by Kathy Collard Miller | Feb 8, 2013 | freedom, people pleasing, repentance, surrender
We’re so glad that Joseph’s brothers came to the point of repentance and surrender. Being in prison had quite an impact on them.What we may not realize is that God puts each of us in a kind of “prison” so that we also can come to the point of...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Feb 2, 2013 | guilt, heart change, repentance, surrender, trials
We’re continuing in our story about Joseph and his brothers. Next, Joseph puts all the brothers in prison for three days. Let’s pick up the story: “Now Joseph said to them on the third day, ‘Do this and live, for I fear God: if you are...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jan 24, 2013 | holiness, repentance, something difficult, surrender, trials
We’re looking at what was necessary to bring Joseph’s brothers to true repentance and I was reminded of an amazing chapter on repentance that Brian Chapell includes in his great book, Holiness by Grace: Delighting in the Joy That is our Strength (Crossway...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Sep 13, 2012 | pain, repentance, self-protective sinful strategies, SPSS, surrender
Image: FreeDigitalPhotos.netIn my last post, I talked about how experiences, especially traumatic or painful ones, create hyper-vigilance and self-protection. It most likely won’t surprise you to hear I had a traumatic experience in junior high....
by Kathy Collard Miller | Aug 1, 2012 | anxiety, assumptions, beliefs, demands, dependence, obedience, surrender
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...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jul 20, 2012 | repentance, surrender
Congratulations to Janie who won a copy of Mary Englund Murphy’s Bible study book on Joseph. Thank you to everyone who put your name into the raffle. We started our study of Job with a focus on a resistant or hardened heart. Job has shown us the solution...
