Posts tagged “Fear”
Don’t be afraid to repent
Has fear ever driven your repentance by thinking, “I need to repent to be forgiven?” As Christians, we don’t repent to be forgiven. We…
Make me the cotton
One night at a mission in Africa, the pastor overheard one of the native people praying. The prayer was simple but strange. The person…
Don’t hide
Tullian Tchividjian is Billy Graham’s grandson and a well-known pastor who loves to preach about God’s unlimited grace. In 2015 he stepped down after…
Who the Son sets free
Shortly after getting my driver’s license, I remember driving around town with my best friend, feeling rather puffed up with my newfound freedom. At…
Taps
“Taps is a military bugle call played slow and solemn to invoke a feeling of remembrance and respect for the soldiers who have died…
Your audience of one
The audience gathers eagerly. The eighth-grade band students are dressed in their best backstage, nervously waiting for each of their names to be called…
The gift of now
Listening to the news and the watercooler gossip about the news, there’s a pretty good consensus that everyone’s positive everything’s bad in the world….
Power up
Last winter we had a lot of snow, so much snow that we had an unexpected power outage. This isn’t normally a big deal,…
A light on a hill
When the snow falls thick and fast on a Michigan winter’s night, my family has been known to troop through the neighborhood to an…
What a relief!
I remember being lost once when I was young. I was at a department store with my mother. I walked along very contentedly behind…
Nothing to lose
My family has a dog. When she was a puppy, she would snarl and snap at us when we got too close to her…
3 steps for talking about Jesus
As a writer, I’ve often heard the advice to KISS—Keep It Simple, Stupid. So today I’m keeping it simple about a topic we tend…