But I Can’t Even Love Myself!
Do you love yourself? How about other people? God? Do you even know how to love? What is love, after all? In the list of the Fruit of the Spirit, love is the first one listed. Ever wonder why?
This Sucks!
Apologies for using slightly vulgar language for my title today. My mom said this several days ago, when she was trying to walk but her legs wouldn’t seem to hold her up. Such frustration and anger! I can understand the feeling . . . her body has been faithful and strong all these years, and…
Assistance, Please?
It’s so hard to watch your loved one struggle to accomplish tasks that were once second nature. The deterioration of motor skills can be devastating, or at least highly frustrating. And imagine how frustrating it is to be in their place: the body is not working well and the soul hates it. The big question…
Thrown to the Lions
All right, I admit it. I wasn’t really thrown into the den of lions a la Daniel in the Old Testament. Sure felt like it, though. The aloneness, the anxiety, the fatigue all conspired to ask me if I had done something to make God turn His back. And I know, though it may have…
Covenant, Contract, or Law?
I’m sure you’ve heard the term covenant ** in the Bible. God made a covenant with Noah, vowing that He would never again destroy the world by flood. God made a covenant with Abram, and his descendants became the people of Israel. Nowadays, the most common covenant is made in marriage. It’s not a contract,…
Oh, The Vows We Make!
Have you ever seen a behavior pattern in your life that you can’t understand? · Why do I act like that? · Why did I say that . . . again? · Why can’t I break this bad habit? If you notice things like this in you or someone else, you may have taken an…
Curses and Demons and Vows, Oh My!
As a teenager, I was in my church’s touring youth choir. One balmy night in Arizona most of the girls gathered in a motel room to pray together. It all started going south when someone declared a demon was present, and soon a bunch of nearly hysterical
Do You Need a Tree Surgeon?
Cursing goes on all the time – we just don’t realize it. We hear negative things and even say them about ourselves and they become word curses. Our souls can agree with them so that we eventually become the thing that’s been said. Current cursing is bad enough, but we can also get stuck in…
“As the Twig is Bent, so Grows the Tree”
Iniquity – what a weird word. What could this Old Testament term possibly have to do with modern folks? Plenty! In simplest terms, iniquity means bent. Literally, it means crookedness, perverseness, or moral distortion. I’m sure you’ll agree we see plenty of that today! Whole families can suffer the effects of what becomes generational iniquity.…
It Runs in my Family!
“Don’t ever argue with a redhead! My mother had the same hot temper as me.” “Yeah, and us Scottish folks are so cheap! You think I want to drive this old clunker?” “Well, what about the Irish? You can’t blame me for