Giving thanks FOR all things?
By developing a routine of thanking and praising God, I could appreciate hidden blessings versus wallowing in obvious losses.
Category God’s love
Celebrate our tribulations!
God has a purpose in tribulations. If we persevere, character and hope grow bringing supreme confidence in God's amazing love. His Holy Spirit poured out God's love into our hearts, enabling us to celebrate our tribulations.
Podcast – How to embrace God with abandon
Like many of us, Habakkuk struggled with what God allowed in his life. His name means “embrace,” or “hug,” and eventually Habakkuk embraced God’s plan and hugged it out with Him. I Joe, did as well during my Stage IV…
How to get your life back in a crisis.
Crisis had been ruling my life for month after brutal month and I was done. I told God, “I want my life back.” Like many of you now, I had been fighting cancer, Stage IV metastatic melanoma in my case.…
Behold, Christ the Lord!
As we enter into Christmas with another year behind us, some of us with good memories, and others with pain in our hearts and bodies, let us Behold the miracle and hope we have in Christmas. It’s all about a…
Why Is This SO Hard?
When Mary first heard she was pregnant with the Messiah, she was naturally overjoyed. As her Aunt Elizabeth put it, she was truly “Blessed among women!” (Luke 1:42). One might think her life would be full of honors and privileges,…
Where Is God When I’m Suffering?
The following are some hard but good questions from one of our cancer patients along with my answers: “Where is God? Why has He permitted over 3 million lives to be lost to this virus? Why am I still struggling with this…
Five Keys to Victory in Any Battle – #4 – Gift of God
Religion cannot achieve it; earthly pleasures cannot match it; psychology fails to reproduce it – let alone explain it; oppression can’t squash it, and confusion can’t overcome it. There’s no comparison to this incredible “gift of God” which Jesus offers.…
Suffering – Detour or Path to Joy?
There is something about great hardship that makes us cling to God like never before. We desperately cry out to avoid the pain. He draws near to us, as He is compelled by His love for us. Then He reveals…
Humility’s Presence
Sitting on my deck watching the birds early in the morning is one of my favorite things on my “bucket list,” which I get to do every day! A bucket list makes me feel like I’m not living yet, until…