I ask for a word to live by every year and when I felt like my word was “deliver,” I didn’t understand it. I’d been delivered from my past—healed from childhood wounds, delivered from chronic sinful behavior. Why deliver? Why that word now? But then I turned up with some questionable bloodwork recently—a marker for…
I was reading in Matthew 17 the other day where tax collectors asked Peter if Jesus paid the temple tax. When Peter asked Jesus about it, Jesus basically said that He’s exempt because the tax is for God and God wouldn’t tax His own child. However so they would not offend anyone, Jesus chose to…
Remember that book, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret? It was about a girl wanting to know God and to have God help her with her life issues. I have found myself asking God for the same kind of help. Life has been filled with many difficult transitions. I won’t go into all the…
I was speaking with a national radio show host about Pearls of Promise yesterday who was considering doing a story about our ministry, but he needed a news hook. I thought, Is what we do newsworthy? Pearls of Promise is all about helping people heal emotionally through Christ’s strength, so I decided to look up statistics…
Any time we have a new adventure or journey to endure, God says to us, “Be strong and courageous.” In Joshua 1, God explained to Joshua why he needed to be both strong and courageous because Joshua would need to be physically and morally strong to lead the Israelites into the Promised Land. Joshua’s moral…