Asking God: What Should My Prayer Look Like?
How do we put our requests before God? Do we make demands? Do we ask for help with what seems the impossible? What can we learn from the man with leprosy about how to pray?
Read moreHow do we put our requests before God? Do we make demands? Do we ask for help with what seems the impossible? What can we learn from the man with leprosy about how to pray?
Read moreWhat should our witness about Jesus look like? Maybe we should take a hint from the angel’s visit to the shepherds.
Read moreWhat happens when we doubt God? Does God give up on us? There’s some encouraging news in the story of Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist.
Read more“You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.” Isaiah 26:3, ESV What fun to get to care for two of our grandkids while their mom and dad went off to the hospital to welcome child number three. An exciting time—and an exhausting one. Two children normally quite active became even more so as they anxiously awaited the homecoming of their new[…]
Read more“Take off the graveclothes.” John 11:44, NIV Have you ever smelled something so raunchy it makes you gag? A skunk who’d let loose? Filthy gym clothes that had been stuffed in a locker for an entire semester? A dead animal? Your spouse? Well, hopefully not your spouse. Have you ever had to send your spouse out of the house because they simply reeked? I have. More than once. (Sorry, Larry,[…]
Read morePhysical fitness is important. But more important is our spiritual fitness. So, how about it? Are you ready to Put in the work to get spiritually fit?
Read moreWhat does it mean to live lives rooted and built up in Jesus? Let’s see what Paul has to say about it.
Read moreWhy does God tell us to meet together with other believers? How can it help others? How can it help us? What can happen if we don’t meet together?
Read more“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6, NIV “Lean not on your own understanding”—that’s a tough one. It’s easy to think we have it all together, that we know what we’re doing. But we don’t see the BIG picture that God sees, and that means we[…]
Read moreRemember to take time to be still and know that God is God. What I learned from my baby boy about focusing on God.
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