Perfectly planned. I had our move timed out to the second. Close on our house. Close on the new house. Move out. Move in. Painters in the new house. Cleaners in the old. Done. Perfect. But occasionally God lets us know he’s in control, and we’re not. We’re missing an IRS form, and the mortgage…
Today’s Pearls of Promise blog is provided by POP Creative Director Catherine Weiskopf. Catherine is the Co-author of If I Only Had…Wrapping Yourself in God’s Truth During Storms of Insecurity, the Pearls of Promise Devotional, and Faith Marker Journey. Catherine has also written three children’s math books. Catherine loves hearing stories of how God has intervened in…
Screech. Traveling north on IH 35, I heard the sound of a car losing control behind us. I craned my neck to see what was going on. Were we about to get hit? No, but we were only a split second ahead of a car that lost control, did a 360 in the middle lane,…
“One day, you twenty year-olds will be thirty and before you know it, you thirty year-olds will be forty, and you forty-year-olds will turn fifty, then the fifty year-olds will be sixty, and the sixty-year-olds seventy.” Seventy-three year-old Joyce Meyer was talking about the brevity of life and how fast time flies. Even though there…
“God isn’t interested in our skills. He just wants to know if we’re available.” Yesterday, we spent three hours listening to one of the wisest men I’ve ever met, Smokey John Reeves, and his words are still replaying in my mind. While spiritual gifts are important, we often times get too wrapped up in them,…