Author: TonyaAnn Pember

    Pastor Herb Cooper of Peoples Church OKC is doing a series on Last Days                               https://peoples.church/series/last-days) .  I respect and know him to be a man of God and preacher of truth.  This week he started a list of 7…

        So, I’m thinkin’ today about John, the beloved disciple.  The one to whom Jesus entrusted His own mother’s life. John wrote his gospel between 80-95 AD, well after the ascension of Jesus.  He’s very clear that his purpose in this book is that others believe that Jesus is the Christ.  (Bonus Tip: …

    Mark Twain said,   “If you were supposed to talk more than you listen, you’d have 2 mouths and 1 ear.”  I quoted this all the time to my students as a teacher.   Part of my beginning of the year procedure training was teaching the difference in listening and hearing.   We would sit silently…

   As I continue my journey through the chronological Bible, I always groan through Chronicles. Ezra, a scribe and priest, is believed to have written this  “factual written account of important or historical events” .  In his position he would have had access to official records. Still, in this book, he goes on and on…

   I’m thinkin’ this morning about a simple, seemingly uninspiring verse: John 6:3 “. . . and Jesus went up on a mountain with his disciples and sat down.”  Thirteen words that we gloss right over, it’s not the main idea of this passage.  This verse proceeds the story of the feeding of the 5000.  Jesus…

   Fear of the Unknown can bring crippling anxiety into our lives.  We have been living in the unknown for many days now.  No one really knows how this virus is spread. No one has any idea how long it is going to ravage our nation.  If you become infected, you don’t know how severe…

   Seven weeks of this pandemic has taken its toll on all of us.  Some are faring better than others.  My family is not ill, I do not know anyone personally with the virus and certainly no one who has died.  My income continues so at this point, nothing has changed for me financially. I actually…

   Several days ago, I wrote in my journal, “I’m not worried, I’m just weary”.   As I re-read that today, I realize how true it is.  I’m tired of this Rona and all the press she seems to garner.  We’ve all been weary at some point in this marathon.        There was a…

   My heart is heavy this morning for our spiritual leaders and our governmental leaders.  What a heavy load it must be to make decisions that impact the health and welfare of hundreds of thousands of people.  We don’t have to look far to know that whatever decision is made, someone will be critical.  What…

   One of the my most distressing disappointments of this pandemic (no, not Hawaii) will impact 10,000 children and 15,000 adults  in 43 states and 6 countries.  Anyone who knows me knows I choose twenty years ago to align myself with Royal Family Kids (rfk.org).  I’ve spent the past eighteen summers working with camps in Oklahoma,…