Stepping Up
Father God, You alone know how inadequate I feel for the task You are calling me to. Help me to have the courage to say “yes”.
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A Front Row Seat
Why God does want me to be in community with other believers? Why can’t I just do church on my own? People always make things so complicated and messy.
Let God Choose
Let God choose for you, it will be the right decision. Let God guide you, it will be the right direction.
Saying “Yes” to God
God’s call is primarily to have a relationship with Him characterized by daily surrender
BEWARE! We Have Many Observers
Question: What do 'they' see when they observe you? People are observing you.
Lessons from a One-Legged Sandpiper
Lord, Help us not to cave into our circumstances, but to see them as opportunities to run the race with an endurance that only comes from keeping our eyes fixed on You.
Dealing with Fear
Circumstances are external and often beyond your control. But your response originates within.
Fearing the Father
We sometimes treat God like a strict teacher who hands out grades, awards, and detentions. We make our good behavior the determining factor for receiving good things from Him.
The Tapestry of Life
“For you created my inmost being, you knit me together in my mother’s womb…My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in…
Living in the Light
What would it look like if you lived as a ‘child of the light’? How do you guard your heart against temptation and sin?
“Hanging In There” Not Allowed!
I've got a mission today. It's as big as the Kingdom of God on earth. Find out my part today and do it. "Hanging in there" not allowed!
Blurred Vision
Reading the Bible at the start of the day is a good place to invite the presence of Jesus in to quiet our rushing about. However, I have found it requires a submissive heart…
Our Mistakes Do Not Define Us
God does not describe us by our failures…or our successes—and that’s freeing because God’s love is not dependent on what we do, or fail to do. We are loved by God, not because we…
Triumph in Tragedy
What do you say we have a chat about grave-clothes? Sound like fun? Sound like a cheery topic?
Where Does My Help Come From?
God—your rescuer, has the right vision. He also has the right direction. He made the boldest claim in the history of man
Is it Your Planting Season?
What opportunity, relationship, project, ministry or other “seeds” has God put in your pocket waiting to be planted?
Oh Death, Where is Your Sting?
And if you are struggling with the loss or imminent loss of a loved one, take heart, there is hope and there is victory and it is found in the arms of Jesus.
Get In and Get Out!
Isn’t this a bit like being a ‘closet’ Christian? By this I mean that one becomes a Christian, studies about being a Christian, learn all about what it is to be a Christian, even…
Seed Planters
I used to work in a program where overtly talking about God was not allowed. It took me years to resolve the fact that while I couldn’t speak the name of Jesus, I could…
After What I Did, Can God Use Me Again?
When we have sinned, we are prone to think that, even though God forgives us, our life of service is finished. Our reputation is ruined. We’re a complete failure. Satan wants us to live…
When Death Becomes Birth
Many of us weep at the thought of death. Do you? Do you dread your death? And is your dread of death robbing your joy of life?
Watch Your Anger – Psalm 37:8
“Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret – it leads only to evil” Psalm 37:8
