How Your Troubles Can Be Your Door to Hope
The New Year arrives and we hope and pray that it contains ease and blessings, but what if it brings you troubles? Do you think you aren't blessed? Do you doubt God's goodness? Do you decide hoping isn't safe? We think if we can scoot through life with...
When New Year’s Goals are Good, but Hope Is Better
The New Year is like a blanket of freshly fallen snow. The snow covers everything brown, at least in my neck of the woods. It sparkles in the sunlight. The coyotes have left their mark. The little sparrows leave charming tracks. And then there's me--frozen in...
When You Want Relief but Need Peace
I'm sharing a few thoughts via video today. Click the link below to watch it. Welcome Grace: Peace or Relief? Here is the link to the article at iBelieve.com: 10 Truths to Remember if You Are Struggling with Depression
How to Assure Your Heart of Peace
Peace seems fleeting and difficult to catch. It's vapor and mist. I wonder what it would be like to know peace without having to wrestle for it? What happens when our days become night and what was once bright is now dark? Our flesh may fail, but God never...
The Battleground and the Peace Treaty We all Need
The battleground holds secrets. Wind and rain unearth things best left buried. The battleground turns into a hiding ground, and more time is spent reburying things found rather than standing strong. This battleground could be a physical battleground, but...
The Battle Between Peace and Anxiety and How You Can Win
Have you ever felt as though God has abandoned you? Have you ever felt confused by God? Does it seem as though his peace is fleeting and fickle? These words of the Psalmist reverberate through my mind: Will the Lord reject forever? Will he never...
When You Lose Your Song in the Mess
What do you do when your world goes dark? When you lose your way, your voice, your song? Do you fall in a heap or scramble to busy? Or is it a little bit of both? To tell you the truth, I don't always handle it well when a shadow passes over and the...
What Your Anxiety Tells You About Trust
With this week comes the busiest five weeks of the year. We have a beautiful celebration of thanks this week, and it becomes the opening score to a beautiful opus of celebrating the Author of Life coming to this world in human form. But as the weeks proceed we...
Through the Giver and not the Gifts Comes Victory
The Hard Are you ever weary? Do you wonder why some things in life are just so hard? Do you ever dream of a remote hide-a-way? I shouldn't be shocked when life slaps me alongside the head. But I kinda am. I sometimes don't understand why troubles should...
Do You Have Trust Issues Too?
I've prayed like I've never prayed before. I've reminded God of who He was and who I was. I've laid out my devotion and faithfulness. I've believed for a miracle. And I got a non-miracle. I got a, "Nope, I don't think so." Upset? Yes. Crushed? You bet....
Have You Found God as Your Refuge?
God is I Am The Refuge Series is my desire to point us to God's word, to know what it says, and what His heart says within the words. God is our refuge. He's our strength and our song. He hides us. He fights for us. He is I Am. We are weak and He is our...
Why Your Story of Refuge is Powerful to Me
You Matter Your story matters. It matters more than you think. It matters because without your story, I wouldn't know that I'm not alone. We conquer because of the blood of Jesus working in our lives and because of the God-stories we tell. Each time you...