There comes a moment when you realize that survival just isn’t enough. It’s not wrong—it’s just incomplete. For a long time, maybe surviving was the win. Just breathing. Just staying in the game. Just putting one foot in front of the other with your…
A wonderful young believer who is deeply committed to pleasing God was feeling a little down about his life. Despite his desire to honor our Heavenly Father, he was finding it challenging to shake the feeling that his life lacked significance. He had a…
We all long for fulfillment—meaningful relationships, prosperity, good health, and the blessings that help us reach our fullest potential. In John 10:10, Jesus reminds us that he came to offer a life that is not just abundant but more than abundant. We all understand…
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (NLT) reminds us, “Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you with a high price….
If choosing love were always easy, everyone would do it, because the benefits of choosing to love always outweighs everything else. However, the reality is that choosing to love others rather than repaying them the same unkindness they’ve doled out to us is not…
Ella struggled for years with addiction, and both her and her brother would binge together. With an abusive father and an addicted mother, drugs and dealers were always around their home. She started taking them at a very young age, but as hazed as…
It’s long been said that women are more emotional than men, and I’m not so sure that’s true. As someone that’s been married for many years, I believe men are equally as emotional as women, but expressing those emotions is another story altogether. More…
Growing up, the evening news was my grandmother’s favorite. She never missed it, and it was known among all her grands that we were forbidden to bother her for that 30-minute slot. We were not allowed to touch that big ol’ black and white…
1John 4:19(NLT) says, “We love each other because he loved us first.” This is such an important verse to our relationship with God. 1John 4:16 tells us that God is love. He’s the Originator of perfect love, and this perfect love can only come…
A person that is self-motivated is very driven to accomplish goals and ambitions, and they usually don’t require a lot of prodding and supervision. They assess and quickly analyze a situation with a good degree of accuracy and then proceed to do what needs…
