Reckless Living Meets Reckless Love
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 [...]
Understanding Love & Hate
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 [...]
Remember, He Doesn’t Lie
"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 [...]
Saturation
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 [...]
If is the Key
I heard a minister tell a story about being asked if he believed in "once-saved-always-saved." He replied, "I do... If you want to be." With my understanding of scripture, I agreed with him. I wasn't raised [...]
Why You Can’t Believe Everything
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 [...]
Just Walk By Faith
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 [...]
Thankfulness & Gratitude
I was recently thinking about the words we use as Christians to refer to Jesus: we often call Him our "Lord" and "Savior." Interestingly, this is how He was announced by the angels when He was [...]
The Real Trick is Fear
If you’ve tried to rent a movie lately, or even scrolled through your TV guide to watch something, you’ve noticed the plethora of scary, frightful, even downright evil that has taken over the media industry. Personally, [...]
No More Leftovers
It's been said, "Faith comes by hearing, not by having heard." In other words, it's not what you remember or think you know that will increase faith in your life-- it's the fresh word from Heaven [...]
A Wide-Open Life
This article first appeared on The Christian Broadcasting Network | “Dear, dear Corinthians, I can’t tell you how much I long for you to enter this wide-open, spacious life. We didn’t fence you in. The smallness [...]
Find & Fix
After having some difficulties with my computer once, my husband suggested I get a software program to run systematic scans that would find and fix any problems or files that simply needed to be securely trashed. [...]
Keep Knocking
There's a difference between being a beggar and being a believer. And then there's also this thing called persistence. Jesus said, “Suppose you went to a friend’s house at midnight, wanting to borrow three loaves of [...]
No More Secrets
This article first appeared on The Christian Broadcasting Network | How many of us have been afraid of the dark before? Either as a child, or as an adult walking across a parking lot late at [...]
When Your Heart Smiles
Why do we change our screen covers? Have you ever thought about that? Whether it be on your phone or your computer desktop, many of us update and replace the images on a regular basis. I'm [...]
The Power of an Echo
Until recently I had never given much thought to the word echo. I knew what it meant --basically an echo is a sound heard again (a repetition if you would) of an original sound. In a [...]
God’s Measuring Stick
Who doesn't like to get gifts? I have occasionally been the person who has had a hard time receiving gifts, but that's not to say I don't like getting them. What I mean is, we often feel [...]
How Long Does God Punish Us?
This was a question I received recently. Without knowing anything else, the question alone broke my heart because I was reminded how I once felt when I believed the same thing. I was young in my [...]
