I do not like green beans. When I was a kid at Thanksgiving time, my mom would make me eat green beans with the rest of my meal. I learned a very simple trick to mask the taste of green beans- I mix them into my mashed potatoes. To this day, I will mix almost […]
Bible
Two Dangerous Words
Two of the most dangerous words in a believer’s vocabulary are words that don’t seem so dangerous: status quo. A dictionary definition of status quo would be “the existing state of affairs.” Now that doesn’t seem so harmful. What on earth is so dangerous about the way things are? “Status quo” for a Christian becomes […]
I Surrender… Some
Imagine if you will the words to a familiar hymn, with a slight twist… Most to Jesus I surrender; most to him I freely give; I will ever love and trust him, in his presence often live. Much to Jesus I surrender; humbly at his feet I bow, worldly pleasures mostly forsaken; take me, Jesus, […]
Craving
You’ve all experienced it before (especially you ladies who have ever been pregnant): You’re at home, work, school, the sofa (or wherever), and all of sudden, like a mental-emotional ninja, you get a….. craving! The day was going quite calmly until you suddenly had an overwhelming desire for some random food (or non-food item that […]
Total Dependency
You will understand that God is all you need when God is all you have. In Jeremiah 42, the people left behind after Babylon took most of Judah captive come to Jeremiah seeking God’s will. They had just been betrayed and their leader assassinated, and many of them wanted to go to Egypt to seek […]
Stop Trying!
God’s desire is that every single person come to know Him personally as their Savior, and be spared from judgment in Hell (2 Peter 3:9, “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to […]