I was asked by a reader a few months ago, “Why does God allow bad?” Or at least that was the basic context of his query. He asked me this shortly after the passing of a sweet woman in my church. Through her death, I was able to witness, in a way, how her life […]

Faith can move mountains! I hear it over and over. All I need is faith the size of a mustard seed and mountains will be moved, trees will uproot, God will give you the ability to do great things! Faith can move mountains. What about them mountains that don’t get moved? Am I not praying […]

I sometimes wonder what others must think of me when they read this blog. Especially those that know me on a more personal level and those that have seen the “before and after” me. I used to shake my head at the so called “bible pounders” as if there were something ridiculous about those that […]

The thief cometh not, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. John 10:10 We all have times in our life when things just aren’t going as sweetly as we wish they could be. Whether it’s just having a rough morning getting […]

Have you ever felt like the world was placing labels on you that you didn’t deserve? You may have even started to believe in those labels because of moments or seasons of weakness and turmoil. Now, I’m not here to say that labels are always wrong or that they make you who you are at […]

I used to sit and seriously wonder if God put me on this earth to be one those misfortunates that others learn lessons from. You know…what NOT to be. I could sit here and go through the list of all the things I did wrong and of all the people I wronged in the process…the […]

Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the […]

But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.                       2 Peter 2:22   You know, there aren’t many things about myself that […]

What is salvation?  If you asked me this question a couple years ago, or the 30 prior to that, I wouldn’t have had the slightest clue in how to answer. I didn’t know what it meant, what it looked like, what it felt like.  The past couple weeks, though, I have been given a few […]

An assignment of refinement.  It’s a term I read once while reading a book by one of my favorite authoresses.  I used to just call it, “I’m so messed up and this just is NOT how I should be living! How in the world did I get like this?  Ok, how do I change?”  Somehow […]