Love is not arrogant ~ 1 Corinthians 13:4 Love is selfless; however, it is so easy to become puffed up and arrogant. Think about it. Sometimes we try to "one-up" each other in relationships. Your spouse or friend shares an experience with you, and then you have to share an experience you've had that [...]
Consider it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. ~James 1:2 Trials are very difficult for me to grasp. I guess it is because I've always believed the Christian life would be full of joy. But the longer I [...]
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. ~Philippians 1:6 Philippians has been a favorite book of so many throughout the years. It is a letter Paul wrote to a church he loved deeply. They partnered [...]
Have you ever looked at Scripture and been amazed as the words jumped off the page and their meaning touched you in a very special way? That's what happened last night as I read through Psalm 133. It is a very interesting Psalm comprised of 3 verses and as David wrote them they focused [...]
Help! Well.....it's the day after Christmas! Gifts were unwrapped, smiles all around, fake reactions to unwanted conversations, kids opening 5,000 piece lego sets, rising blood pressure rears its head over running kids and gift wrapping paper being thrown in 352 directions. Twelve coversations going on at one time and none of them discernable. Now it's [...]
Don’t you understand that I have anxiety?!? You have to stop making things worse for me! I’m nervous…I’m shaking inside…my skin is crawling…my world as I know it is over…my life is going to end. No one understands me and everyone thinks I’m simply crazy. I’ll never pass this test. I only make mistakes. [...]
Crisis happens and people are always balancing times of crisis and times of normalcy. Where do people go when they’re in crisis? Oftentimes to the corner of a room, lie down in a fetal position, and beg God to let them die. Seriously. “God...let me go to sleep and never wake up!” Times of [...]
Regret is when you wake up the day after Thanksgiving and realize that you don’t own a pair of those pants your grandfather used to wear. You know...the ones that tend to stretch when you attempt to fasten them and begin to struggle as the button gets closer to the buttonhole. And you wonder [...]
Around 11:30 am on Sunday morning, November 5th, the unimaginable happened in Sutherland Springs, Texas. Evil entered a church and began indiscriminately shooting people. All seemed normal. All were safe. Those who were in the church that morning woke up like we did, got dressed like we did, ate breakfast like we did, got [...]
Why do we hurt? We hurt because God created us in His image and we experience emotions. Emotional hurt deeply interferes with normalcy in our lives and comes in several different forms. People either intentionally do things that hurt us or unintentionally do things that hurt us. Either way, hurt is a part of [...]