Bible Study on the Book of Titus Here is a free copy of the Bible study on Titus that I wrote/led during May of 2020 virtually (during the quarantine). Please feel free to use and share this study for your own groups. Text of Book of Titus Titus Study, Week 1- Overview ecb Titus chapter…
Category: Other Essays
For Such a Time As This: Living in quarantine, but not in exile
First published on the Christian Camps and Conferences website as a blog from a ‘camper mom’. March 20, 2020 We’re studying the books of Ruth and Esther in our women’s Bible studies at church (and now virtually). It’s been encouraging to step back and see the common themes running through both books. Namely, God is in control and…
Finding Joy in January
First published on the enCourage blog, a PCA Women’s Ministry. January 6, 2020. I don’t want to be contrary but talk about the new year never sits well with me. Yes, it’s a new year, I get it. One day it’s 2019 and the next day—and perhaps a few noise makers later—it’s 2020. The media…
A Rustle In The Garden
A Rustle in the Garden BY ESTHER BAIRD Published in RevelantONLINE on APRIL 5, 2012 Last year, after we celebrated Easter, our first-grade daughter, who was suddenly on a story-writing tear, decided to write down an Easter account she could read to our family. She wrote seven pages full of great detail: Jesus on the…
Which Duty Calls
By Esther C. Baird Published in the Boston Parent’s Paper Magazine in March 2007: I’d never been called for jury duty. Probably because I’d moved every two years since I was 18. So I knew it was simply a matter of time before the system caught up with me in my stable Northshore existence. And…
Weighty Matters
This article was originally published in ePregnancy in October 2005, but I no longer have the final electronic version (i.e. the edited version) so this is the final version I submitted and what I believe is the closest to the final. ______ I have gained 20 pounds and I am 20 weeks pregnant. This feels…
Following the Ladle Home
This was first published in the spring of 2005 in the magazine Adirondack Life, but I no longer have an electronic version so this is what I believe is a [nearly] final version before it went to print. Apologies for any mistakes/typos, they are mine not ALs. _____________ Simply fly to the “second star on…
George the First
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