Real Life Makeover
Did you ever watch the TV show What Not to Wear? For ten years we watched while guests who wanted to makeover their appearance took all the clothes in their closets to the show hosts, who usually tossed it all. Then they were taught how to shop for clothes and...
Details, Schmetails! Who Cares About the Details?
The faith that opened your heart in the first place, allows the Holy Spirit to use just the right pressure and just the right experience to produce just the right fruit. The fruits of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control are not edible, but eternal.
Get Ready, It’s Almost Here! 31 Days of Five Minute Friday Free-Writes
I’m inviting you to join me as we explore the Fruits of the Spirit. Galatians 5:22-23 will guide us through the series as we learn about each one: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. I hope you’ll join me.
Start: What’s the Big Deal?
Why is getting started on anything such a big deal?
No Wasting Time in the Way-Back Machine
We can mourn our yesterdays, but what does that do but feed today’s disappointment. Let’s not live there. Instead, let’s learn from our yesterdays while we live for today and hope for tomorrow (Rom 15:13).
Begin Again
My last post was a challenge to get moving because we all have kingdom assignments. It was stronger than encouragement but not quite a rebuke to those of us that can’t seem to move forward. We all have our challenges. The good news is that God allows us all a fresh start again and again.
The Clock is Ticking…
In the not so distant past (about 20 years ago) I sat with my five-year-old son on my lap in front of the glowing television screen listening to Billy Graham sharing a godly message that when straight to my heart. I can’t remember ever not knowing who Jesus was, but I didn’t know who Jesus is until that night.
Are You Willing to Follow Through?
During that time of waiting, Timothy learned that follow through matters. He had to follow through in diligence, keeping up with his school work and chores to show his parents he wasn’t only willing but ready for the responsibility. From his parents, he learned how to make and keep a promise; how to follow through in love..
He Said I Promise
In 1984 I was a 26-year-old mother of three, in debt and living in low-income housing. I remember lying on my second-hand couch full of anxiety and praying, “Lord please help me. Help me and I promise I’ll start going to church.”
My Place
I have a place in Christ, over which no man has control and no job can compare.
NOW, it’s up to me to live in the truth of who I am.