Our top two commandments are love God and love People That is a recurring theme I have been seeing for 2021. I think for most believers...

How often do we get motivated, encouraged, and do good on our healthy journey for weeks or months, only to lose steam and go back to old...

Psalm 116:7 Let my soul be at rest again, for the Lord has been good to me. Which is easier for you? Stop or Go? What if you are stopped...

2020 was a strange year. I think that is the one thing literally everyone on the planet can agree on. One of the many things that struck...

Due to my Indiana lazy dialect, I often have to think REAL hard so that when I say "idolatry" it doesn't sound like I am saying...

When I first starting writing our word for this month, I thought the word was "moderation." I wanted to know what God said about...

I am listening to Jesus and laying down my pride. I am currently neck deep in the 21 Day Sugar Fast. Of course since I am me and a...

Most of you know, my guy (I can't say little any more....he is 9 and a BEAST) has nonverbal autism. Affectionately known to many as "The...

"Word" Many of us like having a "word" for the year. A single word or even a phrase from the Lord just for us; it is part prophesy, part...

Do you believe in prayer? Do you believe God is always listening and knows our hearts? Do you believe God answers prayers? I am a...

A really good conversation about translations happened recently in a group I am in, and it made me want to check where my translations I...

You are going to fall short today. As a spouse As a coworker As a parent As a friend As a son/daughter As a volunteer Whatever role you...

ROM 3:23 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God ROM 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal...

Life is heavy. Your burdens are heavy. Carrying the burdens of others is heavy. A heavy load needs a firm foundation. There is a legend...

Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility consider one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely...

1 Kings 19 NLT Elijah Flees to Sinai 19 When Ahab got home, he told Jezebel everything Elijah had done, including the way he had killed...

[2Cr 5:16 NIV] So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no...

This is it. This is the time of year when the buzzwords “gratitude” and “thankful” are in every post and on every coffee mug. There is a...

I wrote this almost exactly one year ago to the day. I was preparing to leave for instructor training, and this was the struggle in my...

I love birthdays. My birthday is my day of the year when I let my spoiled rotten only child princess truly shine with reckless abandon. I...