by Kathy Collard Miller | Apr 1, 2015 | God's heart, God's love, heart change, holiness, love
Do you want to see Jesus’ compassion and patience in action? It’s in Jesus’ encounter with the rich young ruler.In one way or another, we’re all like the rich young ruler of Matthew 19:16-22. We just each have a different sinful strategy to cope with life. The young...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Mar 25, 2015 | faith, heart change, holiness, people pleasing, self-protective sinful strategies, sin, stress, Trust
Here’s one of my husband, Larry’s, stories in our book:I, Larry, remember as a child in Sunday School protecting myself from the ridicule of others about my poor public reading skills. It would just kill me when the teacher would have the group read a...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Mar 21, 2015 | God's love, godly sorrow, heart change, holiness, love
Several years ago, a friend passed along confidential information about us and we were hurt. It initially felt “right” to wallow in our pain and we wanted to strike out in anger. But then we rehearsed how we could choose to have godly sorrow instead.When someone sins...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Mar 18, 2015 | anger, heart change, holiness, love, Trust
(Thanks to my husband, Larry, who shared this in our new book, Never Ever Be the Same: A New You Starts Today.)As Christians we have no rights and entitlements. We can only rightfully claim the promise of our inheritances in Christ and any other promises...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Mar 14, 2015 | faith, heart change, holiness, love, Trust
Have you ever considered your trials and found comfort through thinking, “This too will pass”? That phrase sounds benign enough but I’m wondering if it leaves out God in some way. Because, at least for me, it supports in my heart an attitude of “I’ll just grin and...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Mar 12, 2015 | faith, heart change, holiness, love
How do you envision spiritual growth? Most of us think of it visually like a linear time line. On the left side of the line we make a step of progress and the temptation seems to be behind us and we won’t address it again. We have moved along that line to the right...
