Don't ever change yourself to impress someone, cause they should be impressed that you don't change to please others -- When you are going through something hard and wonder where God is, always remember that the teacher is always quiet during a test ---
and we entered the man’s house.13He told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa and bring Simon, who is called Peter;14he will give you a message by which you
and his family, in Genesis 12. When, later, this nation has lost its way, he raises up the prophetic tradition, but does so through the quiet longings of one woman, Hannah, who becomes the mother of Samuel (1 Samuel 1). Time and again, it is individual prophets who speak...
Also, if you get quiet enough, it’s often kind of fun to watch the process play out. Sometimes the world feels like a chaotic and random place, but it actually isn’t. There is a calm order, a rhyme, and reason to things that we don’t always see fully. In human relationships ...
Ask yourself, what motive or reason did the Biblical God, real or fictional, have to murder all those Human Beings? By knowing what the Bible documents, Chapter & Verse (C&V) its God to have done, if the prosecution is correct, why do good people still believe in, worship, support, ...
The Quiet Tomb March 31, 2018sstyves A couple of decades ago I was on a retreat team that hosted a Holy Triduum weekend. The event ended up being one of the most profound experiences of my life. We created a rich and powerful journey for the participants who ranged in age from infant...
to sink deep into your mind and heart. Listen to the birds—they are the messengers of God. Watch the little creatures that creep upon the earth. These are humble acts, to be sure, but sometimes God reaches us profoundly in these simple ways if we will quiet ourselves to listen” (31...
3– We always need to be doing things that stretch usFor me, reading has always been a stretch. I read because I know I must and not because I necessarily want to and reading the Bible in a year was something that I knew was going to stretch me. The way we grow in life is to ...
In these Bible verses, King David reviewed all the ways God had already helped him, and he greeted the next day with songs of praise. In our quiet moments or wakeful nights, make it a point to count examples of God’s faithfulness to us. Doing so is far more likely to give us rest...
I hope your holiday and Advent season were truly wonderful. I hope that you were able to find some quiet time during the hustle and bustle to huddle with your family and talk about Jesus and why He came down and made Himself as tiny as a baby for us. But if you didn’t…don’t ...