“..Addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart..” -Ephesians 5:19 It was my very last semester of college when I realized I may have chosen the wrong major. A freshman girl in one of my public speaking classes was excitedly telling us about …
You thought this whole journey of life was only to grow and heal? Beloved, human life is one drop of rain… When God asked Noah to build a boat in the middle of the desert, we now know the purpose was to preserve him and his family during the great flood, but think of Noah’s life during …
“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 …
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 …
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 …
“Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer.” – Romans 12:12 Sometimes I feel mentally and emotionally trapped in between worlds and unable to clear my mind. In terms of writing, it’s called “writer’s block,” however, this experience of feeling stagnate happens to everyone from time to time. As a writer, in order …
Most of us have heard the phrase, “You’re not afraid of failure, you’re afraid of success,” but there’s something that can happen to us at the midpoint that we don’t talk about often. One would conclude that if results are happening, success is inevitably right around the bend; however, “if this, then that” thinking can …