Too many loose ends were left undone just before my vacation started last weekend and a difficult and unfinished phone system installation did not leave my customer or myself in good spirits, much less the Christmas spirit. Even though I knew the Lord would make everything turn out OK eventually, the past week’s frustrations and confrontations [...]
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Remembering what God did for you: “I sought the Lord and He answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.” (Psalm 34:1) Enables you to believe what He will do for you: “The Lord will accomplish what concerns me.” (Psalm 138:8) This builds your trust in Him: “To You, O Lord, I lift up [...]
If you haven’t read My utmost For His Highest, a daily devotional book by Oswald Chambers, you really need to. For several years it was the top-selling Christian book in America and it has been challenging me every day. I like how he explains the significance of the Incarnation and how Christ becomes manifest in us, [...]
Wow! It’s already been a year since I started this blog! I’ve really enjoyed learning how to build this site and the challenge of sharing what the Lord has been teaching me. With all the articles and books available to us these days, what did I think I had to say that hasn’t already been said? [...]
When I was young you taught me how to throw and catch a ball. Your love for God and His creation was contagious to us all. You and Mom would save a seat for me in the pew. And taught me all about the Lord as He was teaching you. A teacher by profession you [...]
Is God still doing his cool stuff today? I believe he is. The scale may not be as impressive as it was in Bible times, but I still think the Lord is behind a lot of the spectacular stories we hear: people being raised from the dead, limbs stretching out to normal, miraculous healings, and [...]
Definition of a miracle in Dictionary.com: an effect or extraordinary event in the physical world that surpasses all known human or natural powers and is ascribed to a supernatural cause. Last week I took my turn with some friends reading publicly a portion of 2 kings during the Bible Marathon. It had been a [...]
I once heard a pastor say you can tell a lot about a person by looking at his checkbook. When you look at how much people have cut back on giving to their church and charities, you’d think that half the people in this nation had lost their jobs instead of only 10%. I can [...]
Time and change take their toll on us. Growing old, ailing health, death, and stuff that happens rob us of our favorite pleasures and relationships one by one. Here today, gone tomorrow as the saying goes. No one I know has experienced this more than my mother, who has seen her husband and all eight [...]
Jesus is either Lord of all or not Lord at all. Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have. The antidote to fear is trust, not courage. Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the [...]
In everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. (Thessalonians 5:18) Giving thanks is not just a command. It reminds us of the good things we have in this life, which changes our perspective and disposition. Human nature tends to dwell on bad and difficult things, and takes for granted all that God has [...]
Four things determine who we become: Who we know – family, friends, co-workers, God What we know – TV, movies, radio, music, books, Bible, word of mouth What we experience – voluntary and involuntary What we do – decisions, behavior That may seem basic, but how we approach the above will decide our quality of life, [...]
Jeff Patton, one of our teaching pastors where I worship at Fellowship Bible Church, helped me uncover something on Sunday that I never discovered before. I’ve read Ephesians 5:3,4 many times: “sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish [...]
