Gratitude gets us through the hard stuff...Gratitude always leaves us looking at God and away from dread.
God speaks all languages—including yours. What language is God speaking to you?
God saw your entire life from beginning to end, birth to hearse, and in spite of what he saw, he still dreams of having you by his side. Even with your faults and failures. Despite your muddles and mi...
Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.
Find something you like to do, and do it so well that people pay you to do it.
Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. JOSHUA 1:8...
DAY 12 God shows his great love for us in this way: Christ died for us while we were still sinners. ROMANS 5:8 NCV Can anything make me stop loving you? God asks. Watch me speak your language, sleep o...
Cuando invitamos a Dios a nuestro mundo, él entra. Nos ofrece una multitud de regalos: gozo, paciencia, fortaleza. Las ansiedades llegan, pero no se quedan. Los temores se asoman, pero luego se van. L...
Children are like wet cement. What is modeled for them imprints their character. —Max
Celebrate God’s goodness. Rejoice in the Lord always (v. 4). Ask God for help. Let your requests be made known to God (v. 6). Leave your concerns with him. With thanksgiving . . . (v. 6). Meditate on...
Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?
But here the correlation with Beauty and the Beast ends. In the fable, the beauty kisses the beast. In the Bible, the beauty does much more. He becomes the beast so the beast can become the beauty. Je...
But God will use this mess for good. In the meantime don’t be foolish or naive. But don’t despair either. With God’s help you will get through this.
Bugs bug people, but they can kill sheep. Flies, mosquitoes, and gnats can turn the summer into a time of torture for the livestock. Consider nose flies, for example. If they succeed in depositing the...
Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you this day without a redeemer. —RUTH 4:14 ESV
Anxiety splits our energy between today’s priorities and tomorrow’s problems. Part of our mind is on the now; the rest is on the not yet. The result is half-minded living.
A stronghold is a false premise that denies God’s promise. It sets itself up against the knowledge of God (v. 5 NIV). It seeks to eclipse our discovery of God. It attempts to magnify the problem and m...
A person is worth something simply because he is a person.
8But God shows his great love for us in this way: Christ died for us while we were still sinners.
Prayer lets God do what he does best. Take a pebble & kill a Goliath. Take the common, make it spectacular! Pray & see what He can do.