Waiting is hard. We hate delays. But what if a waiting season wasn’t a wasted season? What if God wanted to use it as a season of growth? What if His delays didn’t equate to His denials? These truths can change our perspective in a big way!
Forgiveness isn’t about what’s fair or deserved for the other person. Forgiveness is about healing your own heart & the freedom that you experience in the aftermath. The grudge will tear us up & eventually spread into other relationships in our lives!
Too often, we allow small offenses to distract us from a bigger purpose. Our lives would drastically change if we were capable of saying, “I’m over it!” Consider this… Is it really that big of a deal?
What are you pouring into someone else? What are you giving away? Words of affirmation are powerful when spoken into the generation to come. Your words have the power to be louder than the voice of fear in their lives. Be courageous enough to speak up.
When we’re challenged to more & come face-to-face with the giants of our lives, we have a tendency to listen to the voice of fear above all else. We start compiling the list of all the reasons we’ll fail. We see our shortcomings, but God always sees so much more in us. He sees the…
There is a battle raging inside all of us – a battle between what we want now & what’s best in the long-term. The question that could change it all… Why battle a temptation tomorrow when we have the power to eliminate it today? Will we put safeguards in place to keep us from going…
Winning the battles of life aren’t just about slaying the giants. Winning the battle is about taking one small step in the right direction. Whatever your battle is, it’s time to take a step for what’s most important!
The Bible did not create Christianity. Christianity is the result of an event (the resurrection) that created a movement (the church) that produced sacred and reliable texts that were collected and bound into a book (the Bible). But how do we approach not being at peace with everything we read in the Bible? Paul—the apostle,…
To sand off the rough edges of God’s Old Testament behavior is to miss the mess that He waded into in order to see the story of redemption come to fruition at just the right time. This story was meant to be a means to an end – an end that always had me &…
In Genesis, humanity wasn’t an afterthought, unlike almost every other ancient creation story. You were the focal point. You were an image-bearer who was so important that at just the right time, God joined us. A God (singular) creating with that focus was the primary purpose of Genesis. And here’s what else… science doesn’t contrast…