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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Let’s cut to the point— In John 8, a woman was caught in the act of adultery, and her accusers put her in the streets to punish her: death by stoning. The crowd got rowdy and fully expected Jesus to side with them, but instead, something amazing and inhuman happened. Pause. I say inhuman because …
In 2015, I began a deconstruction project on myself. Most of the words below were written in 2016 when I really began to understand that I could not move forward in my life until I broke through the wall I had built to keep myself “safe.” This famous wall that everyone talks about is a …
Did you know that Mother Teresa said she felt like God only ever spoke to her one time, even though she devoted her whole life to spreading the love and teachings of Jesus? She wrote “dark letters” which described how she felt empty and like God was silent toward her. She struggled to understand this …