“Jesus loves me this I know … ”. For many, the song is ingrained in their soul; we’ve sang it since childhood. We say we believe it. Living faith is a different story. Sometimes our hearts cry, “THIS is what love feels like?” The bank sends a foreclosure notice. The ...
Read More »Those Pharisees: “Do as I say, not as I do.”
Most parents soon learn that their children imitate what they do more often than they listen to what they say. Who hasn’t had an embarrassing moment with their child when an inappropriate word or behavior was mimicked? Though we’d like to believe our children listen to what we say in ...
Read More »It’s All About How You Handle Stress
What would life be like if we had no stress? I won’t kid, it sounds pretty good to me. No challenges, no heartaches, no crisis, no emergencies, no tough choices, no hassles. Sign me up! What is stress? Stress is (technically, according to Webster’s):a state of mental tension and worry caused ...
Read More »I Just Want To End It All
And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed. And the keeper of ...
Read More »Babies: God’s Second Chances (Part 1)
Babies are God’s generous gifts of change to broken mankind. With the hope that the preceding generation will be better than the last, He repeatedly blesses us with second chances through the birth of each baby boy or girl. God specifically appoints each with a purpose, “Before I formed you in ...
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