Occupied with something else.
Him (Deut. 11:2 TEV). Rather than ask God to change your circumstances, ask him to use your circumstances to change you. Life is a required course. Might as well do your best to pass it. God is at wor...
Failures are not fatal. It’s not that he loves what you did, but he loves who you are. You are his. The One who has the right to condemn you provided the way to acquit you. You make mistakes. God does...
You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsma...
Who has more reason to worship than the astronomer who has seen the stars? Than the surgeon who has held a heart? Than the oceanographer who has pondered the depths?
Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you.Eli to Punchinello (p. 25)
When God gives an assignment, he also gives the skill. Study your skills, then, to reveal your assignment.
We rest in him, find our nourishment in him. His roof of grace protects us from storms of guilt. His walls of providence secure us from destructive winds. His fireplace warms us during the lonely wint...
We have been taught that the Christian life is a life of peace, and when we don't have peace, we assume the problem lies within us.
Un problema por el que no has orado es como una espina enterrada. Se encona y se infecta: primero el dedo, luego la mano, después el brazo entero. Mejor es ir directo a la persona que tiene las pinzas...
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.
Though we may not be able to see His purpose or His plan, the Lord of heaven is on His throne and in firm control of the universe and our lives.
This verse is a call, not to a feeling, but to a decision and a deeply rooted confidence that God exists, that he is in control, and that he is good.
This much is sure: contagious calm will happen to the degree that we turn to him.
The stone was moved—not for Jesus—but for the women; not so Jesus could come out, but so the women could see in!
The people who make a difference
The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer someone else up.
The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life. [ Job 33:4 NIV
Sustaining grace promises not the absence of struggle but the presence of God.
Out of the lions' den for Daniel, the prison for Peter, the whale's belly for Jonah, Goliath's shadow for David the storm for the disciples, disease for the lepers, doubt for Thomas, the grave for Laz...