I keep thinking of all the people who cast despairing eyes toward the dark heavens and cry Why? And I imagine him. I imagine him listening. I picture his eyes misting and a pierced hand brushing away...
Next time you’re in the car, take a look at the stoplights. Use them to help you remember to live for God. On red, remember that Jesus’ blood takes away our sins. On yellow, be careful about what you...
If it is true that a picture paints a thousand words, then there was a Roman centurion who got a dictionary full. All he did was see Jesus suffer. He never heard him preach or saw him heal or followed...
We don’t need an Over the Rainbow god. We need the One who created rainbows!
To be saved by grace is to be saved by him—not by an idea, doctrine, creed, or church membership, but by Jesus himself, who will sweep into heaven anyone who so much as gives him the nod.
If today starts to get hectic, take five minutes to be alone with God. If your work gets interrupted, ask God for patience to deal with the interruption and for endurance to finish the task.
If you aren’t you, we don’t get you.
If you do not transform your pain, you will surely transmit it. —RICHARD ROHR
Money gone. Expectations dashed. Friends vanished. Who's left? God is.
Sweet Jesus, you did not forget me when I forgot you. Thank you for singing your song of grace into my life over and over again. Give me the wisdom to see your work in all circumstances. In your preci...
Imagine that . . . unworthy of the touch of a man, yet worthy of the touch of God.
In 1900 the average person living in the United States wanted seventy-two different things and considered eighteen of them essential. Today the average person wants five hundred things and considers o...
Then Jesus took the loaves of bread, thanked God for them, and gave them to the people … He did the same with the fish, giving as much as the people wanted. John 6:11
Olvídate de la grandeza; busca la pequeñez. Confía más; presume menos. Haz muchas peticiones y acepta todos los regalos. Acércate a Dios igual que un niño se acerca a su papito.
Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the one who hears it and not the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.
It does little good to make the trip and miss the journey!
It is foolish to harbor a grudge (Eccles. 7:9 TEV). An eye for an eye becomes a neck for a neck and a job for a job and a reputation for a reputation. When does it stop? It stops when one person imita...
Seek first God’s kingdom and what God wants. Then all your other needs will be met as well. So don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will have its own worries. Each day has enough trouble of it...
It may seem that the calamity sucked your life out to sea, but it hasn't. You still have your destiny.
It’s time to let God’s love cover all things in your life. All secrets. All hurts. All hours of evil, minutes of worry. The mornings you awoke in the bed of a stranger? His love will cover that. The y...
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