by Kathy Collard Miller | Feb 16, 2013 | holiness, knowing and understanding God, obedience, purposes, temptation
As I continue to read through the Bible, I keep noticing things I hadn’t before. Or knowing my brain…I read them before but forgot. So when I read again about the famous Balaam, I noticed some things that motivated me to write about anger: it’s...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Feb 11, 2013 | heart change, idols, repentance, surrender
In my last post, we talked about “sitting in it” so that we can identify the motives of our hearts. Here’s a further way of “sitting” as given by Elyse Fitzpatrick in her book Idols of the Heart, a book I’ve highly recommended in...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Feb 8, 2013 | freedom, people pleasing, repentance, surrender
We’re so glad that Joseph’s brothers came to the point of repentance and surrender. Being in prison had quite an impact on them.What we may not realize is that God puts each of us in a kind of “prison” so that we also can come to the point of...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Feb 2, 2013 | guilt, heart change, repentance, surrender, trials
We’re continuing in our story about Joseph and his brothers. Next, Joseph puts all the brothers in prison for three days. Let’s pick up the story: “Now Joseph said to them on the third day, ‘Do this and live, for I fear God: if you are...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jan 29, 2013 | beliefs, blame, dependence, forgiveness, freedom, guilt, holiness, idols, messages, repentance
What do you feel like you must make sure other people know about you? What is your most valued personal trait? Do you get upset when people think the opposite of you? You may remember that in past posts I’ve shared that I want to be seen as dependable and...
