I hurt someone that I love yesterday. I was bothered that they just kept calling me–day after day. I was angry that they just won’t change their life and live in the way that I think they should be living. Yesterday, they were persistent and, after ignoring the first three calls, I picked up the …
In Celebrate Recovery, I’m working through the steps. I am on step 4. Principle 4: Openly examine and confess my faults to myself, to God, and to someone I trust. Happy are the pure in heart. Matthew 5:8 Step 4: We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Let us examine our …
There is an ongoing spiritual battle as mentioned in Ephesians 6:10-20 and 1 Peter 5:8, where Satan would love to destroy our lives, destroy our testimonies and destroy our intimacy with Christ. I believe once a person is truly saved, we have the powerful Holy Spirit to convict us of sin, comfort us, and empower us …
Victory and Freedom, two words that certainly go together. The Christian should know these words well because our Savior won our freedom when He was victorious over death. But why don’t I, and many brothers and sisters I know, live life in that freedom and the victory He has won us? I think we are …
Yesterday was Resurrection Day! My pastor told us to keep two words in our minds as he talked of our Savior…VICTORY and FREEDOM (the new F-word). We spent time in the passage John 9 where Jesus heals the man born blind. There were all kinds of commotion over this healing. Most of the commotion came …
My girls stood over my bed the other morning whispering “Mom…hey mom…wake up.” Through blurred vision and very dry mouth, I blinked myself to reality. They needed me at 7 AM in the morning…for crying out loud! You need me to WHAT?! So I threw on some jeans and layers of warmth, shot-gunned a cup …