Have you ever gotten praise for something you didn’t do or didn’t help with? Maybe you received compliments for an event you were helping with at church, but you simply showed up on the day and didn’t help with any of the pre-work. Maybe you were the person that didn’t
A few years ago I experienced a marked moment where the Lord revealed something deep and very personal to me. Immediately, I experienced a radical shift in perspective that impacted the way I live my life. In my forty-six years of life, I have experienced great loss. To give you
Growing up, my three siblings and I were pretty different. Even so, there was one thing that never failed to bring us all together – the smell of my mom’s chocolate chip pancakes cooking on the griddle next to sizzling bacon on a Saturday morning. Within minutes of the first
If we remain in Christ, we will bear much fruit. If we do not remain in Christ, we will be “thrown into the fire and…burned” (John 15:6). Those are scary words. A few questions immediately pop into my head. What does it mean to remain in Christ? How do I
The Benefits of Godly Wisdom Have you ever had a moment when someone’s advice really made a difference in your life? What about a time you wished you had heeded a friend or mentor’s advice, and you didn’t? I think we’ve all been there at some point in our lives.
Most of us have probably held a sweet, little baby before – maybe our own children, or a friend’s newborn, or a tiny niece or nephew. And we probably wondered what this little baby might grow up to be like. Will he or she love to read? Or be the
Rightly Seeing God Through Praise I was speaking with some women a few days ago about praising God, and one of the things the Holy Spirit was teaching us was that praise brings us to the place where we see God for who He is. When we get to that
It’s not hard to see that we are living in days that look very different than they did even a few short years ago. There’s so much happening in the world that has left us with our share of questions, heaviness, tears, and confusion. And, to be real, we don’t
Work as Worship “Work is an act of worship.” This phrase has radically impacted the way I view all that I do – from the day to day chores around the home, paying the bills, and raising up my two children as a single mom. Serving God through worship isn’t
One of my teachers always says, “Christianity is practice.” This means the more you do what the Bible says, the more its truth begins to take hold and change your heart so that you can regularly live it out, especially when faced with challenges. The Apostle Peter here is