Learning to Listen
If you want to be just like Jesus, let God have you. Spend time listening for him until you receive your lesson for the day—then apply it.
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Contentment
What if God’s only gift to you were his grace to save you? Would you be content?
Loving as God Loves
Our friends need a flood of tears. Our children need to be covered in the oil of our love. But if we haven’t received these things ourselves,
Son Reflectors
What would happen if we accepted our place as Son reflectors? How can we be bumped off self-center?
When Your Heart Needs a Father
You may be willing to stop being God's child. But God is not willing to stop being your Father.
On the Anvil
On the solid anvil, the smoldering iron is remolded. We are remolded by God, if we let him. Are you letting him?
Patience Freely Offered
God does more than demand patience from us; He offers it to us. Patience is a fruit of His Spirit. It hangs from the tree of Galatians 5:22: “The Spirit produces the fruit of…
When You Face a Wall of Fear
Perhaps standing before you is a wall of fear. Brick upon brick of anxiety and dread. Haunting you are the kings of confusion. “Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may…
Father, Forgive Them
The dialogue that Friday morning was bitter. From the religious leaders, “He saved others but he can’t save himself.”
Changed from the Inside Out
The stumbles of a toddler do not invalidate the act of birth. And the stumbles of a Christian do not annul his spiritual birth.
Give Us This Day our Daily Bread
There are times when we literally push ourselves back from the table. Then there are those days when we have to eat our broccoli.
God Gets into Our Lives
What the hand is to the glove, the Holy Spirit is to the Christian . . . God gets into us. At times, imperceptibly. Other times, disruptively.
Love Covers a Multitude of Sins
One thing is sure. They love you! No makeup. No power tie. No status jewelry. No layers of images. Just unkempt honesty.
Worry is Optional
Some of us have postgraduate degrees from the University of Anxiety. We go to sleep worried that we won’t wake up.
What Makes Heaven Heavenly
Heaven is a perfect place of perfected people with our perfect Lord. You’ll love it! Never weary, selfish, or defeated.
God Has a Plan
Has God permitted a time of darkness in your world? But be assured, God has a pattern. He has a plan. He is not finished.
The Dynamics of Mercy
Jesus says the merciful are shown mercy. Forgiving others allows us to see how God has forgiven us.
Fretting is Futile
No one has to remind you of the high cost of anxiety. (But I will anyway). Worry divides the mind. Anxiety is an expensive habit. Of course, it might be worth the cost if…
The Prison of Pride
Blessed are those who know they’re in trouble and have enough sense to admit it!
Call it Grace
Apart from Christ you are not holy. So how can you go to heaven? Only believe. Accept the work already done, the work of Jesus on the cross.
What’s Done is Done
“The wages of sin is death.” Sin is fatal. Your failures are not fatal, my friend! We have a father who cares for us in spite of our failures
Worry Stoppers to Bring Peace
Here are eight worry-stoppers, found in the letters of the word P-E-A-C-E-F-U-L. First, P - Pray, first. “Casting the whole of your care upon Him …” E -Easy, now. “Rest in the Lord, and…