A Treasured Friend
You’re Invited! The Kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field. – Matthew 13:44…
You’re Invited! The Kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field. – Matthew 13:44…
If God is both good and great, we’re in good hands! Last time we wrote about enjoying the Goodness of God. This time in our five part series on victory, we focus on embracing His incredible greatness to us. And…
– Joe Fornear There is a new 1000 foot glass footbridge in China spanning 600 feet above a valley. There are videos of people frozen on the bridge or crawling across because they’re so freaked out by the height. For many,…
While the enemy is voicing what you lack, God is voicing what you have! And right now you have green grass UNDER YOU. The finished work of Jesus Christ is literally UNDER YOU and IN YOU. Sit in it.
Periods of “silence” are common in the history of God’s relations with man. Yet we always find out later that God was up to something better all along.
As a Stage IV melanoma survivor, the purifying fires of pain have swept through my own heart. Struggles have the potential to revise values and refocus priorities, setting us free from the empty desires and tyrannous demands of life.
Paul was no stranger to hardship. He mastered some miserable circumstances – jailings, whippings, beating and stonings. He knew what it took to not just survive, but to thrive. So like Paul, let’s allow dependence on God’s power to propel us forward into great endurance and patience, even joy.
It is tempting to think we must change on our own so that God will be pleased with us. It is also tempting to think that we can change on our own. Yet we know Paul had become so frustrated that he gave up trying to change. Can you relate to Paul?
Fortunately for us, the Lord never meant suffering to be just a cruel and bitter pill to be dutifully swallowed. Suffering is a path, never a destination.
So to merge the symbolism of the three names (Euodia, Syntyche and Clement), serenity brings harmony between the good times and bad.