Many people find their emotions at holiday times to be the opposite of what the majority are celebrating.
For example, if your mother recently passed away, Mother’s Day could bring more sadness than joy. If you are poor and homeless at Christmas time, you might feel guilt and anxiety rather than joy because you cannot provide meaningful gifts ...
When the Apostle Paul was led to write encouraging words of advice to the church he had planted in Philippi, he wanted to emphasize the importance of getting our daily priorities straight. He wanted the believers to make obedience to God’s sovreign will the first, last and highest importance for each day of life. He wanted to assure them that such ...
It seems inevitable.
Whenever my Bible Study group gets together, the subject of free will comes up.
It’s certainly one of the hardest concepts to get our heads around. Why would God create us with free will when He knew ahead of time that the consequences would cost Him dearly?
The question gets disguised in many ways — why ...
I suffer from worms!
Ear-worms that is!
Those pesky little snippets of tunes and songs that get stuck in your head and won’t go away. If you’ve ever visited one of the Disney parks you may have heard, “it’s a small world, after all” and now you can’t un-hear it! My apologies if I just triggered that response in you.
Psychologists ...
Whatever your political point of view there can be no question that our society is caught in a swirling maelstrom of rights, grievances, outrage and frustrations. The number of causes and points of view clamoring for our attention and support has exploded exponentially.
I find it not a little ironic that we seem to be mirroring the excesses ...
Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord. [Romans 12:17-19 NIV]
The text ...
“Trust and obey, for there’s no there way To be happy in Jesus But to trust and obey” - J.H Sammis SASB #690
I read the following quote on social media this week:
“Why do babies laugh when their fathers launch them into the air? Because they know the same hands that launched them are there to catch them. That is trust.”
I ...