I invite you in to a part of my journey in learning to trust God and be honest with Him and why it was so hard for me for such a long time…maybe you can relate? My earliest memory of learning about Jesus was probably in school. Gasp! Can you believe it? Who remembers …
I can come up with the theological definition of grace fairly easy but it is much harder to understand this amazing concept. Grace is defined as “the freely given, unmerited favor and love of God.” I have, in my mind, placed grace as that which most represented Jesus’ ministry and the law was more relegated …
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 …
Disclaimer: I’ve got issues. You ever read Scripture and, instead of taking conviction in for yourself, you find your eyes wide open and clear (ha!) for other people you see sinning? Reading Scripture and saying things like “I know that’s right!” or “I wonder if they have ever read THAT Scripture! MmmmHmmm!” Oh how the …
I wrote a blog a while back called Confessions of a Homeschool Mom. In it, I described two things I felt the LORD revealed to me…about me…the second one being YOU HAVE NEVER ONCE RESTED IN ME. I remember hearing that in my spirit as we were driving down the road on a rainy Sunday …
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 …