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I Fell Off the Treadmill!
Image: FreeDigitalPhotos.netAnd the Winner is: George! Congratulations George! I'll be sending you your copy of When You Need A Miracle by Linda Evans Shepherd. Thank you to everyone who tossed their names into the drawing. I fell off the treadmill a few...
Three Little “D” Words that Get Us In Trouble
Here's a little quiz for you. Read through these three verses from Zechariah 1 and identify three ways that the Israelites sinfully reacted. Here's a clue: each of the three ways starts with the letter "d."4 “Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former...
Is God Having A Temper Tantrum?
What do you think of when you think of God being "jealous"? What motivates the heart of God to be jealous? When I think of God's jealousy, I sometimes think of Him being angry, like a husband being angry about his wife's infidelity. And I think God's righteous...
Book Give-Away: “When You Need A Miracle”
(Read below how you can put your name in the raffle for a free copy of this book).I'll be honest. A book with the word "miracle" in the title can put me off. Although I believe in God's abilities for miracles, I don't believe in telling God what He is required to do....
The Way to Forget Your Worry
In my last post, we talked about I Peter 5:7 about casting our anxiety upon the Lord. The next verse after that shouldn't surprise us. It's so logical that Peter next says, “Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls about...
“Cast” Is A Violent Word! Surprise!
(Image found at http://www.middletownbiblechurch.org/worryfea/worry1.htm)Let's continue our occasional focus on worry with another excerpt from my book, Partly Cloudy with Scattered Worries. This time, let's look at I Peter 5:7, "casting all...
Kicking Against the Goads Sure Is Painful
Some time ago I posted about Jesus's question to Paul, "‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads’" (Acts 26:14 NASB).(If you want to check out that post, click on goads.)That verse and what I'd said in the post...
Put Zechariah 1:5 on My Headstone
The older I become, the more aware I am of the passage of time. Not just, "Wow, this year is going so fast. It's already August." But the perspective of looking at my five-year-old grandson, Raffi, and thinking that some day (if the Lord tarries), he'll be a grandpa...
Worried That I Can’t Love God Enough
Image: FreeDigitalPhotos.netOne afternoon after I’d been a Christian for about five years, I drove home from church feeling downhearted. Why can’t I love God enough? I asked myself over and over again. I was afraid that if I didn’t love him “enough,” He would never...
Where Adultery Starts
Image: FreeDigitalPhotos.net"It's actually easier to resist adultery than eating too much pie."That's what I wrote in a past post. The thought sprang into my mind and it seemed contrary to what I was writing at the time. But it seemed true because very few people plan...
God More Important Than Sugar? Is That Possible?
In my last post, I talked about how succumbing to my addiction of sugar is not a "small" sin, yet I overlook it because it doesn't seem like there will be "big" consequences. But we talked about how there aren't "big" and "little" sins. Every sin shows our disregard...
Your Sin Starts Here
When I visit our daughter who lives near Seattle, Washington, I love walking in the mornings in nearby neighborhoods. During one walk, I noticed a street drain that had a little sign measuring about 3X5 inches near it that said, "The Puget Sound Starts Here" with an...
God Is Pure Love
Larry and I had been married for seven years and were like married singles. I was terrified that our marriage would end in divorce. In my worry and fear, I tried to get my needs met in whatever selfish way I could. In my desperation to want Larry to love me and meet...
But God, Being Cool Is So Cool!
In a previous post, I talked about claiming God's promises as a "demand." In other posts, I've talked about the idea of "demands." When I first heard of this concept, it didn't resonate with me. I just couldn't "get" it. I couldn't see how it applied to me or in what...
Focus on Jochebed
Today let's focus on a woman of the Bible from Exodus 2 to continue our on-and-off focus about worry. This woman is Jochebed and she had a lot to worry about. She had given birth to a son. Normally a wonderful joy, it actually rang the death bell for the...
Is God a “One Size Fits All” Kind of God?
Image: FreeDigitalPhotos.netOur wonderful God is not a "one size fits all" kind of God. Sometimes I forget that and think things like:Well, God responded to my friend that way, so He'll respond the same way to me.Well, God is "the same yesterday, today and forever,"...
Worry Is Not Benign
We were created to walk in fellowship with God, trusting Him for everything in our lives. We were not created with the capability of carrying the heavy load of worry. Many people think of worry as just an innocuous way to spend time but it is actually destructive....
Are You Thinking or Worrying?
Sometimes when I’m worried, I feel like a fog of fear and anxiety is swirling all around me, blocking out the ability to think clearly and trust God. It quickly fuels responses like complaining, grumbling, being self absorbed and selfish, or making a quick decision...