What is your image of angels? Many of us would like to believe they have sweet faces and gentle spirits but the Bible really doesn’t paint angels in that way. When angels, in their natural form, visited humans, many times they opened up conversation with the words, “Do not be afraid.” In Matthew 1:12 it…
I was at a dinner to raise money for an annual Christmas event to help the homeless. The leader of the outreach, Susie Jennings, flashed a photo of a man with kind eyes on the screen. She said, “This man showed up at one of the homeless shelters one day. I had never seen him…
Life is ever changing, isn’t it? I now have a new routine every morning and I cannot leave the house before doing it. Because our house is on the market, I pick up everything on the countertops, store away any paper clutter and vacuum and mop all floors, something I used to do a couple…
Four decades. That’s a long time but it doesn’t seem that long ago that I walked the halls at high school. In four decades, twenty-four of our classmates from a class of 420 died and all the survivors I spoke with were in the middle of, or had been through some kind of tragedy. What…
Life is a battle. If you haven’t figured this out then you haven’t lived long enough. Sickness. Death. Disappointment. Rejection. Tragedy. Our greatest enemies happen in and around us. So how do we fight the good fight? How do we find victory in the darkest of days? Here are three ways to consider. 1. Fight…