Holiday stress is a dark cloud threatening to steal our joy during this busy time of year. Expectations can overwhelm us. Trying to please everyone weighs us down. Our own plans and preconceived ideas clash with reality. We succumb to stress, anxiety, and depression. Wouldn’t it be nice to live protected from all this stress? There is a place where we can stay while carrying out all of our duties. It is sitting at the feet of Jesus. He doesn’t want…
Allowing default requires no effort on our part. Choice requires thought and purpose. Choose to allow Christ to live through you. Don’t let your default setting, your old nature, rule your life. It may lead you away from your savior. When we choose not to choose our choice is made by default. As believers, our natural self is constantly warring against the life of God in our spirit. If we make no choice – we choose. Natural self by default wins….
Do you remember my sharing with you more than a year ago about someone I care deeply about? To refresh your memory or if you didn’t see the post I will explain. I hadn’t seen this person in a few months. He had looked fairly healthy and clean. Then the end of July I saw him again and knew he was back on drugs. He looked underweight, hollowed-eyed, and jittery. It shook me to the core. Later that evening as…
Are we religious reformers? Trying to make ourselves better. The Bible says we must be kind loving, forgiving, etc. So we determine to get it right. Grabbing our emotions with a concentrated effort we attempt to remake ourselves. Martin Luther knew salvation was by faith and not be anything we could do. And spiritual growth was by faith not by natural efforts. Promises are followed by a slip-up. We tell ourselves it wasn’t too terrible, and we’ll do better tomorrow….
Water baptism is something many churchgoers know about. However, do we really know what it signifies? Let’s look at the Bible to see what it has to tell us about this event. Let’s start with Jesus. He was baptized by John the Baptist. When John protested to Jesus saying that he needed to baptized by him, Jesus insisted on John baptizing him. We can read about that in Matthew chapter 3, Mark chapter 1, Luke chapter 3, and John chapter…
In this dismal valley shrouded by a dark cloud, I walk. What happened to my glorious walk in light and joy? I understand there will be dark, trying times. The refining process. It is there where I must totally lean on you, O Lord, and even let you carry me for it is too dark for me to see. I know that mentally, but… It is one of those times now. The way is unknown to me. I’ve not been…
Bible truths that can bring you what you need for your life, transforming it into a life marked by peace, mental health, and joy. 2 Peter 1:3 “as his divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature…” All we…
I would like to share with you the importance of the Bible, the scriptures, Bible study. How important it is to study it, to search it for wisdom, to feed our souls. It is complete. Lacking nothing. God has provided all we need for life and godliness. If I need wisdom or advice for any area of my life I can find what I need in the scriptures. It is truth. It is reliable. For relationships, family, children, anxiety, addictions,…
Anxiety has no place in the mind of children. They totally trust the adults in their lives to provide for all their needs. As we grow up, we begin to be responsible for more of the areas of our lives and eventually responsible for others too. In the process, we get acquainted with anxiety. According to the dictionary, anxiety is distress or uneasiness of mind caused by fear of danger or misfortune. A dark cloud that prevents sunshine. That brings…
“Teach me Your way, O Lord, I will walk in Your truth; Unite my heart to fear Your name.” Psalm 86:11 Teach me Your way, O Lord. Jesus said that He was the way, the truth, and the life. His way is the truth. Godly advice. He is the expert of all experts. How many different experts are there offering all kinds of advice? Do they offer godly advice? There are books, magazines, google search, teachers, those who claim to…
