How do you measure your spiritual growth? For many of us, we measure it by our church attendance, how much or how often we pray, or if we have read our Bible that day. All those things are great but there is a better way to measure our spiritual growth. It's simple. It's profound. And if we really grasp it, we can change the Continue Reading
What Are You Waiting For?
It's easy for me to sit on the sidelines and watch others race by. I'm not competitive, so I can easily let you go ahead of me. I don't jump the gun like some personalities. Instead I stay back and I wait and wait. And yet sometimes I wonder what on earth am I waiting for. * Am I waiting for the stars to line up just right? * Am I waiting Continue Reading
Joni Eareckson Tada – Video – Lessons from Cancer
Are you familiar with Joni Eareckson Tada? She became a quadriplegic after a diving accident at age 17. Her story is a powerful testimony of how God can use someone's suffering for good. Years ago I read her life story in her book Joni. I have no perspective on this kind of physical suffering. Here is a video Joni made about her Continue Reading
Who Cares?
"What does it even matter?" "Who cares?" "I'm not even sure God cares anymore." * Do you feel alone? *Do you wonder if your life even matters anymore? * Do you have someone who cares about you? Someone who knows you for who you really are? * Are you growing weary or discouraged as the days, months and years buzz by? If so, you are not Continue Reading
Message In a Bottle
It's time to stop, look and listen. Might God want to use a message in a bottle to speak to you today? He did me. I saw this message while I was in my car waiting at a stoplight. I saw and still see the words "let go" and "waiting for us." We know God's plan is best, right? So tell me, why on earth do we cling to the same ole, same Continue Reading
Video – Eric Ludy – Asking The Tough Questions
Even though I am gentle at heart, I am best ministered to by strong truth. I love powerful, passionate truth. And not just any truth, the truth from God's Word. Father God, bring more of Your transforming truth into my life. Don't water down Your good Word. Give it to me straight. Send out Your prophets, not the fortune tellers, but instead the Continue Reading