I want to encourage you today to believe the best of every person. You will have opportunity to see the faults in others and therefore, it’s inevitable that you will be disappointed in the actions (or inaction) of people. This is especially true when it’s family or someone you’ve developed a close relationship with, but… Never set your eyes on ...

This article first appeared on The Inspired Woman Blog | Like many of you, I have lots of “favorite” scriptures– not to sound cliche. There’s the one that changed everything in my life (and unknowingly thrust me into the ministry as an author and speaker), then there’s those powerful “ka-bam” scriptures that remind you God is on His throne and ...

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 ...