We are all slaves to something and we always become like the one we serve.
Category: faith
God’s Plan for Freedom (That Lasts)
God's plan for our lives is peanut-butter-and-jelly simple but so often we want to put the peanut butter and jelly on the outside and wonder why our lives are such a sticky mess.
What to pray when we don’t know what to pray
Have you ever had a heartache so deep or a circumstance so overwhelming that you just didn’t know what to pray? You go before God and try to bare your heart to Him but the words just won’t come? It seems when you start to pray the hurt is so deep that all you can … Continue reading What to pray when we don’t know what to pray
Standing Against the Norm
Standing against the crowd for God makes you stand OUT from the crowd. It makes you a target to your enemies but a focus of blessing to God.
God Already has a Plan
Many well-meaning Christians run around through life worried about “messing up” and live under the delusion: “If I mess up, God will be done with me.” That’s a lie. Because God already knows you’re going to mess up and He already has a plan for when you do! Look at what He told Israel before … Continue reading God Already has a Plan
Seeing Beyond Our Troubles
It’s easy to think that our troubles are bigger than God because our troubles are so close. Things take a turn for the worse, the world as we know it ceases to function in the way we think it ought to and we immediately think that God is not all He says He is, or … Continue reading Seeing Beyond Our Troubles
Blue Bird of Happiness, Meet the Red Bird of Stupidity
It happens – thunk – every year – thunk! In the Spring – thunk! For about a month – thunk! This male robin makes his home in a tree next to our house and attacks all our windows. Why? Because he sees his reflection as his competition. He could be running around impressing the lady … Continue reading Blue Bird of Happiness, Meet the Red Bird of Stupidity
Difficulty, Deprivation, Deceit – and the Glory of God?
As God continued preparing the people of Israel for their entry into the Promised Land and the blessings they would face, He made some startling revelations about their past journey and their future. The difficulties they faced along the way were not just allowed by God, they were authored by Him. And thou shalt remember … Continue reading Difficulty, Deprivation, Deceit – and the Glory of God?
With great blessing comes great responsibility
As God prepared His people to enter the Promised Land, He told them of the blessings that awaited them there: Deuteronomy 6:10-13(10) And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great … Continue reading With great blessing comes great responsibility
Accepting God’s New Normal
Some things cannot go back to the way they used to be.
