When you get into your car and turn the key, or push the electric start, the engine roars to life. Your engine has great power. Power to move your car forward at speeds once thought impossible to achieve. One fact is true about starting your car. You need the key…either in your hand or in…
Following God’s will is not only important to your spiritual growth…it is required for your spiritual growth. But following God’s will is never easy. At one time, my three boys, all 17, shared one car between them. They were not happy about having to share. So they would remind me that if I had continued…
I have noticed that when I am under significant stress things tend to come out of me which normally don’t. I bet you are the same way! I verbally tend to become more critical, harsh, and less compassionate toward others. During times like these I have to recalibrate by asking myself who am I really….
In 1 Peter 1:3-7, the Apostle Peter was writing to followers of Jesus who were experiencing hardship. Peter praised God because, “In His great mercy, God has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” Then Peter identifies this living hope as an “Inheritance that can never…
All of us have dreams. Unfortunately some of our dreams end up shattered, like broken pieces of glass lying on the ground. Sometimes others even step on the broken pieces of our shattered dreams, crunching them under their feet. But there is hope. There is value in shattered dreams. In Isaiah 6, the Prophet Isaiah…