Oswald Chambers wrote, “God does not give us overcoming life: He gives us life as we overcome. The strain is in the strength. If there is no strain, there is no strength.” You are probably tired of me using the devotional book, “My Utmost”–but I have to tell you, over…
Read moreI hate cancer. Can I say that again? I REALLY hate cancer. Yet amazingly I find myself unemotional about disease itself. I know that doesn’t make sense. Hate is a powerful emotion, but I think that’s God’s way of inserting his comfort and protecting me from being consumed by it.…
Read more“Bear one another’s burdens, and thus fulfill the law of Christ.” Galatians 6:2 Just yesterday I sat with a friend in the neuro intensive care family waiting room. Tears flowed from her eyes and her speech stammered as she shared with me the trauma that began to unfold ten days…
Read moreISAIAH 43:18-19 “The Lord says, ‘Do not cling to events of the past or dwell on what happened long ago. Watch for the new thing I am going to do. It is happening already – you can see it now!’ As a young teen, I remember visiting my friend and…
Read moreMoses was an impetuous, hot tempered man who tried to take matters into his own hands. He thought he knew how to handle the Egyptians, by creating his own sense of justice, killing a brutal slave master. After 40 years in the desert, Moses was an unsure man, humbled by…
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