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 can make many plans, but the Lord’s purpose will prevail. PROVERBS 19:21
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding.
Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.' Whatever happens is to His good purpose and for His glory. I am not afraid.
Our work is to devote our own lives to pleasing God. It's that simple. We're to devote our efforts to learning to think as God thinks, to see ourselves and others through his eyes, to walk as he walke...
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...
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.
For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago (Ephesians 2:10).
Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind let each of you regard one another as more important than himself. PHILIPPIANS 2 : 3
Do my will, beloved. I drew you up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set your feet upon a rock.
Come away with me and be my wife. She gave a harsh laugh. If you want a wife, send for one by mail, or wait for the next wagon train to cross the mountains. He came toward her. I can give you a good l...
Can you see air you breathe? Can you see the force that moves the tides or changes the seasons or sends the birds to a winter haven? Her eyes welled. Can Rome with all its knowledge be so foolish? Oh...
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...
All the way back, she had imagined him gloating and taunting, rubbing her face in her own broken pride. Instead, he knelt before her and washed her dirty, blistered feet.
When she felt the tears coming up, building like a great hard pressure inside her, hot, so hot she thought they would burn, she swallowed them down deeper and deeper until they became a hard little st...
None of them, not even he, seemed to realize they weren't just physical beings, that God had left a mark upon them by the simple fact of his creation. They preferred their idols, tangible, possessing,...
Wherever you go, let Christ be your refuge. Put your hope in Him, and you won’t be disappointed by what life offers.
Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life.