Luke 12:6-7

It was several years ago that I heard a statement that I can never seem to get out of my head and my heart (not that I want to!). My husband preached a sermon on compassion and had given every fam……

I was walking my dog the other day through our neighborhood park, allowing him to run around and sniff every blade of grass for evidence of other animals. My eyes were on my feet, which is a common occurrence so that I don’t trip as often! My mind, however, was consumed with all the negative news of…

You just have to laugh. It’s times like these I’m so grateful that God cares about our lives. The big decisions, the heartbreaks, the joys and the comedy of errors.…

The other morning I was feeling burdened by different things. So when the girls were off to school, I sat down for a while, and wrote all my……

Memorizing scripture is critical to success as a believer. The Word tells us to meditate on the Word day and night (Joshua 1:8). But in a busy world, it’s easy to do quite the opposite. With so many outside voices, our thought lives can quickly drift to the series we are binging on Netflix, the to-dos of the day, or replaying the last conversation we had. A few weeks ago, I got stuck in my head over a conversation I had had. During the conversation, a friend had said something about me that she…

I’m so quick to forget my identity. When I say something that I’m not proud of, when I react with stress and anxiety instead of with peace, and when I make quick judgements instead of extending grace, it’s because I’m forgetting who God says I am. Instead of acting out of the identity God has given me, I’m acting out of my “old self.” (Romans 6:5-7) Sometimes, I think we need to pray and declare God’s truths for our identity over ourselves. I heard this analogy recently that as followers of Jesu…

If you—like me—are weary today, this post is for you. Weariness is not a new phenomenon. From the day God told Adam that he would toil by the “sweat of his brow” (Gen. 3:18–19), we humans have battled exhaustion. But we are not without hope. We can look to the Word of God and find encouragement.…

I preached a sermon recently as part of a team preaching through 1 Peter. The second point of that sermon was, “Life is Pain.” That’s just a fact. Life is pain. Peter jumps with both feet directly into that reality. Jesus modeled a life of prayer for us. The apostle Paul directs us to “pray……

When we pray specifically we open our heart and spirit humbly to God. We place our complete trust in Him and wait on His answer. There are 4 ways we can approach specific prayer and make our requests known.…