You can ask God for anything you want; you can dream; you can hope; you can believe he has your best life in mind, but the bottom line is that his plans are better and his dreams go higher than yours. So when you next talk to God and you totally trust the depths of [...]
Of all the things that cripple people from being all they can be, expectation is the worst. Expectation is very different to hope, because it usually sets a standard to be attained that is nigh impossible to reach--one that says that you must the brightest, the best, the shiniest at that thing you want to [...]
A few years ago, my daughter was at a ministry school where she was taught all sorts of valuable things. She sent a text message one afternoon that said the following: "They're blessing all the married couples' sex lives right now. Passing it on!" My first thought was: How did she know? My second thought [...]
I've been thinking a lot these days about obedience and how big of a part it plays in our relationship with God. In recent years, there has been what seems to be a downplay of the word, of the acts that imply mute submission to a supreme God when the reality of his love and [...]
Of all the things that cripple people from being all they can be, expectation is the worst. Expectation is very different to hope, because it usually sets a standard to be attained that is nigh impossible to reach--one that says that you must the brightest, the best, the shiniest at that thing you want to [...]
In everything you've gone through in the last few years, there's one thing that is profoundly true--God is with you. God is with you. Whether income was non-existent, or anguish hit, or business was shrinking, or health failed, or you couldn't do what you loved, he was with you. He's still in you and around [...]
Remember [your Creator]—before the silver cord is severed, and the golden bowl is broken; before the pitcher is shattered at the spring, and the wheel broken at the well, and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it (Ecc. 12:6). Words speak life or death, [...]
When the Bible talks about Jesus making a way for us, it's not talking about a path similar to the one a child makes by kicking his Legos off a thin bit of carpet to his bed. Nor is it talking about clearing the weeds to form a winding path and putting down some mulch [...]
Sin looks a lot different when you still believe in or love the sinner. You'll find yourself justifying or trying to understand the sin, vilifying the accusers, and highlighting the other good things about the sinner. So is sin really the most important focus ... or is it love and believing in someone's best yet [...]
Do you feel abandoned or betrayed? What do you do when your so-called friends desert you? Type A: You withdraw. “He wants to ask my sister to be the lead singer? He really just wants to spend the rest of his life with her! Forget the lot of them. I don’t need friends, anyway. I don’t [...]
