Less than 60 seconds each—check out the videos below for ideas and free resources for Mother's Day!
One Mother’s Prayer, a new set of PDFs to share for Mother’s Day and anytime for prayer groups
This true story has been one of the popular pieces on this site because it is an encouraging reminder of the power of a Mother's Prayers.
Whether someone is a mom biologically or spiritually, our prayers are the most powerful gifts we can give to those we love.
As this true story shows, prayer can totally change the direction of a life and turn someone who may have been openly hostile to the Christian faith into a powerful witness for Jesus.
Below are some new images of it I created recently in Canva. The ZIP file is of ready-to-print PDFs and jpg images.
If you want some of the older images, editable files, and the text file of One Mother's Prayer, go to: One Mother's Prayer, a free and inspiring story for however you want to use it for Mother's Day
To download the ZIP file of the ready-to-print PDFs and jpg images, click the following link: One Mothers Prayers 2020
FREE e-Book, Tetelestai, if the battle is over, why is life so hard?
Tetelestai! "It is finished!"
Many sermons, this and every Easter are either based on or contain this great final cry of Jesus from the cross that affirms that the work of salvation is complete.
But is that what Jesus really said? (Spoiler alert....He didn't).
And if He did, why is life so hard, why are there so many battles to fight?
Don't be alarmed.....I'm not being heretical or doubting. In researching the answers to these questions I found answers far more challenging and reassuring than what I'd known in the past about not only the finished work of Jesus but what it means to us in our struggles.
I had great plans to publish an expanded version of this book on Amazon with a Kindle version, but as I shared in another post, life interfered and many projects are put off. As Easter neared I wanted to give you this book.
CLICK HERE to download it. You have my permission to share it.
3-23-2024, Personal update on Yvon Prehn—why you haven’t heard from me for some time
I really dislike talking about myself, and only do it when it affects the Bible805 and Effective Church Communications ministries are affected. This is one of those times. If you are interested in my personal drama, read on, but nothing critical here as after this tale of challenges and some technical modifications that will take a few months to work out the ministries will continue.
It has been a rather challenging few months for me with one illness after another from before Christmas into February, (e-coli infection, RSV respiratory infection, discovered a heart anomaly, that I daily now wear a nitroglycerin patch for). We also started some major much needed updates on our 60+ year old mobile home, which requires packing up and moving everything out (a good time to clean and sort) and then a few weeks ago I had a severe fall. I was carrying some boxes down the outside stairs, slipped, tried to turn and grasp the rail, but missed and did a dead-drop backward with nothing breaking my fall, and hit my head on concrete.
Clean Monday, a challenge to recommit to Lent and a focus on becoming like Jesus
Note: this blog first appeared in my Bible805 website, but I thought we all needed the spiritual encouragement here, so I'm also putting it in for you.
“Clean Monday” is an intriguing label isn’t it?
I thought so when it came across my internet feeds. I like the idea of starting the week, clean and right before God and people. That's a useful thought anytime but I was ignorant that today is Clean Monday, the first day of Great Lent, as Eastern Catholics and Eastern Orthodox refer to the Lenten season. For those of you who have been observing Lent in various ways in the Western church, you are a little over halfway through your Lenten observation this year--following is some encouragement to get you through it. [Read more...]
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