When you stay focused on your purpose, not your problem, you can be happy even when life seems to be falling apart.Paul was an old man when he was in prison in Rome. He was a long way from home.
Fresh starts and new beginnings are important to us. We try to make a good first impression. When we begin a new job, initiate a new project, or kick-off a new school year, we want to get off to a
Sometimes we have to dig around the dirt in order to plant something new, beautiful and well-rooted. This post is the first of two parts of a teaching on healing the past. Before you go forward, stop and pray. Ask
And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him(Colossians 3:17). You invest more than one-third of your life at work. You
Many parts of the country have been hit by heavy snow fall. It started out as a positive: the beauty it gave to the earth with robes of righteousness, teaching the kids how to make snow angels, then came the
You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. You watched me as I was being
“The most important thing is that I complete my mission, the work that the Lord Jesus gave me — to tell people the Good News about God’s grace.” (Acts 20:24b NCV) God gave you a mission, and it’s a mission
“Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous — how well I know it” (Psalm 139:14 NLT, second edition).When people are hurting, they need simple truth, not simplistic truth. It’s not enough to tell someone to
“When you thank God for something after it happens, that’s called gratitude. When you thank God for something before it happens, that’s called faith.” — Rick Warren Read More »
I walked onto the beach and stood in awe. It wasn’t the whitecapped waves that captured my attention or the small flock of pelicans that flew Read More »