Purposeful Womanhood

 By Jessica Edwards While living here in the South for over 28 years, I've come to know several southern words or sayings with meanings that most folks from not 'round here ain't got no idea what they mean. 😉 One of those sayings is “Well, bless your heart.” Sometimes it's used as a sweet way to give comfort or gratitude. Other ways it's used as a polite way to insult someone. I did a little searching to see when and where this saying originated, and according to Google, the first time it was used in print was in Henry Fielding's 1732 play The Miser . We’ve been blessing people’s hearts for nearly 300 years. That's actually not true, because did you know Moses uses a phrase very similar to “bless your heart” in Deuteronomy 29:19? Setting the Stage Let's set the stage first. The people of Israel had just come through the 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, the rebellious murmuring generation had died, and Moses was taking the opportunity to repeat t...

 By Glenda Little In Matthew 19:16 it says, "Now a man came up to Jesus and asked, Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?". This man was seeking, and he found the opportunity to ask Jesus a question. He wanted to know what good thing must I do to get eternal life? That's the million dollar question that many people ask when seeking Jesus. It's free, but be mindful that God gave His Son, Jesus, to die for our sins on a cross. Jesus didn't die for just for one sin but for ALL of our sins. One of the responses to the young rich man's question was he must sell everything and give to the poor. Jesus wasn't talking in the human aspect of it. Wow, what if an unbeliever were told he had to do that? That's a hard one to swallow, I can just hear it! "But Jesus, I've worked so hard for everything I have and you want me to do what?" The Bible says that this young man went away sad, but my belief is that he was being ch...