"For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly." Psalm 84:11
Whatever makes you happy, right? . . . Wrong. Think about what that statement is really saying. Should happiness be our priority in life? What if my happiness infringes upon someone else's rights? Or, what if the thing that makes me happy is contrary to God's Word? . . . What then? Photo by Peter …
Many of us have heard it. Somebody is be going through a really difficult situation and a well-intentioned friend may say something like, "I'm really sorry, but, you know, God will never give you more than you can handle". Is that really true? Will God actually never give us more than we can handle? Some …
What comes to mind when you think of Christianity? Maybe you think of rules. You may even think of the word hypocrite, or boring, or stifled. Do you long for more, though? Photo by Nikko Tan on Pexels.com "More of what?" you may ask. Christianity. Do you long to see it in it's fullness, the …
Have you ever felt you were doing really well at something, only to get a little too confident and fall? Sometimes it's in those moments that we learn to get back up and keep trying, but maybe that fall had a lasting impact on your life. I'm reminded of the fall of mankind. God created …
And 2018 is coming to a close. It can be a rather odd feeling. It's not that I feel a huge change from New Year's Eve to New Year's Day. Maybe it's partially the feeling of leaving yet another year of my life behind, because 2018 will be memories, at midnight. Photo by Kaboompics .com …
What is it about walking on a shoreline? Wind brushing through your hair and waves foaming on the sand, it's almost thrilling! Not to mention a breath of fresh sea air. When I leave the ocean, I take some of it with me. No, really! Sand . . . it's one of those things that …
Worry . . . It seems to be a built-in feature that every person has. The worries creep in, sometimes subtly and other times quite blatantly, but they all have the same effect. Worry binds us. For those of us who are children of God, to worry is to take our focus off of Him …
