Living a Life of Love

Due to technical difficulties, there will be no blog this week. However, what do we do in the midst of difficulties? We praise God! That’s what we do. We praise God in the midst of our difficulties. Let this be your song of praise today. No matter what you are facing, sing it out! Our bad moods can’t stand it, the enemy flees from it and God absolutely loves it! God we praise you! Be back next week with new content and more stories of […]

Have you ever heard the phrase, “the Word is alive?” What exactly does that mean? If you have been around the church for any length of time, you have probably heard this particular phrase. Maybe you struggle with understanding the idea. I know I did. For a long time, I had no interest in reading the Bible. But one day, years ago, I joined a bible study and things began to change for me. Each week, we had scriptures to look up, read and reflect […]

Waiting is one of the most difficult things to do.  Yet, I find myself always waiting on something. When God spoke to me years ago and said, “Sell the house,” we began waiting for the right buyer. After that, God said, “sell the business and write a book,” and we waited. Now, just a few years later, I am still waiting. Do you feel like you are always waiting?  Here is what I discovered; there is a proper way to wait that pleases to the […]

When we think about The Lord’s Prayer, there’s one last piece I don’t want to talk about. In fact, while writing each blog for the last three weeks, I decided to skip right over it. However, it is usually those issues we tend to avoid that need our attention the most. Today, we are going to take a long, hard look at the miracle of forgiveness. If you remember, several weeks ago, in the miracle of prayer – Part 1, we learned prayer is a […]

I remember as a kid wanting to always be first. Flailing my little hand in the air, as if to say, “pick me, pick me!” I definitely have the “me first” mentality. This is the culture we live in. As we continue to look at the miracle of prayer, through The Lord’s Prayer, we see an order that does not include me being first and there is a reason. Last week, we discovered lots of miracles intertwined within The Lord’s Prayer. Starting with God, as […]

As we continue to look at the miracle of prayer Jesus taught us, let’s go back to Matthew 6:9-13.  “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, 10 your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us today our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.” See it with new eyes.  Have you ever looked at the Lord’s Prayer from […]