When faith is tested it is done in the same way gold is refined. Here is an explanation of what happens. The final stage of gold production —refining— involves removing impurities that remain after the smelting process. Refining companies receive doré bars, as well as scrap gold, and...
I spend a lot of time with the dead people in my family. Typing that line, I must pause and stare at the word. Dead. It doesn’t jive with how it really is. With how alive they really are. Right now, for example, seated at my maternal great grandmother Glady’s oak stationary de...
Scripture does say “the prayers of a righteous man accomplishes much” but we need to understand what that means. Proverbs says to “delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.” When our will aligns with God’s will for us, our prayers will be gran...
Our Friends in the North: With Christopher Eccleston, Mark Strong, Gina McKee, Daniel Craig. Drama examining the politics and change across Britain from the Sixties to the Nineties seen through the varying fortunes of four friends.
lift us up when we fall down, carry us when we can’t walk and support us when we feel alone. That is the kind of God we serve. He saves, redeems and restores. Friends, you are not alone. You are in the palm of God’s hands, your best supporter. Give yourself wholly to Him...
I had followed all the parenting advice of friends, I could have easily cultivated rebellion or resentment in the hearts of my children. But because God gave them to me, it is for me to love, discipline, and nurture them according to their bent and the wisdom and intuition He gives day...
”What wonderful assurance that we are named and claimed by the very one who created the heavens and the earth, the one who set the sun and the moon in their places and knows everything about us, even the hard to love traits and loves us still. The knowledge of our Triune God’s ...
O you who are enthroned in the heavens! 2As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, Many of us probably do not know any servants or slaves. We may at times have felt like a slave when relationships were poor at work or in the home. Perhaps we have even used the ...
He created billions of galaxies and stars. The sun, the moon, the planets…God didn’t create just one simple kind of star. He is over-the-top creative…generous. The heavens declare the glory of God, including his abundant, bountiful nature. ...
Change took us from our rural haven to the capital city of Guatemala. I find myself in wonderand wonderinghow this makes any sense. But, it does. It makes more sense every day. God is faithful. Jesus paid it all. In full. That we may have life abundant. ...