The marriage vows we are so familiar with are full of promises.
If we are rich? Of course we will be true to one another. We will gladly share that wealth, helping to spend it all! However, we also ...
What is God’s most precious gift?
Life. Our threescore and ten. To open our eyes in the morning and have the day to use as we please.
Visit the grocery store. Read the paper. Earn a living … or ...
Hike a mountain trail. Rocky road ice cream will develop a new meaning for you. A stone beneath every step. More obstructions than you can shake a stick at.
You will stumble, and there’s a good ...
Words change over time. We have all experienced that, sometimes stumbling over verbal gaffes that we don’t even understand. For example, the word “extension.” A hundred years ago, an extension ...
“Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually! Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles and the judgments he uttered.” — 1 Chronicles 16:11–12 (ESV)
Life ...
It’s time today to make a new list.
Let’s start by writing down every bad thing about your life.
Yes, every bad thing. Don’t omit a one. Long or short, keep writing until they are all on your ...
Everyone has them, those little keepsakes that clutter our desk drawers, or that we squirrel away in old shoe boxes. No one else sees them, and when we are gone, we know they will become nothing more ...
Losing a close friend cuts deep. It leaves a silence in your life that words can't fill and a space in your heart that only God can touch. When grief hits, questions flood in—Why now? Why them? Why ...
Few things stand the test of time. Stone castles built to withstand the onslaught of war now hunker in the European countryside, their facades crumbling against the ravages of time. The Colossus of ...
Where do you feel undone?
What’s lacking in your life?
That college degree that you started and never finished?
A romance that you hoped would bring you a spouse?
Or a child you could never ...
We must allow the Spirit of God to bless us.
Isaiah 44:3-4 in the NIV tells us:
For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground;
I will pour out my Spirit on your ...
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” — 2 Corinthians 5:17 (ESV)
Let's explore what it means to become a new creation in ...
We wear jackets in the fall and coats when the wind starts to blow. However, what about during the worst of the winter storms?
During a blizzard, we don our PARKA. It is longer, heavier, and gives ...
