How many times have you read or heard this story about the “woman at the well”? You know, the Samaritan woman that Jesus encounters and speaks to about living water. How many times do you just think it’s a nice story, it shows Jesus’ compassion, with no other thought at all? Maybe you have other ideas about the passage already. Today I am going to look at this story in John 4:1-42. Read the passage and see if you agree with me.
Have you ever heard anyone say those words, blessed hope? Perhaps it was something like this, “this is our blessed hope.” Are you a new Christian on your new journey in your new life and just don’t know what that means? Perhaps you heard a pastor, mentor, or other person claim one thing as the blessed hope but someone else claim something different.
A little background as to why I am posting this is that a Pastor I know (and it’s not my intent to call anyone out) claims one thing about his “blessed hope” that is just not what the Bible says, so it got me thinking, maybe I should set it straight in case anyone out there has ever been told something wrong. But this isn’t my words, I am going to show you with scripture.
Continue readingI wanted to make a quick post to say…If you’ve been to my blog recently and saw a name change, I’m not sure how that happened exactly. It’s been corrected. I didn’t make the change nor do I know when it changed. I come to my blog and dashboard almost daily. Sorry for any confusion this may have caused. The name of the blog has not changed since I dropped the homeschool part of it.
I’m also cleaning up some posts, adding to posts if needed, and fixing mistakes as I see them. New post coming soon.
Today I want to write about some things that divide followers of Christ that really shouldn’t. I want to write about things I have been hearing, or heard, in my life as a believer in Christ. Maybe some of these things will be familiar to you. This is not going to be a Bible study today. My life has been pretty chaotic lately taking care of my elderly chronically ill cat among my other duties. That doesn’t mean I am not continuing to study, but it does mean I haven’t had the time I would like to get my thoughts assembled and written into my next blog post. It will come.
First of all I want to make anyone reading this to be aware that whatever I say here will be my observations and my opinions and my criticism, if needed. I am not asking anyone to agree with me. My blog is not a place for arguments or judgement. My blog is a place for my thoughts, my opinions, and hopefully encouragement to others to be in a close relationship with Christ, every day of every week. I do short Bible studies here on things that have interested me that I want to share with others so that you may dig deeper yourself. If you find something different than I did, okay, that’s fine. My goal is for you to read the scripture, in it’s context to get the true meaning of what it is conveying.
There are some really tough deep dives that I would love to write about here, but I’m just not ready yet. As it is, things I might say in this post may not be easy for me to write about. However, I think it could be beneficial, maybe an encouragement or something that you’ve heard and didn’t feel like anyone else was on your same page. Maybe it’s something you need to hear because you’ve been guilty of getting into these types of arguments with fellow believers.
Continue readingToday’s post is linking to you to my review of a book I recently read. Below you’ll see a screen shot of said blog post. The Write Planet is my first blog and where I choose to keep my review posts. I’ve recently revived the blog and attempted to keep it more focused than it used to be. I hope you will go check it out.
Link below.
https://thewriteplanet.blogspot.com/2026/04/coming-soon-book-review.html
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