Resolving the Past
Let’s be real, we all accumulate baggage on our journeys. We load up with shortcomings, regrets, and sins. So how do we resolve these issues so that we can live free in the here and now? Sins. Who hasn’t mistreated,…
Category handling trials
Time Out
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add…
Help
Hebrews 4:15 – For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. Hebrews 4:16 – Therefore let us draw near…
Advice from a Weak One Made Strong
This week I am posting parts of an interview with Kalisha Frazier of UV Skinz about my book and battle with cancer. UV Skinz makes clothing and other products that protect the skin from ultraviolet rays. The interview was…
The Great Consolation
That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings. –Philippians 3:10 We seek to encourage people who are experiencing considerable pain. When pain wracks the body, it seizes the attention of our…
Thankful in Everything?
In everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. – 1 Thessalonians 5:18 Sometimes God’s requests seem illogical, sometimes impossible, and sometimes both. How can we give thanks in the midst of excruciating pain, or…
Difficulty Factors
In Olympic diving competition, dives are rated according to “difficulty factor.” There is a built-in acknowledgment that some dives are more complicated than others. In so many cancer battles I’ve observed, with the many physical, emotional, and financial complications, the…
Is God Up To Something?
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us. -Romans 8:18 Was God up to something when He allowed Joseph to be sold…
Love Breaks Through
Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Just as it is written, “For your sake we are being put to death all day long;…
Giving Thanks During a Crisis
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. – Philippians 4:6 Crisis often brings a new closeness to God. When fighting for survival, even hard core do-it-yourselfers…