May 5, 2023
What’s on Your Mind?
Guarding our thoughts, being sober-minded, and meditating on eternal truth will produce a transformation the Bible calls the “renewing of the mind.” (Romans 12:2)
Read more..Thoughts By Bethany Hayes
April 27, 2023
The Debt We Always Owe
Recently, the Lord enabled me to get out from under a debt that would have taken years to pay off. As soon as it was paid, I logged into my account to look at the zero next to my loan and to bask in the feeling of "Paid in Full."
Read more..April 13, 2023
The Love that Will Not Let You Go
If His love was anything less than tenacious and loyal, He would have tired of you and me long ago.
Read more..March 29, 2023
Sweet Half Hour of Prayer
How many of us have an hour to pray? Though it would be sweet, can we really find that much time in a day or even a week to commit solely to prayer? These words of Christ to His sleeping disciples come to mind like words cutting deep: “Could you not watch with me one hour?” (Matthew 26:40)
Read more..January 4, 2023
His Strength Made Ours
His strength. Made ours. “. . . out of weakness were made strong.”(Hebrews 11:34)
Read more..December 22, 2022
Why Are We Celebrating Christmas?
Answer: Jesus was born! How would the average person answer that question? Tradition? Family? Love for hearth and home? Read the rest...
Read more..November 28, 2022
A Message and a Promise
A Message and a Promise. No matter the doubts, the frustrations, the “wish-things-were-different” thinking that takes our affection off things above, in Christ, we can be confident that it will be well with us.
Read more..November 7, 2022
How to Turn Tangled Thoughts into Trust
How should every tangled thought respond to such a powerful God? Trust. “He is a shield to all those who trust in him.” (Psalm 18:30b)
Read more..October 14, 2022
When You Feel Like a Failure
“I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come . . . shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:38-39)
Read more..October 12, 2022
When You Can’t Pray – Give Thanks
We find it hard to pray; not because we don’t have anything to ask for, but because we're too disheartened to pray.
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