Posts tagged “Confidence”
Can I trust God’s power?
“I trust God, but some things just seem insurmountable even for God.” You have probably never said it out loud, but we have all…
Doctrine happens in the kitchen
A friend recently told me that he went to a personal trainer with three goals: to increase strength, to improve balance, and to lose…
Being a Christian is hard!
“Why is my life as a Christian so hard? It wasn’t this hard before.” That has been spoken or thought by many new Christians….
God is with us
Life continues day in and day out, morning and evening. Seasons emerge and fade. Leaves color and fall and then months later slowly emerge….
I/Me/Mine
As I sit down to write this blog post, I have so many things bouncing around in my head about Pastor Mike’s Dirty Bible…
Trash talk?
I was bullied as a kid. He would stalk me after school and trash-talk: “I’m gonna punch you in the face!” I was too…
Praying against evil
I was having a conversation with a group of strangers when things started getting weird. The woman next to me said all sorts of…
If things are going well
If things are going well in this season of your spiritual life, I want to praise God with you. And I want to quote…
The Word is life
Somewhere in Somalia, Christians risk their lives to read the Bible. After sunset, a brave disciple retrieves a hidden Bible from a cave, sneaks…
Don’t wait … go all out for Jesus!
In her book The Happiness Project, author Gretchen Rubin spent a year focusing on improving different aspects of her life in order to become…
I will handle it
On my wedding day, my mom gifted me with something that I finally realized the full weight of today (15 years later). We were…
Temporary residents
While visiting Charleston recently, I heard the unique legend and mystery of former Vice President John C. Calhoun’s grave. Calhoun was buried in Washington…