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When Good Things Happen to Bad People

I know countless people have questioned why bad things happen to good people, so call me sort of backwards when I confess I spent a good long time wondering - and being miserable over - why good things happen to bad people. To be perfectly blunt, and transparent, I was raging angry, and totally bitter, not to mention sometimes consumed, with why someone who had committed a crime against me seemed to be enjoying every single minute of life while I was left with the ugly repercussions and ramif...

Little Sheep, Do You Hear Your Shepherd Calling?

The greatest of all shepherds, the Great Shepherd Himself, Jesus Christ, packed a short and sweet scripture so full of wisdom on the intimacy between a sheep and its shepherd that studying it could forever change your relationship with the Lord.

Jesus makes three main points in this scripture. If you study the original Greek words before they were translated into English, you will find a wealth of wisdom.

Joh 10:27  My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 

First, t...

Are You Denying Yourself?

The world is ever teaching us that we should look after ourselves, right? And we should put ourselves first, shouldn't we? And we should seek stuff for ourselves, right? And we should pursue our dreams, shouldn't we? We should live our lives to the fullest, isn't that right? We should focus on us, true? We should make the most of our lives, shouldn't we? It's not about others, it's about us, correct? Happiness is the aim, isn't that so?

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Are You a Friend of God?

I used to stand with my arms lifted high up in the air with over 50 or so other people in church singing the joyful song, "I am a friend of God." I was a friend of God, for sure. Wasn't I? We were all friends of God, weren't we? But just because we were singing the song, and just because some of us believed in God, were we His friends? Are you?

photo courtesy of wondermar via pixabay.comNo matter how much we might want to think of ourselves as friends of God, it's not as simple as singing happ...

Housewife from 1800's Asks Life-Changing Question

Whoever would have guessed that a humble housewife from the 1800's would pose a question in her incredibly precious and inspiring memoir so utterly life-transforming that centuries later it has the potential to help change the rest of your life? When you ask yourself the same question she asked herself all those hundreds upon hundreds of years ago, you will undoubtedly find in your answer what could well be the catalyst for your entire future to change.

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Promise Breaker, Promise Keeper

Devastated? Devastated was an understatement. He had broken every promise he had ever made to me. Maybe except one. The promise to get rid of me. He had hurt me in every way imaginable - and unimaginable. He had done anything and everything to break my heart. I didn't know a heart could be broken so often, so much, so much so that it was a wonder I had a heart left at all at the end of it all. But little did I know what lesson I would ultimately learn.

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The Desire to Please God

Do you desire to please God, or do you desire that God pleases you? Give my friend a desire to please God, I found myself praying recently. What an odd prayer for someone like me. At least it's an unusual prayer for someone like the woman I used to be. But I have been blessed with such a transformation in my heart and life by the renewing of my mind through study of God's Word and application of it to my life that I have found that above all else I have a desire to love God and to please God....

LOVE UNFATHOMABLE - Do You Have It?

Love unfathomable. Love unimaginable. Love beyond measure. Love boundless. Love unleashed. Love that never ends. Love that goes on and on - and on. Love that loves when all you want to do is run the other way. And hide. And scream. And give up. And turn away. Or lash out. And attack. And show vengeance. And break. Or both. And all of it. Or any of it. And cry. And sob. And weep. And mourn. And bang your fists. Or yell and scream and holler and rage and cry NO WAY, "I will not love this person...

Earned Your Way to Heaven Yet?

Have you earned your way to heaven yet? Done enough good deeds? Helped enough people? Given enough money away to those in need? Just in case you feel like you're not measuring up, I've got news for you.

You might as well quit while you think you're ahead. Or you might as well quit while you are convinced you are behind. Because no matter where you think you stand on the measuring stick of being good enough for heaven, you are absolutely positively definitively most assuredly 100% permanently i...

Newspaper Story on Walk by Faith Ministry

Praise the Lord that He sent freelance reporter Leslie Moses into my life who asked me if she could do a story on me and the wheelchair dogs of Walk by Faith Ministry and then present the story idea to the Savannah Morning News. I was very clear with her that everything I do in my life - including caring for the 16 mostly special needs and senior rescued dogs - is ALL about Jesus Christ. It didn't take her long to realize my heart above all else is to love and serve the Lord, and to share the...