I want to ask you to think about something: What do you require? Is there something you would name as a necessity? What I mean is, what is it that you have to have every day? This isn’t a joke (like “I have to have my Dr. Pepper”). In all seriousness, some people have to have blood pressure medicine. Others have ...

This article first appeared on The Christian Broadcasting Network | I have such a love for music that I can’t just turn on one album at a time— I literally shuffle all my songs every day and listen to my collection like a radio station. The only difference between my shuffle playlist and a real radio station is that all ...

I am thirty-one years older than my daughter. I recently told her, “The world you are living in is much different than the one I imagined for you.” But I don’t want her (or any of us) to underestimate faith. Because isn’t that what Paul tried to warn Timothy? He said, “But know this, that in the last days perilous ...

While I was praying recently, this phrase came up in my spirit: “Learn from the Sunflower.” I thought hmmm, so I looked up more information and was surprised to discover a couple of interesting facts. For starters, the sunflower doesn’t actually follow the sun from morning till night like I had always thought. Instead, it sets it’s leaves to receive the sun in the East ...

This article first appeared on The Christian Broadcasting Network | I grew up with a disorder called hypoglycemia. Basically, it was a problem with my pancreas and sugar intake and the major side effects I dealt with were nausea and weakness. It was constant so I simply learned to live with it. You can imagine however, my delight at the ...

This article first appeared on The Christian Broadcasting Network | “…and great grace was upon them all” (Acts 4:33b). I hope you can look back on seasons or situations in your life and say with me, “That was great grace.” In other words, when we should’ve been buried under the grief, or the pressure to make a hard decision, or ...

What happens when a person’s reckless living meets the reckless love of God? A.W. Tozer is quoted as saying something that makes me think of fathers. He said, “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing to us.” Obviously, my answer to this (as I already pointed out) is the word Father. That’s ...

Addressing racial injustices, I see two major steps. Racial profiling has to STOP. Pre-judging a person based on the color of their skin has to STOP. I hope to God I’m not addressing Christians here, but sadly these issues were seeded in our country and homes a long time ago and therefore some were raised with prejudices that have never ...

This article first appeared on The Inspired Woman Blog | Jesus gave us a command that had such power He immediately had to follow it with a warning. The command was: “…that you love one another” (John 15:17). Sounds simple enough, but it’s the most powerful instruction any of us could follow. It takes greater strength and self-discipline to love than it does to ...

“God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?” (Numbers 23:19). I’ve looked at this scripture many times before. But recently, I considered it and thought about all the other scriptures this ...

I want to keep it simple today and show you how to meditate on God’s Word. Instead of reading scripture for memorization, why not read it for saturation? What I mean is, really meditate on each word in the sentence by giving it added emphasis. Let me show you: “And we have such trust through Christ toward God” (2 Corinthians ...

Every word in scripture expresses the thoughts of God, while at the same time, paints a vivid picture to help us see things from His perspective. And for this reason, we should pay attention to God’s choice of words and the sequence in which they are laid out. For example, I’m intrigued by Peter’s inspired writings in his second letter. ...

This article first appeared on The Christian Broadcasting Network | When my husband and our family moved to the little town of Seminole, Texas (population 6,000) in 1999, we had no idea what all God had planned for us as pastors of a small church, but we decided early that God could do BIG things in small places. Over the ...

This article first appeared on The Inspired Woman Blog | Covid-19 caused a lot of uneasiness in our world. My parents are in their seventies, and I asked them if they had ever seen a quarantine like that, and of course they answered no, never. There were so many unprecedented things going on, it was hard to know what to ...

A woman walks into a party, already a bit nervous for no reason other than insecurity. Within a few seconds inside, she observes a small group whispering across the room. One glances her way and then turns back to the others with more whispers. She wants to leave. “They don’t like me. I knew this was a mistake to come…,” ...

There’s a story in the Bible of a man named Simeon who waited in faith for the promise from God to see the Messiah before he died. The scriptures don’t tell us much about Simeon’s journey of faith before this moment in the temple. But what we do know is he was a “righteous and devout man [cautiously and carefully observing ...