It’s a struggle sometimes to live in the reality of what I know is true – especially when I’m trying to move forward from where I am to where I believe God wants me to be. When I’m in the middle of a Wilderness, when I’m facing a foe, fighting a…
Elf is one of my favorite Christmas movies. I watch 3 or 4 times every year as Christmas approaches. In one scene, Elf is in the department store and the manager announces that Santa is coming. Elf responds with euphoric, childlike elation as he exclaims, “Santaaaaa!!!! Santa’s here?! I know…
Jesus came to this hostile planet when people could be hard as their lives. His birth broke 400 years of deafening silence when not a word from God to man was heard. It was a messy and dangerous world, much like it is today. But when Jesus showed up, hope…
JOHN 15:4-5 says, “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. 5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears…
Have you been casting your cares to the Lord like you’re casting a fishing line?
Or have you learned the skillful art of casting your cares to the Lord like you cast stones across the water?
In a small Texas Panhandle town, the farm business was booming. It was the 70’s and the government had stepped in with incentivized loans at low interest rates, giving the farmers a much needed break and the money they needed to grow their businesses. But the 80’s came roaring in…