We all go through times when life seems to overwhelm us. The Bible reassures us that God’s presence is with us to help us, even when we don’t realize it. The Book of Psalms is full of reminders that God is a shelter from life’s storms, a refuge and strength, an ever-present help in…
Follow Jesus
Be willing to follow wherever I lead. Follow Me wholeheartedly, with glad anticipation quickening your pace. Though you don’t know what lies ahead, I know; and that is enough! Some of My richest blessings are just around the bend: out of sight, but nonetheless very real. To receive these gifts, you must walk by faith…
Pain Is a Microphone
There Will Be Blood Pain is a microphone. And the more it hurts, the louder you get. Suffering isn’t an obstacle to being used by God. It is an opportunity to be used like never before. This truth leaps off the pages of Scripture again and again and again. Joseph suffered for years as a…
Raising Passionate Jesus Followers: Goals versus Values
No one can, without renouncing the world in the most literal sense, observe my method; and there are few, if any, that would entirely devote about twenty years of the prime of life in hopes to save the souls of their children, when they think they may be saved without so much ado; for that…
Faith: Leap Into Light!
Faith is believing what God says. Some people think faith is like taking a leap in the dark, that faith is blind. But the Bible says it’s the opposite. Away from God we are in the dark. That’s when we are blind, stumbling around. John Newton was a notorious slave trader—but coming to know Jesus changed…
Our Top Five Temptations
What are the top five self-reported temptations in America? According to a Barna survey: 1. Sixty percent of Americans are often or sometimes living in a state of noticeable and debilitating temptation to anxiety or worry, and the fear and dysfunction that usually come with it. The younger you are, the more probable it is that you are…