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August 2025

August 04, 2025

Exhaustion: Rest for What Wearies Me

  Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him. Psalm...

July 2025

July 28, 2025

Depression Is Not Forever

   I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I put...

July 23, 2025

When Losses Hit We Must Walk Hand In Hand With God

    How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you...

July 14, 2025

Identifying The Blessing Amidst The Bruising

  Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your...

July 07, 2025

Taking Personal Risks That Build Others Up

    God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we...

June 2025

June 30, 2025

Learning To Wait Well – When Inner Calm Trumps Control

    Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the...

June 24, 2025

How We Fight For Peace

  But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason,...

June 09, 2025

Finding Our Sweet Spot In Serving

  "In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work...

June 02, 2025

Giving People The Benefit Of Doubt – Why It Profits Us All

  Don't lose your grip on love and loyalty. Tie them around your neck; carve...

May 2025

May 26, 2025

Depression: How To Help Those Who Are Suffering

      When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them...

May 19, 2025

Doing What Is Right Is Its Own Reward

  Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. James 4:17  ...

May 12, 2025

Waiting Well Does Us All Good

      The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the...

May 05, 2025

Why Living Carefully Leads to a Life of Fullness

  Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others...

April 2025

April 28, 2025

Honoring Dignity By The Words We Speak

  Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love...

April 21, 2025

Contentment – Enjoying The Process Not Just The Result

    But godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into the...

April 14, 2025

Live Life In Forward Motion By Faith

  Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one...

April 07, 2025

Making Decisions Involves The Head And The Heart

    Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal...

March 2025

March 31, 2025

What Difference Does That Little Bit Of “Extra” Make?

      Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for...

March 24, 2025

Reframing Life Interactions Determines The Story It Tells

  Set your mind on things that are above, not on things that are on...

March 17, 2025

Finding Balance: When Virtues Become Vices in Daily Life

    But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness,...

March 10, 2025

The Power of Appreciation: Words That Uplift and Inspire

  Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish...

March 03, 2025

Learn To Rule Over Those Untamed Emotions

  Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition,...

February 2025

February 24, 2025

God’s Timing in Salvation: Never Stop Praying for Loved Ones

  For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,...

February 17, 2025

We Reflect Jesus When We Forgive

  Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross...

February 10, 2025

Failure Happens When We Stop Caring

  I cry out to God Most High, to God, who fulfills his purpose for...

February 03, 2025

We Are Always Dependent Upon God

  The God of heaven will give us success. Nehemiah 2:20     Lately, I’ve...

January 2025

January 27, 2025

What Does Service To God Look Like

  Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given...

January 20, 2025

Bartering: A Dynamic Feminine Practice

  Barter: to trade by exchanging one commodity for another. Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary  ...

January 13, 2025

Busting Bad Journalism That Seeks to Mislead Us

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper...

January 07, 2025

Discovering Your Workplace Sweet Spot

    It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect....

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