recently become familiar with an app for my iPad called One-Minute Pause. It was developed by John Eldredge, a best-selling...
by Gerry Blumberg | Mar 17, 2023 | Flashlight
Let the skies rejoice and the earth be glad. Let people everywhere say, “The Lord is king!” Let the sea and everything in it shout; let the fields and everything in them rejoice. 1 Chronicles 16:31-32 (NCV) “Bloom” was my word for 2020. How...
by Gerry Blumberg | Feb 5, 2023 | Flashlight
If you have died with Christ to the world’s way of doing things, why do you let others tell you how to live? It’s as though you were still under the world’s influence. People will tell you, “Don’t handle this! Don’t taste or touch that!” All of these things deal with...
by Gerry Blumberg | Jan 14, 2023 | Flashlight
So Ruth gleaned in the field until evening. Then she threshed the barley she had gathered, and it amounted to about an ephah (about 30 pounds.) She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gathered. Ruth also brought out and gave her what...
by Gerry Blumberg | Dec 31, 2022 | Flashlight
Do not be shaped by this world; instead be changed within by a new way of thinking. Then you will be able to decide what God wants for you; you will know what is good and pleasing to him and what is perfect. Romans 12:2 (NCV) 2022 is almost over. This has been a rough...
by Gerry Blumberg | Dec 18, 2022 | Flashlight
They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away. Isaiah 35:10 (NIV) Isaiah 35:10 (NIV) Some years ago I heard an interview on Good Morning America about telling...
by Gerry Blumberg | Nov 19, 2022 | Flashlight
Whatever happens, give thanks, because it is God’s will in Christ Jesus that you do this. I Thessalonians 5:18 (GW) A previous pastor often noted in his Thanksgiving sermon that he was thankful for his bed, his car, his dog, good food, and clothes to wear — so many...
