INDEPENDENTLY  DEPENDING ON GOD

but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:31   NIV   Independence is often celebrated as a sign of maturity. We teach our children to tie...

New Year…New Outlook

Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ...

Using Our Gifts for Others

Christmas is a season filled with lights, music, and celebration—but beneath all of it is a quiet invitation from God: to use the gifts He has given us to bless others.I’ll keep this blog post with a Christmas theme; but we can and do use our God-given gifts all year...

BE SIGNIFICANT

Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.1 Peter 2:12  (NIV) We can be wealthy, successful and/or popular, but that doesn’t necessarily make us significant....

Love in the Hard Places

Love in the Hard PlacesYou intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.Genesis 50:20  NIVTwo weeks before the nation was shaken by the news of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, my own world was shaken by...