Daily encouragement for Christians
I used to attend a Messianic Jewish church led by an undeniably Spirit-led rabbi. At one Shabbat service, the rabbi made a statement that rattled me for a moment. I don’t remember his exact words but he told the congregation, emphatically, that anyone who had been attending regularly for a year or more and had […]
I’ve mentioned before that we are chicken tenders–we have a small flock of laying hens. Our coop had been empty for some time when I received a message asking if we could adopt a flock of ten young hens that were not allowed to move with their current owners. My grandson jumped excitedly at the […]
Hate the sin, not the sinner. Have you ever heard that before? It appears to me that in our efforts to prove we don’t hate the sinner, we have begun to celebrate the sin with them. As Christians, we are being labeled as supremacists with phobias if we do not embrace the self-indulgent sin the […]
I was raised in a proud family. We were never wealthy but we grew up believing we could and should learn to do everything for ourselves and we should be proud of that. You would find our family in church every Sunday but we were taught self-sufficiency. I didn’t know how to hear God. Turns […]
“Rejoice in this, even though for a little while you may have to experience grief in various trials.” (1 Peter 1:6) Rejoice in what? That you are being protected by Father’s power until you have received your inheritance, gifted to you because Yeshua chose to suffer a bloody and horrendous death to pay the price […]
Several years ago when I first began attending prayer meetings, the pastor used to call on one particular elderly lady to open our session. She always began by praying Psalm 19:15 (14): “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight.” I was a baby Christian in […]
“Anyone who thinks he is religiously observant but does not control his tongue is deceiving himself, and his observance counts for nothing.” (James 1:26) What does “religiously observant” mean to you? Do you realize that Jesus taught religion as relationship? I think about James, the younger brother of Jesus, and wonder what sort of relationship […]
My sister has a fairly new Cricut machine and a young grandson–her first. She has sent me many pictures of her creative works, most of which were sent off to the little fellow she adores. He lives too far away for her to hold and squeeze as often as she’d like but he is always […]
Dictionary.com describes the word tithe as the tenth part of agricultural or personal income set aside for God. It’s a short word that seems to be attached to human emotion. Most people either love it or hate it It’s viewed either as a punishment from God; something you have to do, or as a joy; […]
Does fear of failure keep you from saying yes when you are offered an opportunity? Do you examine yourself looking for your weak areas and convince yourself that you will let someone down and look foolish for trying? I am guilty of this reaction many times. However, I have noticed that God does not just […]
