Tag: joy

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2025-06-25

The Dark and Lonely Closet of Regret

Regret is like a hot potato. Hold onto it for any period of time and it will burn you. Regret basically leaves God out of the picture.

2025-06-20

Enthusiasm

Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." I find God in the places where I am most enthusiastic.

2025-06-15

What My Dad did Right

During my teen years, I tended to focus on what I thought my dad did wrong. Now adays I find myself reflecting more and more on what my dad did right,

2025-06-13

Leaving a Legacy for Christ

Have you thought about the legacy you want to leave and the impact you want to make on the lives of others?

2025-06-11

Inspired by Joy

It’s an un-ordinary challenge to consider trials pure joy! It seems unreasonable. “Consider it pure joy whenever you face trials of many kinds because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.

2025-06-03

Break Out of Loneliness

Are you waiting for others to reach out to you? How about reaching out to them? Maybe you should take the first step. You are not the only one who is Lonely.

2025-06-01

Whatever You Do

Matthew 25:40 I believe these verses are talking about helping people in need — or refusing to help them.

2025-05-30

Book of Life

I am to be whom God has made me: fragile, fallible and dependent on Him in the mess and muck of life but not sucked in by it.

2025-05-29

I Have a Choice

Every choice we make takes us down a certain path. Either to a person that is in harmony with God...

2025-05-25

Walking with Jesus

This journey of life was meant to be traveled with Jesus. He wants to direct our footsteps. He desires to share our journey and travel through each season with us. As life crowds in, and the worries of the world bombard us, we often forget that Jesus is right there beside us.

2025-05-24

Fix Your Eyes on the Future

In the future, the soul will be made perfect, and fit to partake in the inheritance promised to God’s saints.

2025-05-22

A Dog Named Sky

God is good and it gives Him pleasure to bless us with His good things.

2025-05-21

Am I Significant?

“Mommy, is I big?” asks my almost three-year-old son Jack. “Am I someone special, someone significant?”

2025-05-15

Yes, Lord, Yes!

I suspect that God is just as frustrated with me when I say “yes” to Him and then don't do what He wants me to do.

2025-05-07

Perfect Love Casts Out Fear

God longs for me to draw near him. He has shown me his heart by sending Jesus. . If he loves me that much, then I can trust that his desire is to save and bless me.

2025-05-06

God is Timeless

You have to be amazed at the speed of communications today. But even more amazing is the fact that God knows and hears our prayers even before we think about them or open our mouths.

2025-05-06

Handling Difficult Circumstances

Focusing on Christ is neither a natural reaction nor an easy one. Our instinct is to dwell on the situation at hand, searching for solutions or stewing over the pain and difficulty. As a result, troubles look scary and overwhelm us with a sense of defeat.

2025-04-21

The Shirt Off His Back

"And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.” 1 John 3:16 Today, someone offered me the shirt off his back.

2025-04-21

The Silent Waiting

One thing you can say about the world we live in is that it’s a noisy place. Silence is not always easy to find.

2025-04-15

He’s Still Knocking

I wonder how many times during the day Jesus gently knocks to warn me of his waiting presence? Not a warning that danger is imminent (though that may be true), but to warn in the sense of putting me on the alert, giving me notice that he is ready to give counsel or send some special message of his love.

2025-04-14

The Joy of the Lord!

"Bless the Lord, oh my soul and all that is within me praise His Holy Name." Psalm 103:1

2025-04-06

Intersecting Eternity

The joy I get in pastoral ministry: a word or deed here has the power to touch the inmost parts of a person’s heart, extend to the ends of the earth, and last forever.

2025-04-05

Truly This Was the Son of God

Let’s peer into the window of time and see Jesus’ last hours on earth as he hangs on the cross. His worst enemies in attendance.

2025-04-04

God’s Love

Diana says she’s not afraid of her past. In fact, her dramatic change speaks volumes about God’s love.

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