My first season of "observing" Lent was back in 2013. I went to an Ash Wednesday service and learned that the season of Lent was designed to evaluate areas of your life where you were thirsting for God. At the time, my thoughts went to my struggling marriage, and I...

Doubt. We have all experienced it. And in our human minds, we are always searching for proof. Thomas shows us this in the gospel of John. He was one of the twelve disciples not present when Jesus first appeared to them. "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them,...

How do we have a relationship with God the Father - to become restored to Him as sons and daughters of the highest King and receive an inheritance of everlasting life? This gift is accessible to anyone and everyone; there's just one way to get there - through the...

I know it's challenging. Maybe where you're standing right now, it's hard to understand how the problem can be fixed, how things can turn around, how it's going to get better. But we need to remember, God's perspective is different from ours. His ways are higher, and...

I love comfortable shoes and getting comfortable after a ten-hour day when I only want to put my feet up and relax. But it's one thing to love to get comfortable and quite another "staying" comfortable because of fear of the unknown. Joshua 1:9 says, "Have I not...

Did you know that control is an illusion? It kind of looks like pulling on this rope. It feels like I'm doing something - that l'm participating and have a say in what's going on around me. But in all actuality, all I'm doing is pulling and becoming tired and holding...

"Pass through, pass through the gates!Prepare the way for the people.Build up, build up the highway!Remove the stones.Raise a banner for the nations." Isaiah spoke these prophetic words in chapter 62:10 to the people of Israel, proclaiming there would come a time they...

Do you have rooms in your heart that look like this: Boxes everywhere, filled with debris and inches of dust? Do you say each day, "You can't go in there, Lord. It's too messy. I need to straighten some things up before I let you in there. Just stay in this room where...

Today, don't focus on the storm, focus on the GOD who goes before you! "The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged." ~ Deuteronomy 31:8

Did you know that God doesn't keep score? He doesn't add up all the things we've done wrong and all of the mistakes we've made. When we ask for and receive His forgiveness, "he has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west." Psalm 103:12 What a...