Remembering 9/11—When Fear Becomes Strength

Remembering 9/11—When Fear Becomes Strength

Sitting in my kitchen with my four young children at the time, we were preparing for another normal day. Fixing breakfast and cracking out the books for homeschooling. Then the phone rang. It was my mom. “Turn on the TV now!” She knew I did not watch TV much, but I...
Finding Strength in God’s Presence

Finding Strength in God’s Presence

2 Timothy 4:16-18 (NLT) “The first time I was brought before the judge, no one came with me. Everyone abandoned me. May it not be counted against them. But the Lord stood with me and gave me strength so that I might preach the Good News in its entirety for all the...
Skipping the Envy and Rooting Others On

Skipping the Envy and Rooting Others On

Numbers 11:29, “ But Moses replied, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the Lord’s people were prophets and that the Lord would put His Spirit upon them all!”” Ever felt like others might be jealous of you? Or maybe some are even jealous for you? Ah, the...
Choose Your Master

Choose Your Master

“You will be accepted if you do what is right. But if you refuse to do what is right, then watch out! Sin is crouching at the door, eager to control you. But you must subdue it and be its master.” Genesis 4:7 (NLT) Like it or not, we all have a master. We’re gonna...
Turning Your “Have To” Into a “Get To”

Turning Your “Have To” Into a “Get To”

“So the Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.” Numbers 1:54   Reading from the book of Numbers this morning (I know what you’re thinking . . . probably not one of the favored books of the Bible) but it is part of the...
Learning from the School of Hard Knocks the Jabez Way

Learning from the School of Hard Knocks the Jabez Way

Sometimes life’s hard knocks can knock us down. Sometimes we can begin to let ourselves be defined by those hard places. And sometimes we decide that we won’t be.   Right smack dab in the middle of a family reunion of sorts, tracing the nation of Israel in...

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