Category: Rollyn’s Reads

A dough bowl, also called a kneading trough, is a wooden vessel traditionally used for mixing, raising, and kneading yeast dough for making bread. It was hand-carved from a single piece of wood. It could be oval, round, or rectangular, and vary in size and width. The requirements for mixing bread are typically flour, yeast,…

Have you ever wondered how many of us would care to have our sin(s) be made known publicly? I would dare say not too many.  It would be a humbling experience.  A few years back, songwriter Ray Stevens wrote a tune called, “The Day the Squirrel Went to Church.”  It was a humorous tale of…

Back in high school, I made a poor decision.  A friend of mine wanted me to smoke some “weed” with him.  Being naïve, I went along with it but was not too happy with my decision the next day.  My misstep could have caused me to lose my position as student body President and even…

The word sealed in the New Testament comes from a Greek word that means “to stamp with a private mark” in the interest of keeping something secret or protected. In these last days, we are told that those who follow YHVH will be sealed.  Will we know the identity of those sealed?  Will we be the ones…

Have you ever had a person in your life that you would do anything for them?  Maybe you feel that way because they were there for you at your most vulnerable moment.  Maybe they are a person who knows you better than anyone else.  Maybe they rescued you from a catastrophe.  Or maybe you just…

To this day, I still have family members and friends who say to me, “Why do you follow the laws in the Old Testament, aren’t they just meant for the Jews?”  Have you ever had to wrestle with this?  At times, I get tired of the question, but mostly I get super excited to share…

I’ve always disliked the notion of being “perfect” so that others might think I am a good person.  To me, this was sort of a lie.  How can I be perfect if my very nature is corrupted?  Like many of you, I still have to deal with my private self, which I know is not…

After some 15 years, I still remember some amazing words given to me from my master teacher while completing certification in Life Coaching.  He stressed the idea that we should always pay attention to circumstances given to us, in that these very circumstances are God’s way of drawing our attention to our own “challenges.”  He…

What am I good for?  What can I possibly do?  Where can I serve in the body of believers?  Is there any kind of job made for me in the world?  How do I know if Yahweh God wants me to do a particular job?  Have you ever had these questions, run across your mind? …

While in Florida, I witnessed a little girl crying uncontrollably.  She was yelling and screaming because her parents wanted her to stop playing so that they could all eat dinner.  Even though they tried to remind her about her hunger, she wouldn’t listen, because she wanted “to play.” She didn’t even notice that the rest…