What happens between the moment you first realize you’re dishonoring God and the time when you finally choose to repent? Every hour – every minute – that we delay in acting on our repentance increases the risk of making other harmful choices and, even worse, moves us further away from the person Christ is calling us to be. The person Christ died for. (Please click on the link to read the entire post. Thank you!)
Continue reading →Thankfully, our heavenly Father knows us. He understands our pain. He sympathizes with our failures. When we allow Him to enter our dysfunction, we experience what it’s like to be whole. We discover the person we are in Him – because of Him.
Continue reading →When was the last time you really laughed with your spouse? You can almost hear Tom Hanks’ voice paraphrasing his famous line from “A League of Their Own,” “There’s no laughter in marriage!” But what if the laughter in your marriage really was gone?
Continue reading →God commands us to be holy, but He doesn’t leave us to figure it out alone or shout down at us in frustration, “Stop sinning! Be holy!” Instead, He lovingly invites us to come to Him with our struggles. When we confess, He listens to every word, reaches into our lives – directly into our messes – and lifts us out of the many waters.
Continue reading →Have you considered that the more we dismiss our sin, the more we minimize God’s love and Jesus’ sacrifice at Calvary?
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