I wish I could say I’ve always lived out what Jesus said in Matthew 5:23. That call to go and be reconciled with someone who has something against you sounds simple when you read it. It feels very different when you have to do it. If I’m honest, my reasons for not going were never [...]
I tend to make everything all about me. I don’t mean to, it just happens. Never have I been as aware of this as I was a couple of weeks ago when a speaker at a conference I attended said, “God is saying to you, I MISS YOU!” It was only three words but they were [...]
When someone dies, their unfinished projects usually die with them. But after Dave Feige from Wentworth, South Dakota passed away from a tragic farm accident, his friends gave him a helping hand to complete what he couldn’t complete himself. Feige, 58, had over 1,000 acres that needed harvested, so his best friend, Roger Schrepel, gathered over [...]
Have you ever wondered-- Why do so many believers feel defeated? Why don't many of us live up to our potential? Why do we quote Romans 8:37, saying we are “more than conquerors through Him who loved us” but fail to truly believe it? Why do we say no to God when He asks us [...]
Discomfort and reward are not always exclusive. Discomfort sometimes accompanies me when I write. The blank page that must be filled and a prayer that I’ll somehow, some way have something worthy to say is behind every sentence, every semicolon, every period. But great reward always replaces discomfort once the puzzle pieces of thoughts and [...]
In his book Counterfeit Gods, Timothy Keller quotes the famous singer, Madonna, as saying, I have an iron will, and all of my will has always been to conquer some horrible feeling of inadequacy. . . I push past one spell of it and discover myself as a special human being, and then I get [...]
