"For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength." --Philippians 4-13 (NLT) Sometimes in life, each of us gets the chance to try something interesting for the first time. Maybe we're a little nervous or hesitant to leave our comfort zones, but we step out and try it anyway, and soon we wonder [...]
"You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you! Trust in the Lord always, for the Lord God is the eternal Rock." --Isaiah 26:3-4 (NLT) It has been said that worry is a darkroom where negatives are developed. We all worry about situations in our lives [...]
"Understand, therefore, that the Lord your God is indeed God. He is the faithful God who keeps his covenant for a thousand generations and lavishes his unfailing love on those who love him and obey his commands." --Deuteronomy 7:9 (NLT) Was there ever a time in your life when things didn't go as expected, and [...]
"All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the LORD. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word." --Isaiah 66:2 (ESV) One night, my wife Stephanie was putting away some dinner leftovers. [...]
"That evening Jesus’ disciples went down to the shore to wait for him. But as darkness fell and Jesus still hadn’t come back, they got into the boat and headed across the lake toward Capernaum. Soon a gale swept down upon them, and the sea grew very rough. They had rowed three or four miles [...]
"Meanwhile, as Simon Peter was standing by the fire warming himself, they asked him again, “You’re not one of his disciples, are you?” He denied it, saying, “No, I am not.” But one of the household slaves of the high priest, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, “Didn’t I [...]