Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Bible Study: Broken, Searching, Trusted, Powerful

Wife of Noah

To date, anthropologists have collected between 250 to 300 such flood stories from various cultures.

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Saturday Devotion

Changes

“Aren’t you, like, a Christian?” It was making no sense. He took his glasses off and rubbed his eyes, as though that might help. “I mean, aren’t there rules, or something?”

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Minor Prophets

Minor Prophets: Malachi, Jacob not Esau

Irreducible Complexity: Election is simply this, that Sovereign God loves whom God loves. The Lord foreknows and calls those to respond to the good news of God’s grace and at the same time God works through a person's choosing to believe.

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Saturday Devotion

Lonely

He flipped through all the chats he had already seen, familiar dark dread narrowing his windpipe, stinging his eyes, aching through his back and neck. Why was he such a failure at connecting with people?

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Saturday Devotion

Overwhelmed

She nodded, but clenched her teeth. The room seemed to grow dim, as though someone had lowered the lights and muffled the sounds. She needed to go—somewhere else, anywhere else—so she got back up and walked out the door.

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Saturday Devotion

Grief

She would just lie here today, she thought. Who cares? Not the one who counted. He was lying brain-dead in the hospital across town.

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Saturday Devotion

Numb

She felt neither alarm nor even wonder. It simply was. Her body was there, doing what little it could for the inconsolable. And she was here, a dispassionate observer.

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Bible Study: Broken, Searching, Trusted, Powerful

Martha

I think the way Martha would have liked to be remembered was as a woman of bold faith and blessed service, who was able to leave the conventions of her old life and enter into the grace and freedom Jesus offers

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Minor Prophets

Minor Prophets: The Book of Malachi

Malachi may be associated with the jackal, which features early in his book, for God had left Edom to jackals, yet now God’s own people were acting like jackals.

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Pause Button!

For a couple of months, I am going to be concentrating almost exclusively on writing my thesis.