Tag: Week 1 // Friday

Refuge for the Day of Judgment

What emotions and thoughts come to mind when you think about God’s judgment? Maybe you are surrounded by immense suffering or the prosperity of the wicked, so your heart longs for God’s judgment to come upon the earth. Or maybe you are beaten down by your own sinfulness and fear

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Seeing Life Through God’s Lens

As I was reading our verses for today, praises welled up in my heart to our Rock and God, who is steadfast in who He is. Before the world at the beginning, He was the same. Throughout the Scriptures, He never changes. Even today, He is who He is.  Just

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Shine in the Un-Fine

Lately, when I open Instagram, I see an ad for one specific shirt, a sweatshirt with the phrase “Everything is fine” repeating in rainbow colors across the front. It’s as though saying the words over and over again will eventually make me believe it to be true. It’s something I’ve

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Fear Of Not Being In Control

From a young age, I have struggled with the fear of not being in control. I think the seed of this fear was planted in my heart when my parents divorced. Seeing what my mom went through as a single woman created in me a desire to want to control

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Steadfast and Abounding

Recently, I sat across from a friend who had just attended a funeral. We chatted and laughed a bit before I asked the dreaded question, “So, how are you really doing?” She sighed for a bit and then gave me the oddest answer that stuck with me, “I’m really sad,

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The SOAP Bible Study Method

At Love God Greatly, we believe that the Word of God is living and active. We believe the words of Scripture are powerful and effective and relevant for life in all times and all cultures. We also know that the Bible was written to specific audiences in specific cultures at

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Great Expectations

When was the last time your expectations were shattered? We all have expectations of how our lives should go. We prepare. We make sacrifices. We move forward with our plans. But even our best intentions can end with our world turned upside. Jesus realized they wanted to ask him about

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Do You Watch Your Mouth?

We all struggle with the tongue. Maybe you don’t use the really bad words, maybe you don’t even say any words that are unsavory, but you do struggle with your tongue. Words that are used to complain, gossip, slander, express anger, self-pity or annoyance are all ways in which we

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Learn to Remember

We value the experiences we have with loved ones and therefore cherish the memories. So we take pictures, we keep diaries, and we make videos because we don’t want to forget the people or experiences.    Years ago, my husband and I started a prayer journal. We would write all

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Hard Words From God

Studying through a minor prophet can be confusing because they don’t speak in a way that we are accustomed to. The book of Micah is comprised of 3 sermons, each one begins with the word “hear” (1:2; 3:1; 6:1) His first message is all about the sins that the people

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