“No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.” -Hebrews 12:11 When we say to God, “I’m ready,” what we’re really saying is, “I’m worth more than this.” Asking God to change our lives often begins …
Imagine for a moment that you are sitting in an empty theater in the dark, watching the movie of your life, and Jesus comes into the theater and sits down beside you… He asks, “What are you watching? “My life,” you reply. Jesus says, “You know, there are other movies that you can watch if …
Let’s be real for a moment. It took a global pandemic to shake up our lives so much, that for the first time in our culture, people are finally opening up about their struggles without any shame, and it’s a beautiful thing! We need to unite and use this shift to dig deep into generational …
When I was 8 years old, my family was downtown browsing the shops one Saturday afternoon, when I said to my dad, “I have to go to the bathroom… do you know where I can go?” He looked around, pointed to a nearby restaurant and said, “Go in there and ask if you can use …
God never speaks about satan in the Bible as being powerless here on Earth, nor does He minimize the capacity for evil to grip our lives. In fact, God refers to satan as the “prince of the world.” That’s a grand title, and for a reason. While in Heaven, the enemy is nothing more than …
Dear Christian: I know you because you are me. I recognized you the moment our hands touched in peace and I felt the same scars on your fingertips as mine… from setting the same fires and trying to escape the same hell. When our eyes meet, identical images play between us like a film in …
There is an ongoing conversation about the heart vs. the mind, and for a good reason. Let’s discuss this by comparing two Bible scriptures, and looking at how both are true and equally important in our walk with God. JEREMIAH: 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? 10 I …
In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. Then God made a He and a She to live together in the world that was created for them. He was made from the dust, and She was then made from the bones of Him. The design was for Her to be His perfect, complimentary …
Do you feel that? That earthquake deep inside your soul… It rattles your ribcage and inflates your lungs. It’s electricity… it shocks your heart into a knowing, into a clarity, into a new day. That moment when you can feel each atom of your body becoming… Becoming a galaxy, a wave of energy, a beat… …
Have you ever looked into the eyes of someone else and saw your own reflection? Perhaps God designed us like this for a purpose. Oftentimes, we’re so fixated on perceiving with our earthly eyes and ears, that it can be a challenge to see through a person’s outer shell to the soul inside. If we …
“There’s nothing more precious in this world than the feeling of being wanted.” -Diana Dors Faith is not a thing we find along the shore line one day, somewhere among the broken shells and pieces of glass, to pick up and put in our pockets as if we have discovered some treasure floating in the …
A beautiful blessing that is given to all of us from our Creator is the power to be like Him in certain ways. I believe this was designed to help us understand and connect with Him, and to bring Him into our world through our own acts. Throughout the Bible, we read countless stories about …