Are you ever tired? Looking for a bit of rest? Need a break? Jesus often took breaks, but they didn’t always go as planned. In Matthew 13 Jesus goes out of His house to sit and rest by the sea. I live 100 yards from the ocean. I have a favorite place to sit and enjoy...
Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling… For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed...
Do you have a problem finishing what you start? That book you’ve been meaning to write? That door that’s been waiting to be fixed? The outing you are going to take with your child? Weight you are going to lose? Do you have a problem finishing what you...
Imagine there is a bank that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening it deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during that day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, every day of...
Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent. Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me. Revelations 3:19-20If you look for Me at Christmas,...
The joy comes quickly. The joy goes quickly. Jesus is in Bethlehem, and then he is gone. The shepherds who looked at Jesus, are looking again after their sheep. The wise men are no longer revering the Lord, but ruling their subjects. Joseph is back in his carpentry...
There are few closed doors to doing business. The opportunities are as wide as a man's ingenuity, as deep as his character, and as high as his faith in God.