In Romans 8, Paul talks about our identity in Christ. This is the key issue that must be settled in our hearts if we are to fulfill the “why” for our lives – to live and shine for Jesus. When someone asks us who we are, is our first response, “I’m a mother. I’m a…
Emotions. We all have them. When they make us feel good, we love them. When they make us feel bad, we repress them, we deny them or worse, let them flare out of control. God created us with emotions and said that it was very good. So what went wrong? Emotions are from God and…
God walked and lived on this earth as a man for thirty-three years. Jesus willingly chose to lay aside His divinity and be born as a baby; choosing to live with all the limitations of being human, like us. But unlike us, Jesus chose to live in full and complete trust and submission to God and…
February, the month of love. February 14th, Valentine’s day. A day filled with potential joy and heartbreak. A day anticipated by some and dreaded by many. The one day of the year when you are expected to receive and give affirmation of love. Wow. That’s a lot of pressure on one day. I recently heard someone say that it’s a new…
Christmas 2020 will certainly look different from the previous years. Many people will not be with immediate or extended family. Big, elaborate dinners will be reduced to smaller intimate meals. For many, there may be few presents under the tree or perhaps, no tree at all. Yet this is where we have the opportunity, as Christians, to find out…
Acts 1:15-26 And they cast their lots, and the lot fell on Matthias. And he was numbered with the eleven apostles. Acts 1:26 We hear nothing further about Matthias after this point. Jesus chose him out of all the men who had been with Him since His baptism by John. We read accounts of the eleven other apostles…
