Love Because He Loved

I have always found the best way, and most effective way to teach is to be both respected and enjoyed. I have been in classrooms where...

My husband can whisper my name in a crowd and my heart will stop for a beat in anticipation. My stomach will tighten, and I will get that...

I like to think I am a reasonable person. I think clearly, listen when presented with options, and am a fair boss and business partner. ...

About a week ago I was on the phone with one of my sons. I was telling him about some things that were happening in our house that...

1Peter 5:2, "shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have...

“You do not want a sacrifice, or I would give it; you are not pleased with a burnt offering. The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken...

“We do not know what to say or do, but our eyes are on you.”(2 Chronicles vs12) I was driving my two youngest to art class yesterday and...

We cannot make our sin look right in the eyes of God, no matter how we dress it up or what clothes we put on it. Solomon moved his wife...

Wait. Picture the scene, you probably know it well. You try to make dinner, clean the kitchen while simultaneously putting away...

It’s not the big things that will get us in the end. We walk around in our bubbles, with all our Christian friends, going to church,...

I was at a conference recently and a woman sat talking about how this book (her book) could magically bring you closer to your kids. That...

James 2: There is no such thing as a fire insurance Christian. If there were, all the demons would be in heaven right now. If all it...

James 1:2-3 “Count it all joy, my brothers, WHEN you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces...

“Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” 1 Corinthians 1:31 All we have, all we have been give, and all we will grow that is mighty...

I am still waist deep in Ezekiel this Lenten season and reading about Gods wrath and judgement. So many times I have written here or in...

I was attending the Bible study and fellowship group I belong to one Sunday and as we began studying, we talked of Deborah. She was a...

James 4:4, “Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes...

Luke 10:38-42 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She...

I was reading in Acts today and the thought struck me, do we receive the Holy Spirit upon belief in Jesus Christ? Is that something truly...