When someone sins against you, it feels so stingingly personal. And yet, there is a way to take yourself out of the equation and release them from the debt they “owe” you. Because you belong to God, He takes sins against you personally and the debt others owe is truly a debt to Him.
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When we miss our target, we can often sit down and give up altogether. But don’t fall for that trap! Here’s some encouragement and practical advice for making progress.
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Happy Anniversary! What’s the gift this vlog could give to YOU?
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With all the advice swirling around out there for goal setting in the New Year, here is my very best advice for you! 🎯
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“Peace on Earth”? Are you kidding? Has there ever been even a moment when this Earth was at peace? And yet, this is the declaration of the angels to the shepherds. What can they be talking about?
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Oftentimes we are so used to hearing the prophecies about Jesus’ birth that we lose touch with just how crazy they must’ve sounded when they were first spoken! But there’s beauty and awe in that craziness!
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The Christmas Story is so powerful and yet we can be so familiar with it that we often stop hearing the outrageous miracles within it.
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Are we trying to bear fruit on our own? Perhaps we have all the appearance of fruitfulness, but unless all the good things we are doing are birthed out of a place of true righteousness (righteousness received as a gift from God), all our effort is the fruitless action of self-righteousness.
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What are the four areas we need to watch that will either guard our joy or sabotage it?
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Some say that the Israelites could have journeyed to the Promised Land in eleven days. But how is that thinking setting our own faith journey up for failure?
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When I'm on a journey with the Lord, I want to ARRIVE! But He rarely seems as focused on arrival as I am!
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I routinely come across people who are confident that they are "good enough" to get into heaven and others who are confident that goodness doesn't matter. So how good is good enough?
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My life feels turned upside-down at times: nothing makes logical sense and there's no completion in the areas I'm waiting on God for. How can I know that God will let me see that completion I so long for?
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I've talked for the last couple of weeks about our need for knowing the love of God and how our stability and strength are effected by it. This week, let's look at a few other results of knowing we're loved!
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The enemy conveniently leaves out key information when he's tempting Jesus - and it's the same information we forget when we're tempted or hurting!
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Sometimes the simplest answer really is the best one. And though we may think it a platitude, there is valid reason that this simple sounding answer is life-changing. Until we know this answer deep in our hearts, our lives will be in constant battle for stability.
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When it comes to your relationship with God, is it your head or your heart that you should engage with?
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