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So Beautiful And Kind!

Not quite fully awake, making my morning Smoothie, I suddenly noticed the words of the little made-up song I was singing aloud to God. In my grogginess, I had not even been paying attention to the words pouring forth from my mouth. Now I did.

“You are so beautiful and kind, Lord, you are so beautiful and kind,” I sang.

Isn’t it something how we tend to think of beauty as it pertains to people, places, and things? And how we usually think of kindness as it pertains to others being kind or unkind?...

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Please consider taking advantage of the sale for yourself or perhaps to gift the book to others.

Please note I do not know how long the sale will last!

 

Hurting in Their Hearts

She is hurting in her heart. He is hurting in his heart. They are hurting in their hearts.

Ever stop to consider the people being mean, those being yucky, the man acting angry, the woman being distant and aloof, the people acting cold and callous, the woman seeming uncaring, the man showing no compassion, the people who fail to love us, those falling short, the rude man and the icky woman, that they may be hurting in their hearts?

Oh, friend, I am so sensitive. I am so easily offended. I am so q...

What Are You Doing to Help?

This world is in dire straits. To say it is a mess is a vast understatement. The world is falling apart. This is the result of countless people living in rebellion against God almighty. As the world’s woes worsen, what are you doing to help?

Bend your knee before God almighty. Cry out to the Lord in prayer for anyone and everyone and concerning everything around the world the Lord leads you to pray for and about. And pray with all your heart that God will reveal to you His will concerning what H...

JOY in Hard Places

One of the beautiful and powerful things God has done in my life over the years is to teach me how to experience and share with others JOY in hard places.

Given my story has been relentlessly challenging for decades, I never expected I could learn to have JOY in the midst of my trials! But oh I have discovered this is so very possible!

When we are humbly and wholly surrendered to the Lord Jesus Christ, and when we spend time in the presence of the Lord and engage in a deeply intimate personal re...

Help Me With the Sorrow

“Help me with the sorrow,” I prayed to God as I knelt on my knees at the foot of my hotel room bed before the day began.

One of the hardest seasons of my life. The sadness so tangible I feel at times it could take me down under the massive waves of it and like an undertow in the ocean not release its grip on me and let me rise back to the surface.

But I have learned this about sadness, and about all emotions. We do not need to go through them alone. Oh, sure, we can reach out to others for love,...

10 Reasons I Preach Hell

Hell is most assuredly not a popular, happy, positive, upbeat, comfortable, appetizing, satisfying, pleasurable topic for people to hear and read about, but I am strongly compelled to preach about hell for these 10 reasons:

Hell is realHell is foreverJesus preached hellHell is in the BibleCountless people will spend forever in hell and the lake of fire in everlasting tormentI preach truthI love the Lord Jesus Christ with all my heartI love people so exceedingly muchI don’t want people t...

Fresh Wounds

Someone who has hurt me so many times in the past hurt me again. Never any acknowledgment of wrongdoing. Never any remorse. Never any apology. Never any change. Just a matter of time before the hurt comes again. And the fresh wounds. But my attitude has changed about it all. Because of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Don’t get me wrong. It hurts just as much as ever if not more. But now I see the person needs Jesus. The person needs love and forgiveness. Mercy and grace. The person needs prayer. The pers...

When You Die

When you die you will end up in one of two places. Heaven or hell. Do you know how to get to heaven?

There is only one way to get to heaven. But I am afraid countless people think they are going to heaven who will end up in hell and the lake of fire in everlasting torment apart from God. Because they don’t know how to get to heaven. Or because they know how to get to heaven but refuse to follow the directions to get there.

Here is the truth. Jesus Christ is Lord. He died on the cross to pay our ...

Intercede or Intervene?

Facing a big decision regarding how to help someone in need? Or even a group of people? Is it a really tough situation? Hard to decide what to do? Really emotional about it? Feeling you absolutely must help? Should you intercede or intervene?

Interceding is essentially standing in the gap in prayer for others as you cry out to God to help them and you pray as His Holy Spirit leads you to pray.

Intervening per the Cambridge Dictionary online is “to intentionally become involved in a difficult sit...