The chrysalis.
It’s the place of change for the butterfly, the rigid, constricting encumbrance that holds the caterpillar in while it becomes what God intends it to be.
A cage, if you will, but ...
Reread the title. Isn’t that how we feel about our lives on some days?
“Oh, woe is me!”
The toilet is stopped up again, we forgot to pay the lawn man, and we resign ourselves to making that ...
Young.
That’s a good one. I used to be young, but now, I accept that I’m old.
I used to be successful, but that’s in the past.
I used to play the piano before my fingers got stiff.
I was a ...
Adam. Friend of God. Exiled from the Garden of Eden.
Moses. Leader of God’s people. Banned from the Promised Land.
Judas. Member of Jesus’ inner circle. Betrayer.
However, that’s not how it ...
We are separate creatures.
Each of us, individual, able to think one thing and appear as another on the outside.
“Thank goodness,” some of you whisper. “I don’t want anyone to see what goes ...
Are you struggling?
Are you to your last thread on the rope, and you’re about to let go?
You’ve said your last nice thing, and you’ll snap on the next person who crosses you?
Whoa! That’s ...
Jim Koch and his wife, Lora, faced the ultimate diagnosis.
Cancer.
The Iowa couple had to face a heartbreaking choice. Lora needed surgery that would leave her body marred if she wished to ...
Your beautiful family, fractured by a divisive situation.
Your forever home, victim to a financial setback.
Your time with friends, taken by health and circumstance.
Even your attempts to rebuild ...
A map is nice sometimes.
Something to warn us of the construction zones, the potholes, the fallen tree across the road.
Or a phone call to let us know that our brother is angry that we missed ...
Every believer has those days when we need a power shot of Jesus.
We need reassurance that we are loved, that the message is still true, and that we stand on a firm rock.
Here are 3 promises that ...
What horrors have impacted your life?
Childhood traumas? Pets lost? Families broken?
What still affects you today and robs you of a productive relationship with God?
What causes the firm ...
Stress Level: TEN!!
We’re to our collar bones with worry!
Climate change! Supply chain interruptions! Did they say RECESSION!?! Arrrgh! How are we going to survive!?!
Deuteronomy 28:11-12 gives ...
Turmoil cuts our heart with knives of glass.
The core of who we are leaks from us onto those around us.
Call them tears, angry words, or acts of desperation, it’s obvious to those around us that ...
The chrysalis.
It’s the place of change for the butterfly, the rigid, constricting encumbrance that holds the caterpillar in while it becomes what God intends it to be.
A cage, if you will, but ...
Reread the title. Isn’t that how we feel about our lives on some days?
“Oh, woe is me!”
The toilet is stopped up again, we forgot to pay the lawn man, and we resign ourselves to making that ...
Young.
That’s a good one. I used to be young, but now, I accept that I’m old.
I used to be successful, but that’s in the past.
I used to play the piano before my fingers got stiff.
I was a ...
Adam. Friend of God. Exiled from the Garden of Eden.
Moses. Leader of God’s people. Banned from the Promised Land.
Judas. Member of Jesus’ inner circle. Betrayer.
However, that’s not how it ...
We are separate creatures.
Each of us, individual, able to think one thing and appear as another on the outside.
“Thank goodness,” some of you whisper. “I don’t want anyone to see what goes ...
Are you struggling?
Are you to your last thread on the rope, and you’re about to let go?
You’ve said your last nice thing, and you’ll snap on the next person who crosses you?
Whoa! That’s ...
Jim Koch and his wife, Lora, faced the ultimate diagnosis.
Cancer.
The Iowa couple had to face a heartbreaking choice. Lora needed surgery that would leave her body marred if she wished to ...
