love

When Things Get Difficult

Do you ever feel like the same struggles come up over and over again? If you’re anything like me, you have this inner critic that seems to keep the same phrases on repeat. Listening to that inner critic usually makes you feel more discouraged and like you just can’t seem to learn whatever lesson you’reContinue reading “When Things Get Difficult”

The Little Things

When we pray, we often tend to focus on the big things. We have no problem turning to God in prayer for things that seem too big for us to handle. When we have a diagnosis that changes our lives, when our marriage is on the rocks, when our children are straying, when we justContinue reading “The Little Things”

Loving Others

1 John 4:19-21 (MSG) “We, though, are going to love—love and be loved. First we were loved, now we love. He loved us first. If anyone boasts, “I love God,” and goes right on hating his brother or sister, thinking nothing of it, he is a liar. If he won’t love the person he canContinue reading “Loving Others”

Do We Reflect God Well?

John 17:20-23 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. IContinue reading “Do We Reflect God Well?”

Memorial Day

If you live in America, like me, chances are that you are spending your day today home from work, cooking out with your family in celebration of the unofficial start of the summer season. Today is Memorial Day in America, and while most of us don’t give a passing thought to what this day isContinue reading “Memorial Day”

Unity in Christ

Romans 15:5-7 (AMPC) “Now may the God Who gives the power of patient endurance (steadfastness) and Who supplies encouragement, grant you to live in such mutual harmony and such full sympathy with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may [unanimously] with united hearts and one voice, praise and glorify the God and Father of ourContinue reading “Unity in Christ”

1 John 4:7-8 (TPT) “Those who are loved by God, let his love continually pour from you to one another, because God is love. Everyone who loves is fathered by God and experiences an intimate knowledge of him. The one who doesn’t love has yet to know God, for God is love.“ Love is an abstractContinue reading “Love”

Walking Away

It’s taken me a long time to write this post. On Mother’s Day (2020), my husband and I got into an argument. It was an argument we had had before. Ever since our children were put into foster care in January of 2019, there has been intense pressure from the foster care system for usContinue reading “Walking Away”

The Church of Thyatira: A Study of Revelations

It’s week four of our seven week series on the letters to the churches in the book of Revelations. We’re a little more than halfway through! Revelation was written by the apostle John when he was exiled on the island of Patmos. It includes his vision of Jesus Christ, who gave John instructions to carryContinue reading “The Church of Thyatira: A Study of Revelations”

Blame and Control

When we start asking God to handle areas in our life where we are experiencing bondage, it’s often a painful process. When God wants to deal with a hidden area of our life, He starts to draw it out in the open. We are confronted with things in our life that we would rather notContinue reading “Blame and Control”