Creating Calm – 4 Tips for More Peace and Less Stress
Need a little calm in your life? Between the gazillion emails hanging over your head or the crazy amount of activities in your life or the unexpected daily challenges and distractions, perhaps a little peace sounds like a good thing. Although we may not be able to...
The Lord Is Peace
These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world. –John 16:33 Where do you turn when you’re in distress? Where do you run when you’re troubled? Or seek...
Which Promises Are For Me?
Not many things are more comforting than a promise made and kept. And not many things are more hurtful than a promise broken. Knowing we worship a God who keeps his promises is a source of deep joy. But misapplied, this knowledge can also lead us to treasure-hunt...
How Are You Running?
“You were running well; who hindered you from obeying the truth?” – Galatians 5:7 Is anyone hindering you from obeying Truth? Are people telling you things that simply aren’t true? Are you being pulled into the wrong crowd? Are you being attracted to the wrong...
Helping to Impact Our World through God’s Word
“I can’t imagine my life without leading Bible Studies!” Many today are living with disappointment, heartache, and intense pain. God’s Word says, “The thief comes only to steal, kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly (John 10:10)....
Are You Looking for Change?
If we’re really going to understand God’s Word in a way that makes it the core of our being, we need to know without a shadow of a doubt that it is what God said. We don’t need secondhand knowledge; we need firsthand knowledge and the way to get that is through...
One Thing
One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after. Psalm 27:4 How would you finish this verse from Psalm 27? If you had to boil down the greatest desire and longing of your heart to just “one thing,” how would you summarize it? If only a single sentence could...
The Danger of Drifting Away
Seventeen Aspects of Holy Dissatisfaction One mark of Christian authenticity is discontentment with anything less than “all the fullness of God” (Ephesians 3:19). Coasting is not discipleship. Drifting in self-contentment is not like basking in the pool of security,...
Are You Fearful or Fearless?
Are you living in fear? It’s easy to look at your circumstances and become overwhelmed with the challenges that appear impossible to handle. What do you do? Flying, dying, snakes, quakes, mistakes, you name it, people are afraid of all kinds of things. Maybe these...
The Power of God’s Name!
So much of our confusion, our pain, our indecision, and our wrong decisions come because we do not know God. We may know about Him—we may know what others know or say about Him—but do we know what God says about Himself? Do we know for ourselves His attributes and His...