Posts tagged “Bible Stories”
Samson: Gifted from birth
You are the answer to someone’s prayer. In the Bible’s Old Testament, a baby named Samson was God’s answer to the Israelites’ prayers for…
Making sense of Revelation
You might be surprised to hear that Pastor Mike is preaching a sermon series on the book of Revelation. Maybe you’ve heard that Revelation…
Biblical self-care (Part 3)
While God wants us to sweat, he also wants us to rest. Jesus did. “Then, because so many people were coming and going that…
Biblical self-care (Part 2)
“If you find a job that doesn’t feel like work, you’ll never work a day in your life.” Do you believe that? Jesus had…
Three goals for good friends
Despite their soon-to-be-seen flaws, I love what Job’s friends did for their buddy who had hit bottom. “When Job’s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite,…
No cover-ups for evil allowed!
In November 2022, Harvey Weinstein was on trial—again—for raping women who originally met with him thinking the powerful Hollywood figure was simply going to…
Look what God did!
Two years ago, a friend asked me to share a Facebook post. She’s involved with an organization that connects orphans to host families in…
Come as you are—live as he is
Many church websites today display the motto: Come as you are! This is an encouragement for people to understand that Jesus (and their church)…
Jesus didn’t camp
Have you ever thought of how tempting it must have been for Jesus to go camping? At the mountain where Jesus revealed his glory,…
My mom’s moment
As I was studying the book of Job recently, a thought moved me to tears. It was about the moment my mom stuck with…
It’s not (always) your fault
Sometimes our suffering is self-inflicted. As the book of Proverbs frequently warns us, gossips lose friends, hotheads increase drama, and adulterers get burned by…
Despair or prayer?
For 430 years the people of Israel had been slaves in Egypt until God heard their cries and used Moses to lead them out…