by Kathy Collard Miller | May 26, 2012 | faith, grace, holiness, love, unconditional love
Are you ready for the third empowering way to love well? (Read my previous two posts for the other two ways). I Timothy 1:5 gives it to us: “a sincere faith.” At first I wondered how faith figures in with giving love for the benefit of the other...
by Kathy Collard Miller | May 12, 2012 | attitude, encouragement, endurance, grace, grief, honorable calling, mother
My mother, Vivian Dauer Collard Daugherty, has been an amazing example of unconditional love in my life. Of all things, when I think of my mom, her love has been expressed as support, encouragement, and interest. When I skyped with her this morning, she wanted to see...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Apr 24, 2012 | grace, kindness
I don’t often get the opportunity to drop celebrity names but I can when it comes to being influenced by and meeting Charles “Chuck” Colson. In 2006, my husband, Larry, came across an opportunity called Centurions Program founded and taught...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Apr 21, 2012 | grace, holiness, knowing and understanding God, unconditional love
Wouldn’t it be fun to repent because of pleasure? Doesn’t that sound attractive? A wonderful motivation?It certainly was a strange and amazing thought to me when I read John Piper’s idea of that in his book, Brothers, We Are Not Professionals. (Even...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Feb 28, 2012 | God's questions, grace, holiness, knowing and understanding God
Have you ever been asked to attend a meeting and the person in charge is saying, “Now we need a volunteer to organize and coordinate this event. Who wants to do it?”You look around and realize that you’re the only other person at the table. And the...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Feb 8, 2012 | grace, something difficult, thanksgiving, trials
Today was a very normal day.Today was a very un-unusal day.Today was a very blessed day.My four-year-old grandson, Raphael, doesn’t have a brain tumor, brain damage, or any kind of “unusual.” Today could have been a totally different kind of day if...
