Hope When There Is No Hope

Have you been struggling with many different circumstances that you just have no answer for. Well you are not alone in this, there is hope when you think there is no hope. God sees your heart and knows what is going on so don’t worry about what isn’t or is happening, allow Him to guide

You Are Set Apart

Just as the Israelites were set apart , you are set apart for Christ

God’s Timetable Vs Ours

Waiting….. how hard is that? We pray we wait, we pray we wait. Still no answer. We want things to happen and for things to be shown to us clearly as we wait for direction. But have you ever noticed that as you wait, you do see things clearly. In hindsight many things I prayed

Prayer Changes Everything

For many years I was just a pray when you need it, prayer, but often enough, I didn’t see a lot of prayers answered, don’t get me wrong, there were answered prayers but sometimes God would give me things I really should not have asked for, I took my shallow prayers and the sometimes awful

Is God Real?

Is God Real? Many years ago while I was searching for truth I asked the question, “Is God Real?”I grew up in a church that really didn’t teach much except to be afraid of God, lots of rules and ways to behave, I still struggled to know if God was real and how is He

Flames Of Fire, No Escape

All around the world, people are watching out of control wildfires in California. News reports are coming in as fast as the fire spreads, new areas are being hit with consuming flames. Sadly we can see that people have abandon their homes, cars and possessions to escape the surrounding fires, some didn’t make it out

Finding The Dream Job

I often wonder about people who say they are living the dream job. To them the dream job is doing something they love everyday and talking about it, enjoying what they accomplish in it, possibly profiting well from it. I do believe that people can retire from what they have done and talk about it

Spiritual Fitness

If you haven’t been watching the Olympics you are missing out on seeing the amazing physical endurance of these athletes from around the world, they train for years to get an opportunity to compete with the best of the best. They endure pain and suffering, intense workouts and failures as well as triumphs through out

The Challenges We Face

Here comes the New Year…again. As we look ahead to the future, some of us have set some goals, others planned vacation, and maybe some are thinking about moving either to a new home or job. But as you think ahead, considering your plans do you see hope in that? The hope we see is

Put It Through The Strain Test

Have you ever read something that was very enticing and then later realized it was not true? ~Have you ever watched a speaker and thought, yea that’s the way I feel and later realize that the purpose of the speaker was to lure you into their book buying, agenda and following? ~Have you ever read