Psalm 22:1

Yesterday I wrote a devotion for Proverbs 31 Ministries. In light of all that happened in Texas this past Sunday, I’m thinking maybe you might need this encouragement too. I had to go back and read the words I wrote to remind myself of the truth of 2 Corinthians 4:18. Yep, sometimes we need to preach to ourselves. Read more……

I sat on the floor playing a card game with my young son. It was shaping up to be one of the best summers ever. Steven was savoring every minute of the long hot days, our Golden Retriever, Ginger, had delivered seven adorable puppies, and after years of negative pregnancy tests and doctor visits, I had a new life growing in my womb.…

To Lament means to mourn or grieve something that has been lost. In the Bible, the book of Lamentations was written because of the deportation and exile of the…

I sat on the floor playing a card game with my young son. It was shaping up to be one of the best summers ever. Steven was savoring every minute of the long hot days, our Golden Retriever, Ginger, had delivered seven adorable puppies, and after years of negative pregnancy tests and doctor visits, I had a new life growing in my womb.…

When we experience shattered dreams, broken relationships, tragic losses, or unfulfilled longings, it can be difficult to feel God’s presence, to see His hand, and to hear His voice. Glory moments cease when we close our eyes in pain and tune out God in anger. I know that’s what happened to me.That doesn’t mean that God isn’t there. It only means that the sadness in our own hearts has drawn the shades and locked the doors.…

In a recent article published in the Tallahassee Democrat, tagged “for amusement purpose only,” Mark Hinson told a story that happened to him when he was seventeen years old. While he was driving ……

“So we fix our eyes not on what is seen but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal” (2 Corinthians 4:18). As you live and move and have your being in Christ, at some point, difficult days will come. We live in a fallen world, and suffering is simply a part of it. Read more……

Do the Psalms tell us about Jesus? Are these verses about Christ? Psalm 22 1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? … 16 They have pierced my hands and feet. Psalms 118 22 The stone the builders……

In the story of the binding of Isaac, is there a hint of the suffering God’s people would endure in the years ahead?…

If you’ve known rejection, you’ll appreciate this. If you’ve felt abandoned, discarded by family and friends, you may understand this: Mark 15 34 At three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachdthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”)...…