Many fanatics preach against continuous learning, that is, they want people to rely entirely on the power of the Holy Spirit. Some of them believe that reading books and having formal education are worldly. Nevertheless, […]
Did you ever have a beloved blankie as a child? Mine was a splotchy, magenta beauty I abused until it was in pieces. I cherished it. My mom did not. When I looked for it […]
There is no doubt that forgiveness is one of the most difficult things to practice. When we have been hurt so many times, those walls seem to build and our hearts tend to harden to […]
Last week, we moved from Minnesota to Texas. I literally loaded my van in a snowstorm- and two days later ended up unpacking wet stuff in 80-degree heat. It has been a hard transition as […]
“Then this message came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “This is what the Lord says: If you can break my covenant with the day and the night so that one does not follow the other, only then will my covenant […]
Have you ever faced a time in your life where it felt like nothing seemed to be working in your favor? I have. In fact, I am walking through one right now. Sometimes I feel […]
It was the fall of 2015 and I had never wept so incessantly before in my life. It was ridiculous and I knew it was. Yet grief comes. Moving sixteen hundred miles to run on […]
“No man is an island” is not just another cliché; it is a principle that we can find in the Scripture, “For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself” (Romans […]
There are often times that Scripture speaks out to me differently than when I have read the same Scripture before. I happened to be going through a tough season, and I started following a Bible […]
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