Overcoming sizable obstacles helps us grow, and makes us a formidable opponent to life’s chaos. The least resistant path is not always Jesus’s answer for us, as this will come back to haunt us. However, if we take on the
Dear friend, You are saved by grace. You received that grace through faith especially when you are tired. There is no room for boasting about being saved. Neither is there any room for belittling Jews who have rejected the message
It was one of those days. The kind of day where the bills pile up, the dishes taunt, and the phone won’t stop ringing. Guilt trips tugged. Vacation seemed like a far-off hallucination. And the list of duties expanded into
Sometimes we just don’t know where to start or how to pray. At times like that, we have lots of resources to turn to in the Word. Paul’s prayer for his friends in Phillipi is a beautiful and comprehensive prayer
As the year continues, let’s all hope that it brings lots of joy and no sorrows. Let’s all hope that things will all get better for us all! Amen? Even though we may want that, we’ve learned that Nobody is
If you are stressed, you should read this — but don’t let it stress you out. In the high-speed, wired, always-reachable 21st century America we live in, chronic stress is very hard to avoid. The American Psychological Association finds year
Maybe it was the way he said her name. The inflection. The tone. The Galilean accent. Maybe it was the memory associated with it, the moment she first heard someone say her name without demons screaming it in her mind.
“Your son will not live. There’s nothing we can do.” What do you do when you receive news that threatens to destroy your world? When you’re told that there is no hope? No light at the end of the tunnel?
“Lord, give me patience and give it to me right now!” This was a frequent prayer my mother spoke over me frequently in my boyhood years. This prayer may say more about me as a boy than it does about
Scan the magazine racks at the checkout today. Look at their endless headlines of who has found love, lost love, and their Top 10 lists of how to lure love and make love. Look at the movies we watch, the
Terrorists terrify us. But from an eternal perspective, they may touch the body, but they can never touch the soul. “Dear friends, don’t be afraid of these who want to murder you. They can only kill the body; they have
We’ve just stepped over the threshold of a new year. Just a few nights ago, the second hand clicked past midnight and 2024 became 2025. It is time for a fresh start, a new day, a clean slate…Who are we
Marcus sat in his beat-up sedan, the engine idling roughly, staring at the gray concrete wall of the warehouse where he worked. The clock on his Read More »
On January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into the Potomac River shortly after takeoff, killing all but five of the 79 people on board. Read More »
Have you been dealing with an illness, a difficulty, a problem or a circumstance for a long time? Are answers for you either not showing up, Read More »
“When Pharaoh finally let the people go, God did not lead them along the main road that runs through Philistine territory, even though that was the Read More »
How to really live instead of just existing has plagued me for years. I know the truth that all believers are a new creation in Christ. But very Read More »
Be not dismayed or downcast, Jesus is with you in the “struggles”, His help will help change things if you pray more!