I have always struggled with my tongue. From arguing to sarcasm to sharp, cutting words. I have memorized and meditated on verses about the tongue and our words. I have highlighted all the Bible verses I can find about it in blinding neon yellow! I have even hung them as warning signs around my home,Continue reading “Flashback Friday – When Your House is on Fire”
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Does God Hear Us When We Pray?
“Please listen to me, God! I need your help!” Many of us have cried out something similar to this in a time of distress or uncertainty. We can relate to king David when he prayed, “Give ear to my words, O LORD; consider my groaning. Give attention to the sound of my cry, my KingContinue reading “Does God Hear Us When We Pray?”
Flashback Friday – The God Who Sees Me
There she sat alone by the water. Given to a man, by no choice of her own, only to be used as part of a selfish plan. She received no protection or provision that normally comes from a union like this. She wasn’t loved. She wasn’t cherished. She wasn’t cared for. She was despised. Sure,Continue reading “Flashback Friday – The God Who Sees Me”
Flashback Friday – Tilling the Garden of Your Marriage
Springtime means gardens for many people. While my husband and I have tried our hand at vegetable gardens before, it had been a few years and we are still novices! The big difference between this year and times prior was that we had never had to till the ground ourselves! But how hard could itContinue reading “Flashback Friday – Tilling the Garden of Your Marriage”
To Be Fully Known and Fully Loved
“Deep down, our root desire is really about longing for the experience of real love, that somebody would know us totally and at the same time love us completely.” – Jared C. Wilson
Flashback Friday – Drowning in the Sea of Hopelessness
Hopeless – “having no expectation of good or success, not susceptible to remedy or cure, and incapable of redemption or improvement” (Merriam-Webster). We feel it as despair or that dark hole of existence we think we will never be able to climb out of. As of late, it seems to be a common theme forContinue reading “Flashback Friday – Drowning in the Sea of Hopelessness”
The Attributes of God (Part 7): Love
“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, . . . that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filledContinue reading “The Attributes of God (Part 7): Love”
Do You Do Well to be Angry?
So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” And the people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them. The word reachedContinue reading “Do You Do Well to be Angry?”
Flashback Friday – The Devoted Things
Like Gollum and his ring, we try to hold on to things that are supposed to be devoted to destruction as if they were treasures. We foolishly think we can manage them, or compartmentalize them, or even use them for good, but in the end they will control us.
Renounce Your Wish, Gain Your Soul
What would you give up in order to gain your life? In the movie Wonder Woman 1984, Diana (aka Wonder Woman) makes a wish on an ancient artifact, the Dreamstone, which is said to grant the holder whatever they desire. Diana’s wish is to have her old flame, Steve, brought back to her from theContinue reading “Renounce Your Wish, Gain Your Soul”
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