Category: CHRISTIAN LIFE
Foes Without; Fears Within
Civil War broke out. (Have you known war, real human disruption and conflict, even if on a small scale?) It is fair to call it “breaking out,” as if it were a plague that was destined to take the lives of many cherished family members and...
Finishing Well
“Cease listening, my son, to discipline, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.” (Proverbs 19:27) No man, save Christ, is perfect. But what makes men and women great is a teachable spirit over a lifetime. A man who decides he knows it all or...
Finding Help In Troubled Waters
This has been a particularly difficult week, and I confess to have fallen prey to anxiety and fretting. Worry can give small problems such long shadows that they become giants of immense, irresistible proportions. On the other hand, I fully realize that there is no enemy...
Finding Help at the Throne of Grace
Do you have a significant need that has not been met, or an urgent prayer that hasn’t been answered? If so, I’m right there with you—and I bring good news. God has made provision for such times: “Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the...
Faith-Sized Requests
Few things are as fixed as mountains. But, on the day after Jesus cursed the fig tree, He declared that they can be moved. “Have faith in God. Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’...
Encouragement from Job the Sufferer
Like twin tsunamis, affliction overtook Job in two crushing waves. First his immense wealth and his ten children were swept away. Then his body was tormented by “loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head” (2:7).Job’s story spans forty-two chapters...
Eight Hundred Thirty-Three Dollars and Thirty-Three Cents
This figure, $833.33, represents an early encouragement from God . . . “early,” as in “early in our marriage.” It certainly WAS an encouragement that helped us think about God’s ability and desire to provide everything we need for our ministry and for our lives. Just...
Drinking From the Bitter Waters
By many miracles, God delivered Israel out of Egypt and across the Red Sea. Immediately thereafter, they were three days in the wilderness without water. When they did find at Marah the water they had desperately sought, it was bitter (Exodus 15:22-25). How would they respond...
Faithfulness in Little Things
I once met a man who was a construction worker by trade. Before he married, his wife-to-be promised that she would prepare a hot meal for him to take to work—every morning. No peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a bag chips for this man. He...
Estate Planning, by the Master
Here’s an important message from a businessman. He knows money, but he knows God better. His words need to be taken to heart. Read them carefully. -Editor For some time now, I have been dealing with the issue of protecting my children’s and their children’s inheritance....
