by Kathy Collard Miller | Oct 1, 2015 | forgiveness, freedom, hope, knowing and understanding God, perfection, perfectionism, salvation, self-protective sinful strategies, shame, sin, thanks, thanksgiving
At the end of this post, I’ll tell you how someone will receive a birthday gift in a drawing. It’s my spiritual birthday! (Tweet that!) As a child, I believed I needed to perform perfectly in order to earn God’s love and approval, along with the...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Oct 28, 2014 | assumptions, attitudes, beauty, gratitude, heaven, pain, salvation, sanctification
I’d thought I’d heard all of my mom’s stories but as we sat at lunch about a year ago, she shared something I’d never heard before. It was a shocking and sad revelation for me. My mom and dad eating their wedding cake.Of course, I...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jun 25, 2014 | anniversary, salvation
We met because I was lost. That flit into my mind yesterday morning as I thought about it being my beloved’s birthday. Larry, my husband, celebrated his birthday; we celebrated forty-four years of marriage on June 20th; and my birthday is Saturday. We...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Apr 18, 2014 | blessings, Easter, forgiveness, grace, gratitude, heaven, peace, pleasure, salvation
When I was a little girl, I attended a church that encouraged going without something during Lent. I always picked chocolate. It was, and still is, my favorite food. It is a food group, right? Of course. But I hadn’t sacrificed anything for Lent for a long time....
by Kathy Collard Miller | Feb 17, 2014 | anxiety, deception, fear, guilt, heaven, hope, hopelessness, longing for God, overwhelmed feelings, salvation
Let’s look at Jude 1:24 one last time. Isn’t it wonderful how much we can glean from this verse?Here it is again:”Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy,”...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Aug 25, 2013 | church, obedience, salvation, Trust, truth
I don’t think I’d thought of this before, but Bill Clem in his book Disciple suggests we shouldn’t so much invite people to accept Christ as Savior but instead, invite them to follow Him as Savior and Lord. I think in our own minds when we share the...
