Courage is not something we can manufacture by our own efforts. But when we surrender wholeheartedly to God, he gives us the courage to face whatever comes. He gives us the words to speak when we are...
You're a bird who's been in a cage all your life, and suddenly all the walls are gone, and you're in the wide open. You're so afraid you're looking for any way back into the cage again. He saw the emo...
You said go to her, and I let pride stand in my way. You said she needed me, and I didn't believe. You said love her, and I thought it would be easy.
You can make many plans, but the Lord’s purpose will prevail.
You can make many plans, but the Lord’s purpose will prevail. PROVERBS 19:21
What do you want of God, Roman? It was an imperious question from so small a boy, and was said with a curious blend of humility and demand. I’ll know when I face him. Perhaps the answers you seek can’...
We were all created incomplete and will find no rest until we satisfy the deepest hunger and thirst within us. You’ve tried to satisfy it in your own way. I see that in your eyes, too, as I’ve seen it...
Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.
The veil had been wisp-thin between life and death. All his strength hadn't been enough to break free, but one soft word from Christ, and he was alive again.
She only had this moment, and she must fulfill it worthily. Of what use was it to allow herself regret and grief, to ponder endlessly what she might have done differently?
One person standing on the Rock can throw a lifeline to others drowning in the sea. He
Jim looked into her tear-washed eyes and saw her anguish. For a moment it was as though he shared a measure of the bitter brew—and felt poisoned. She smiled sadly. Everything was done properly. The ri...
Jesus has given me eternal life in Him. Let them take my life here, but God holds me in the palm of His hand and no one can take Him from me.
Jesus had been crucified years before her birth, but in John, as in her father, she saw the Lord. In John’s dear face she found infinite compassion, love, the glow of fierce conviction, the strength o...
How can we be witnesses of the one true God if we hold the truth as our own possession? God meant his truth for the world.
Concerns buzzed like flies in her head, and she swatted them with prayers.
But now, thus says the LORD, your Creator, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine! ISAIAH 43 : 1
As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. He was the strongest-minded man Joseph had ever met. A Man like Noah. A Man like the Shepherd-king Da...
Anything less than your best dishonors God
And the answers had always come down to trusting God, obeying Him, accepting His will, knowing there was a purpose in what was happening even if they couldn’t see it. But sometimes the pain seemed unb...