I’ve said this many times but I am so glad my life was not one of the lives forever remembered on the pages of the Bible. When we read about the shortcomings of the Old Testament characters or the disciples’ failings, we have a tendency to look down on them. “Peter denied Christ three…
Do you start your day out by surrendering it to God? Each morning I pray the Lord will organize my day and order my steps. I want the Lord’s agenda, not mine and often times his agenda is pretty similar to the one I laid out, but not always. Sometimes at the end of…
This week in our “Un-Crowd” Bible study we began our discussion with an icebreaker. We had a list of “un” words and were asked to pick the one that best described us. I chose “unfinished” because that’s how I’ve felt lately. Unfinished laundry, unfinished organizing, unfinished writing, unfinished book marketing and last night unfinished cooking. …
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. (Col. 3:20) I wanted to share with you about this scripture and what it means to me. Pleasing the Lord is something I want to do most of the time. Actually, I desire to do it all the time, but I am flesh…
Do you have a difficult person in your life? Someone who gets under your skin every time you’re around them? Maybe that person lives under the same roof with you. The prophet Jeremiah had a cast of imperfect people around him but he was delivering an unpopular message to Israel: “Repent or your land will…