God has blessed me with friendship with some amazing women. One of them is Karen Loss, author of Trekking Through Cancerland . She is a survivor of Stage 4 lung cancer though she never was a smoker. Today, I’d like to share our friendship with you, my readers, so you might be blessed and encouraged […]
Just imagine for a moment if we could earn our way out of our sin predicament and separation from God. I can picture a few different scenarios: We’d be beating each other up for opportunities to earn our way out of Hell. We’d procrastinate, waiting until the last minute like cramming for finals. We’d misjudge […]
Have you ever noticed that at the same time submission has become a dirty word, authority has become an object of hatred? What began as a breakdown of Christian education became a relational breakdown in the home and that became a systemic breakdown in our culture. The circle of chaos repeats, enlarging with every generation. […]
Do you trust God? Some of us say “You bet!” Some of us say “Yes, but…” Some of us don’t trust Him at all or even acknowledge His existence. Truth is, I’m in the “Yes, but” category more often than I’d like to think. Trusting God day in and day out is really easy…until He […]
We’re living in a time in which it’s hard to live a godly life. I don’t know that it’s ever been easy, but it seems like there’s much in our instant-gratification-culture that establishes a quick lure to the dark side. If we’re not careful by actively, continually pressing into goodness, Boom! There we are. On […]
How well do you accept other people? Accept that they are different from you? Accept their different gifts, abilities, skills, temperaments, and idiosyncrasies? If everyone had your gifts, abilities, skills, temperament, and idiosyncrasies, would you even like them? Or would they suddenly become competition instead of kindred spirits? I cannot think of anyone more unlike […]
