A few weeks ago there was a terrible tragedy in the quaint suburban town I live in. A mother stabbed her own eight year old son one hundred times and then she stabbed the five year old girl she was babysitting. She murdered both of them. In her …
Pruning The Fruit of Self-Control
"You are more than the sum total of your feelings and perfectly capable of that little gift from Jesus called self-control." ~ Lysa Terkeurst Do you want more joy, peace, hope and power in your life? If so, it starts with living a life of …
One Simple and Powerful Word
"In our own case we accept excuses too easily. In other peoples we do not accept them easily enough." ~ C.S.Lewis. Many years ago I found myself thinking about a word. I felt like the Lord was saying to me "If only my people had more of this, the …
The Remedy For Worrying
If you are a person that tends to worry, one of the hardest things to correct in your life is to not worry. I know because I have spent most of my life worrying. I praise God for bringing me a long ways from the obsessive worrier I use to …
Dating The Right Person
"I wish had known that the in-love experience is not an adequate foundation for marriage. Nobody told me this. I thought the whole thing was you fall in love with somebody, and it’s so wonderful, and it’s so euphoric, and it’s going to be that way …
Cutting the Noose of Unforgiveness
Has your heart ever been broken in so many pieces that you knew you would never be the same again? Have you ever been victimized in such a way that it left you filled with nothing but rage and hatred? Your loved one gets killed by someone that …
