Free at last, my sins are forgiven! Thank God, I’m free at last … but what does this MEAN? Forgiveness of sin means I am ...
“… intent on one purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves.” –Philippians 2:2b-3 ...
The difference between “worthy” and “entitled” is a willingness to do the work. A worthy person believes they are qualified to receive good things, and ...
My 5-year old daughter loves to find birds in our neighborhood and try to call them to come to her. “Tweet tweet” she says. “Tweet ...
Every new day is a new page, blank on one side and covered on the other with all that has come before. You cannot change ...
Have you ever had that moment where you stand on a scale to weigh yourself, see the numbers fluctuating, and try to *will* them to ...
I got lost at DFW International Airport when I was 6 years old. My father and I were there to pick up a family member, ...
“This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith.” -1 John 5:4b God has shown you the pathway to ultimate victory, a salvation ...
On a bike ride with my family the other day, a black snake darted right across our path. Thankfully, we simply rolled on by and ...
There is so much sin, failure, and wrong in the lineage of Jesus recorded in Matthew 1 that you might think these people would be ...
This is my Easy Button, a desktop toy from Staples that added flare and fun to my working environment for many years. I’m throwing it ...
GREAT LEADERS know when to step up, and when to step down. They are ready to step in when needed, and willing to step aside ...
A couple of weeks ago, billionaire Jeff Bezos had a really, really important conversation with a 90-year old man that could have gone really, really ...
Did you hear Captain Kirk finally made it to space for real? Last week, 90-year-old William Shatner not only became the oldest person ever to ...
On September 11, 2001, I was working at the News-Press, our local paper. Like every other American, that morning I woke to a new world, ...
Plenty of people talk about the power of organic marketing and how simple it can be when done correctly. But if you do it wrong… ...
A few weeks ago I got sick and wondered what everyone does these days… “Is it Covid? It turns out it wasn’t, but… I was ...
It’s easy to assume the current way you’re working, living, and operating is just “the way things are.” Until you discover a better way. It’s ...
Remember when the whole world lost their mind over toilet paper? Stores couldn’t keep it in stock. People hoarded it and treated it like gold. ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Psalm 62 GOD CARES FOR YOU AT ALL TIMES Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us. (Psalm 62:8) God is not looking for shiny happy people all the time. He’s not …
TOPICS: cares, faithfulness, Father, prayer, Psalm 62, sorrow, trouble
God’s Hope for Your Heart from 2 Corinthians 1 GOD WILL DELIVER YOU FROM DESPAIR For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on …
TOPICS: 2 Corinthians 1, burden, overcoming, prayer, rescue, victory
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Psalm 56 GOD WILL BE YOUR CONFIDENCE IN TIMES OF TROUBLE This I know, that God is for me. In God, whose word I praise, in the Lord, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can man …
TOPICS: adversity, fear, need, prayer, Psalm 56, strength, trial, trouble, trust, worry
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Psalm 55 GOD WILL HEAR YOUR VOICE IN TIMES OF NEED Evening and morning and at noon, I utter my complaint and moan, and He hears my voice. (Psalm 55:17) Trouble strikes at the most inconvenient times. Here is David, ruler of Israel, man …
TOPICS: cry, hearing, help, prayer, Psalm 55, trial, trouble
God’s Hope for Your Heart from 1 Corinthians 2 GOD’S SPIRIT IS YOUR ACCESS TO GOD’S BLESSINGS Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. (1 Corinthians 2:12) All throughout …
TOPICS: 1 Corinthians 2, faith, favor, intimacy, prayer, provision, Receiving, trust
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Psalm 50 GOD IS YOUR GLORIOUS DELIVERER Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to the Most High, and call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me. (Psalm 50:14-15) Days of …
TOPICS: answers, deliverance, help, prayer, Psalm 50
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Romans 4 WHEN YOU LIFT GOD UP, HE LIFTS YOU UP, TOO He grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God. (Romans 4:20b) In the midst of impossible circumstances, Abraham’s faith stayed strong. In the face of unbeatable odds, Abraham’s confidence …
TOPICS: faith, glory, help, perspective, praise, prayer, Romans 4, strength
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Acts 19 JESUS HAS TRUE POWER JUST FOR YOU Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.” Seven sons of …
TOPICS: Acts 19, authority, demons, help, prayer, spiritual warfare, strength, temptation
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Psalm 43 GOD IS YOUR REFUGE IN TIMES OF TROUBLE In the wake of an historic Supreme Court decision that has left so many believers saddened and afraid for what’s to come, the best thoughts of all are not those I could share from …
TOPICS: culture, fear, persecution, prayer, Psalm 43, trial, uncertainty, worry
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Psalm 42 GOD IS YOUR HOPE FOR TOMORROW As a deer longs for streams of water, so I long for You, God. I thirst for God, the living God. When can I come and appear before God? (Psalm 42:1-2, HCSB) Longing and thirst are …
TOPICS: communion, dryness, feelings, intimacy, prayer, Psalm 42, stagnation
