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God's Grace In Our Trials (Facing The Death Of Saved Loved Ones) Praying that this page would be a source of strength, comfort, and hope to other believers dealing with the loss of saved loved ones, or going through the Valley of the Shadow of Death with them at this present time. The following studies, links, poems, etc. were taken from the various things that provided comfort to my sister (Lori) and I during the months leading up to and following the loss of our Mom - or should I say, leading up to her Homegoing to Heaven! Some of the links no longer work or the websites are no longer online, and therefore those specific links have been removed. Any links to pages on Earnestlycontending.com have been changed to where they are now located on our new server (as of 2021). Daily Devotional for Saturday January 22nd/05 Since Yesterday Since yesterday, I have been thinking of someone's unplanned influence in my life. Since yesterday, I have been praying for the family of this man ...

Provoke Not Your Children My Testimony Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. Colossians 3:21 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Ephesians 6:4 I learned something today that hit me hard. I learned what it meant when we don't apply Scriptural principles to our lives. I learned something about myself and why I have certain reactions to goals and obstacles in my life. I have heard my Pastor preach on Ephesians 6:4 before. I have heard him explain that parents provoked their children to anger when they were inconsistent when raising them, inconsistent when disciplining them. My home life growing up was like this: My parents were divorced when I was two years old, and my mom basically raised us herself. Along the way, she had some boyfriends who were rough on us. She married again in 1984. My step-dad did not know how to deal with children, and with him being an only child rais...

My Personal Testimony My name is Jerry (Gerald) Bouey. I will be 35 in March, 2005. I will have been saved 12 years as of this November 13th (since November 13th, 1992). I had a religious background - kind of a mix between Catholicism and Anglicanism, with a little bit of Pentecostalism thrown in. The Pentecostal church is where I learned some of the basic Bible stories. (Thank the Lord that I didn't get exposed to some of the false doctrines that they hold.) They also gave me a King James Bible. There I learned John 3:16, the Lord's prayer, and first heard Psalm 23. My other religious "training" just confused me (thankfully, I don't remember anything specific about it!) and made me realize that these first two "denominations" were vain, empty, and lifeless. I remember being disgusted at having to kiss a statue's feet, being forced to eat a wafer cookie and drink wine from a communal cup, and being horrified at the thought of making a first confess...