It doesn’t have to be like this! This afternoon my heart is broken. It was a silent and somber ride home after visiting the Intensive Care Unit at the hospital. Images of someone I know lying in the hospital bed with hoses and cords attached to the beeping machines and monitors only framed the vivid evidence of brutal trauma…
You too be patient; strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near! James 5:8 Do you ever feel like you are a total failure as a Christian? Maybe you were angry at a family member or coworker. Maybe a trial overwhelmed you and your response has been complaining, impatience, and irritability. Has the Holy…
“And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. “He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it.” Matthew 10:38-39 As I read these verses in my personal devotions this week, the Holy Spirit reminded me…
Many times we have good and important things to say to another person, but how and when we say them makes an incredible difference in the way that message will be received. Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of…
What is your view of the Bible? Is it boring, too complicated, irrelevant today? Satan has succeeded in feeding you a lie! (2 Timothy 3:16-17) “If I were the devil (please, no comment), one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible. Knowing that it is the Word of…
He gives strength to the weary, And to him who lacks might He increases power. 30 Though youths grow weary and tired, And vigorous young men stumble badly, 31 Yet those who wait for the LORD Will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary.…