June 18, 2024
Reasons for Joy
Are you so focused on what you don’t have that you’re blind to what you do?
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May 29, 2024
Contentment
What if God’s only gift to you were his grace to save you? Would you be content?
Read more..May 26, 2024
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,
Read more..April 12, 2024
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 love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.”
Read more..April 3, 2024
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 have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. ” (1 John 4:17).
Read more..March 29, 2024
Father, Forgive Them
The dialogue that Friday morning was bitter. From the religious leaders, “He saved others but he can’t save himself.”
Read more..March 5, 2024
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.
Read more..February 17, 2024
The Dynamics of Mercy
Jesus says the merciful are shown mercy. Forgiving others allows us to see how God has forgiven us.
Read more..January 17, 2024
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 wait patiently for Him.” A -Act on it. Be a doer, not a stewer.
Read more..December 3, 2023
Welcome Jesus into the Turbulence
Welcome Jesus into the midst of this turbulent time. Don’t let the storm turn you inward. Let it turn you upward.
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