Do people ever make you MAD? Irritate you? Rub you the wrong way? Hurt your feelings? Betray you? I recently listened to a mother and her grown daughter arguediscuss something that had happened twenty plus years ago. The daughter, harboring unforgiveness and bitterness, was still visibly angry at her mom for a…
Read more“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” ~ Joshua 1:9 (ESV) Do you feel discouraged some days? Things are not going well for you? Oh, I feel like…
Read moreI am a sucker for a good love story. The book I have been reading recently is about a young boy who falls deeply in love with a girl. Young love is so consuming and captures every emotion. This girl is in a lower social class then the young boy,…
Read more“And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing. And he said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’ They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too.’” ~ Matthew 20:6-7 (ESV) Some…
Read more“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends… These things I command you, so that you will love one another.” ~ John 15: 12-13, 17 (ESV emphasis mine)…
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