Daily encouragement for Christians
Decisions, decisions, decisions… all day, every day. They can come at you so quickly that sometimes you may not even think before you have made your choice. Other times you ponder all of the possible scenarios based on your answer, hoping to be wise. What if your decision carried the power of life or death […]
My dad used to be a stickler about always eating dessert if it came with a meal. After all, he had paid the price for it. Have you ever considered the price that was paid to ransom your life? Have you personalized it yet or do you think it was paid for other, more important […]
“You are to say everything I order you… But I will make him hard-hearted… Pharaoh will not listen to you.” (Exodus 7:2-4) I wonder how many of us given a task such as this, would have shaken our head and asked God, “Why are you asking me to talk to someone whom you have already […]
Do you ever read into a Bible story and consider what our ancestors went through physically? Their strength and endurance simply amaze me. Picture Mt. Sinai: 7,497 feet high, nearly one and a half miles. There are currently 3,700 uneven stone steps to the top taking the average tourist three hours to climb. Moses went […]
From the archives: Have you ever felt really tested by God? When I had my wedding ring designed it included a diamond that belonged to my mother who had passed several years before. On a camping trip with my extended family, I lost that diamond. I searched frantically before alerting the rest of the family. […]
Our first instinct when God calls us is to come up with all the reasons we can muster that we will never be acceptable for the position. Doubt, a weapon fashioned by Satan to steal, kill and destroy. Doubt of our own abilities, doubt that God could or would care enough about us to see […]
I’ve heard a couple of people talk of being supernaturally transported through a vision, to Calvary, where they witnessed that fateful day in history, the day we people put our Savior on the cross. When I consider how emotional I get just reading about it I can’t imagine being a witness. I like to think […]
Do you struggle to know that you are fully loved by the Creator of the universe and nothing you do or fail to do today can change that? It doesn’t seem right in our human minds that we can’t somehow cause God to become so angry with us that He just can’t love us anymore. […]
Are you confident in what you believe? How did you learn about salvation? Do you share that journey with others or walk silently in your faith? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart.” (Romans 10:8) What is that word? “The word about trust, which we proclaim, namely, that if you […]
God has good gifts to give! But His gifts are not the type we give and He doesn’t hand them out like we do. We usually plan to give the best gifts at predetermined milestones in someone’s life such as a special birthday, graduation, marriage, new baby, retirement…. Some of us have come to expect […]
