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 | Dec 12, 2012 | courage, God's heart, kindness, love, tough love, unconditional love
TA-DA! The winner of the drawing for Designed for Devotion, the new book by Dianne Neal Matthews is Karen!!!!! Congratulations, Karen, I know you’re doing to love it. And thank you everyone for putting in your names.I know you’ve had the experience of...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Sep 14, 2012 | God's heart, heart change, holiness, protect, trials
Image: FreeDigitalPhotos.netHave you had your eyes examined lately? The last time my eyes were examined, I felt tense having that puff of air come toward my eye to test for glaucoma. I knew it was coming and the longer I waited for it, the more tense I became. I...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Sep 6, 2012 | faith, God's heart, obedience, sin, Trust
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,...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Sep 3, 2012 | adultery, anger, encouragement, endurance, God's heart, obedience, perseverance
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...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Aug 13, 2012 | demands, God's heart, sin, temptation, Trust
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”...