Encouragement

  • Living On An Island

    Sometimes, life has a way of making us feel as if we have no one around that can comprehend, no one around that can console, no one around that can encourage. Sometimes, our situations, circumstances, challenges, and settings can make us feel as if we’re living life on an island. That is NOT where…

  • Our Greatest Need, Their Greatest Need

    If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent us an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. If our greatest need had been pleasure, God would have sent us…

  • God Can’t Do That

    We’ve all been told to not try to be someone we’re not. As I read these verses, I can’t help but be thankful that God doesn’t try to be someone He’s not…. The saying is trustworthy, for: If we have died with him, we will also live with him; if we endure, we will…

  • Dog Gone Lessons

    As a little introduction to this post… Most people would probably learn a lesson like this from their children but, Melissa and I don’t have kids (yet), but we do have dogs. ______________________ Now, on to the story… A few days ago, I let one of our dogs out to give him some fresh water.…

  • The Secret’s In the Cushion: A word on sin

    When I was a kid, I loved to eat. Even more than I do now. My parents had no problem with me eating (I was a big boy), but they didn’t like me eating at certain times. One of those “no eat” times was before dinner. Starting about an hour before dinner, I wasn’t…

  • When the Waves Break

    I read this quote a couple of days ago… “Christ’s life outwardly was one of the most troubled lives that was ever lived: tempest and tumult, tumult and tempest, the waves breaking over it all the time. But the inner life was a sea of glass. The great calm was always there.” – Henry…