Author Archives: LaShawnda Jones

A Chapter a Day: Nehemiah 2

And the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of the heart.” Then I was very much afraid. I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?” Then the king said to me, “What are you requesting?” So I prayed to the God of heaven. And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ graves, that I may rebuild it.” {Click to read full chapter.}

A Chapter a Day: Nehemiah 1

“Even I and my father’s house have sinned. We have acted very corruptly against you and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, and the rules that you commanded your servant Moses. Remember the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples, but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them,though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.’” {Click to read full chapter.}

The Apology Line (Short Film)

Very interesting short film – topic, audio and video. But I find the confessions rather cowardly, assuming the people are calling the line to apologize anonymously to a machine in lieu of confessing and apologizing to the people they harmed with their actions. What do you think?

Happy Anniversary, Homeowner!

I have become a disgraceful servant by not glorifying my King. I know that everything I receive is not for my benefit, yes, I know that. Everything, absolutely everything I go through and receive is for God’s glory. My responsibility is to give Him praise and proclaim to the world all that He has done for me.