by Kathy Collard Miller | Mar 1, 2013 | anxiety, freedom, God's heart, joy, obedience
What is the most surprising verse in the Bible to you? I read Deuteronomy 14:22-26 this morning and I was surprised. Of course, I’ve read the verses before but each time I do, they surprise me! God is giving the Israelites instructions on sacrifices and...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Feb 22, 2013 | anger, attitude, beliefs, holiness, SPSS
We’re continuing the story of Balaam and God has given the donkey the ability to speak. The donkey could see the angel of the Lord with a drawn sword. To avoid Balaam, its rider, being killed, it turned aside. Balaam misinterprets the actions of the donkey as...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Feb 19, 2013 | anger, beliefs, holiness, obedience, self-protective sinful strategies
In our last post, we began to see the foundation for the temptations that led to Balaam’s anger. He is being offered approval, distinction, and prosperity by King Balak. Aren’t those three things that we all want? Little by little, Balaam’s...
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...
