I just couldn’t understand why God wasn’t there for me when in my heart I knew He was supposed to be.
We need to understand the teachings of Scripture, the depth of God’s love, the call to tell others of God’s grace, hope, and forgiveness.
By understanding God’s sovereignty—His absolute control over everything—we can live our lives in the utter security of trusting Him.
The fact is, God always answers our prayers. He just doesn’t necessarily answer them the way we expect them.
Evening. My Aunt Lena brought one of her famous peach pies.
Now, when I read back through my journals of those rocky times, I wonder why my family didn’t just put me in a strait- jacket and check me into someplace called Sunnydale or Happy Hills. Somewhere in...
The best we can do is thank God for the gift of each new day then live it to the fullest.
Kay Arthur put it this way: If we do not know our God and His ways, our prayer lives will be impotent and ineffective.2
John Bunyan once said, In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
He continued. Most of the time when we go to God, it’s because we want something. If we get what we want, we turn and walk off, satisfied. If we don’t get what we want, we get frustrated; we kick the...
Yes, God could have created robotrons, automatically wired to be perfect, make no mistakes, and readily equipped to be in a relationship with Him. But that would never do. God wanted us to want that r...
Through the course of my life, I’ve attended a lot of different churches. From time to time I would hear murmurings in some of those congregations, something along the lines of, I’m just not being fed...
You make the call: Abide with Jesus and get to know Him—or go your own way without Him and get toasted. Which will it be? The Lord also gives us a beautiful promise in the next couple of verses of tha...
To equate church attendance with being spiritual.
Surrendering to Christ means stepping aside and giving Him the pilot’s seat—not the other way around.
One of the best books I’ve read in years is Second Calling: Finding Passion and Purpose for the Rest of Your Life. Author Dale Hanson Bourke addresses this matter of our hectic lifestyles: If I turn u...
If He is the vine and we are the branches, the only way we’ll survive is for us to be connected to Him: to dwell with Him or to remain in a relationship with Him. Otherwise we shrivel up like those us...
In Blue Like Jazz author Donald Miller addresses this subject from a startling perspective. I believe the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting...
Life without prayer is like watching TV on an ancient twelve-inch black-and-white TV set. The picture is snowy and distorted, and no matter how much aluminum foil you wrap around those rabbit ears, yo...
Look at what Colossians 1:16-17 has to say on this attribute of God’s character. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or...
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