2018-01-19
God’s Ways Are Right
God knows what is best. No struggle will come your way apart from his purpose, presence, and permission. What encouragement this brings! You are never the victim of nature or the prey of fate.
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2017-12-27
Get Over Yourself
When you have a chance to clap and cheer, do you take it? “In humility consider others better than yourselves.” Philippians 2:3
Read more..2017-11-22
Choose the Presence of God
God repeatedly pledges his presence to his people! To Abram, God said, “Do not be afraid.
Read more..2017-10-27
God Is Able
What will happen if your job disappears? Or your health diminishes? Or the economy takes
Read more..2017-10-11
A New Chapter for Your Life
The anxious heart says, “There’s trouble out there!” So you don’t sleep well. You don’t laugh often. Misfortune lurks... it’s just a matter of time.
Read more..2017-09-19
Grateful for Grace
God knew that we would someday need his grace. That is why he gave it to us before we needed it. Max Lucado gives a splendid example of this....
Read more..2017-08-20
God Will Never Give Up!
God moves us forward by healing our past! Can he really? Can God heal this
Read more..2017-07-26
God is Doing What’s Best for Us
God is at work in each of us whether we know it or not, whether
Read more..2017-07-16
Enjoy God’s Presence
You will never go where God is not! Envision the next few hours of your
Read more..2017-07-06
His First Choice
You are God’s child. He saw you, picked you, and placed you! Jesus said,
Read more..2017-06-30
Don’t Be Afraid
Sometimes what we need is just a word of encouragement, isn’t it? And God gives a word—to the overwhelmed.
Read more..2017-06-25
The God Who Stoops… And Stands
“Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, ‘Where are your accusers? Didn’t
Read more..2017-06-03
A Prayer to Stay on God’s Path
Abba, thank you for sending a helper to direct my steps. You know everything and will guide me in your will. Help me to know your will. Keep me on...
Read more..2017-05-13
The Mount Everest of Love Writings
1 Corinthians 13 is the Mount Everest of love writings. And no words get to the heart of loving people like verses 4-8:
Read more..2017-04-30
God in the Crisis
Calamities can leave us off balance and confused. Consider the crisis of Joseph’s generation as
Read more..2017-03-09
God’s Child
"The Father has loved us so much that we are called children of God. And we really are his children." 1 John 3:1 (NCV)
Read more..2017-01-26
Wash Each Other’s Feet
Jesus said to His disciples: “If I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet,
Read more..2017-01-17
God Loves Humility
“He saves the humble.” Psalm 149:4 With the same intensity that He hates arrogance, God
Read more..2017-01-05
Where is God?
It is important to recognize that God dwells in a different realm. He occupies another dimension. “My thoughts are not like your thoughts. Your ways are not like my ways. Just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8–9).
Read more..2016-12-09
What Love Says
1 Peter 4:8 says “Love covers a multitude of sins.” Love doesn’t expose. It doesn’t gossip. If love says anything, it speaks words of protection.
Read more..2016-11-30
A Big View of God
Exactly what is worship? I like King David’s definition in Psalm 34:3, “O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.” Worship is the act of magnifying God, enlarging our vision of him, and observing how he works.
Read more..2016-11-20
Looking Unto Jesus
When things hurt, I’ve learned I have options. Go home. Meditate on my hurts until I start imagining I’m having chest pains—or—I can keep running and watch the sun come up.
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