Good Morning Posts on the book of Job
Do you know why salvation is so hard for people to understand? Because it’s based in a completely different culture. Our culture understands investment and returns. Our culture understands decisions and consequences. It understands labor and wages. But it doesn’t understand grace and undeserved favor. In fact, many find these ideas humiliating, because we are…
Have you ever grabbed your Bible and prayer notebook, sat down, and suddenly felt you weren’t good enough to pray? Maybe it’s been a while since you’ve really prayed or read your Bible. A good long while. Maybe just yesterday you blew it and did something you know offended God, and now you feel totally…
The atmosphere in the auditorium was heavy that day at the seminar I attended with about 200 women from all over the United States. The speaker had shared with us that when difficult circumstances arise, God will reveal to us the reason He allowed that circumstance in our lives. He then sent us back to…
The other day I heard about some families who had purchased condos in a building that hadn’t yet been completed. The top floor remained unfinished because the building project had failed. But the problem continued when it started to rain. Because the top floor wasn’t completed, the ceilings in the floor beneath it were not…
I lay in the hospital bed and listened to the woman next to me cry out, “Why me?” A few days earlier they had found a lump on her breast, something every woman fears. She was still in a state of shock as she walked about the room crying and asking no one in particular,…
Sometimes its hard to be a Christian Christianity is a balancing act of being an example of Christ’s life in us and honesty. It’s not easy to balance these two things, because its not sincere to act like we don’t have real problems, but it is not a good testimony when the world doesn’t see…
