Your Band of Supporters

Throughout my life, during both good and bad times, I can recall how God placed people in my life to help me. There were traumatic events where someone lifted me up and put me back on my feet as well as times where they celebrated with me. This mighty band of God’s faithful reminds me […]

Wednesday Walk—A Sailor’s Tale

“We were doomed, all of us!” The old man dipped his head for a moment and stared into the dying embers of the fire where we were all gathered. “It was a storm like nothing I had seen in all my years sailing those seas.” His eyes met mine. I could see the light from […]

Prayer Journal–Surrender

What does it mean to surrender all to you dear Lord? What does it mean to offer my life to you dear God, to lay all I have at your feet? To invite you in to dine with me, share life with me, and talk with me each day. To guide my life to serve […]

Sunday Praise

O come, let us sing for joy to the LORD,Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving,Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.For the LORD is a great GodAnd a great King above all gods,In whose hand are the depths of the earth,The peaks of […]

The Gift of Adversity

The LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. – Job 42:12, NASB When reading the book of Job, there’s a tendency to focus on what Job lost and then regained in terms of family and wealth. However, there is one thing that Job never lost and held onto through his entire […]

New Life Out of Suffering

There are times in life when you may feel like you are walking across a hot desert. You are emotionally drained, squeezed dry by life. Your mouth is parched, your body weakened. It seems no one is there to give you a cup of water to revive you. It may be hard to see, but […]

Prayer Journal–Trust

Trust. Do I trust that you are in all things dear Lord? Can I trust the God of all things, the God who created me in His image for a purpose? Can I trust you dear God are in all things? At times I do not understand, Lord, when I do not see your purpose. […]

Sunday Praise

The living, the living—they praise you,as I am doing today;parents tell their childrenabout your faithfulness.The LORD will save me,and we will sing with stringed instrumentsall the days of our livesin the temple of the LORD. – Isaiah 38:19-20, NIV

Empty Nets and Emptiness or Fullness in Christ

Yet there he is in your boat, right in the middle of your life. He’s teaching to the crowds but it seems he’s speaking directly to you. In the same places you’ve fished all your life for meaning, he has you cast your nets. Knowing the routine, you protest but give in. But this time they come up with the fullness of Christ.

The Consequences of Jealousy

Jealousy is a dangerous emotion. It is closely related to discontent. Both can lead us to sin against others if they are not kept in check. In Daniel 6:1-24, we see how jealousy led the commissioners and satraps to pursue killing Daniel. As Daniel distinguished himself from the others in the king’s court “because he […]