Going Beyond Feelings! He has made it clear to you, mortal man, what is good and what the Lord is requiring from you—to act with justice, to treasure the Lord’s gracious love, and to walk humbly in the company of your God. Micah 6:8 For so many Christians faith stops with their emotions. We sing, […]

The Neighbors Sheets What dirty sheets our neighbor hung up on her clothes’ line a women stated to her husband. “Maybe she needs to use a new brand of soap. I wish I could help her to wash her sheets!” The husband looked at her without saying anything. Every two or three days the women […]

Learning How to Lose! For whoever wants to save their life, they will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. Matthew 16:25. Lord, I will try to learn the lesson. You have been teaching me all my Christian life-how to lose. The Christian life is the life of great losses. […]

Scrapes and Bruises! For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Matthew 13:15. Lord, do I know you as my stumbling stone or my building stone? If I am not properly connected to You, I will surely stumble over You, as Peter did (Matthew […]

Sacrificial Preaching! Then the Lord reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, “I have put my words in your mouth. Jeremiah 1:9. Lord, am I a Christian by indoctrination or revelation? If I am merely parenting truth, that has been dictated to me, woe is me and woe is any […]

The Spared Self! I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. Gal. 2:20. I promise with your help not to spare myself, […]

Life Between Brackets! “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind…..” Luke 9:27. Lord, you are teaching me that I must always live my life between brackets. No condition of my life is ever permanent. God brings about every […]

Enduring Contradictions! Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming. (I Peter 1:13). I will promise to learn what Jesus’ experience, the contradictions of sinners against Himself. (Heb. 12:3). So often my best friends become […]

Living as Never Seen Death! Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:55-57 God ‘s purpose for me as […]

Competition with Others! Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. (Hebrews 12:3). I must be aware of one of Satan’s subtlest traps-competing with others. Jesus knew nothing of competition; He only knew service. Too often I am like the disciples, striving to see who […]