Into the Light
Opening up to another human being is tricky. Humans are not God, not perfect, and not the answer, but the right person can be the very vehicle to deliver God’s grace and gift of righteousness.
Category surrender
Face Time – Living in the Presence
– By Joe Fornear Our struggles can appear so high, wide, and long – sometimes insurmountable to us. Yet appearances are a poor monitor of the multidimensional realities of God. When the Lord set up the temple worship system in…
Power Napping
– By Joe Fornear I hear it often when talking with people fighting cancer. “I don’t know how people do this without the Lord.” Indeed. In actuality, nothing in life was intended by our Maker to be “do-it-yourself.” We were…
Breaking Well
– By Joe Fornear The storyline of one TV show is not so different from that of hundreds of people who are diagnosed daily. A 50-year-old father and husband is informed his cancer is inoperable, so he launches a plan…
Letting Go
That thing I'm clinging to... isn't really gone, it's put into the hands of the One Who gives His life to it in a way that keeps it safe from my worship and control.
Live Weak?
It’s hard for me to judge Lance. Had I been in his shoes, I may have followed the same mountaintop path to vain glory that he chose. As I watched him confess before the world, the takeaway for me was the theme of our books and our ministry: It’s okay to be weak. Admitting weakness will make us strong as we lean on the Lord.
Lighten Your Load in 2013
What is true for physical limits “carries” over to spiritual and emotional limits. We can only haul so many burdens before control squirts out of our hands. Nerves shatter. Tempers are lost. We stumble under the weight.
Pathway to Glory – Suffering?
Maybe when God wants to accomplish something, He marks it with struggle so humans know their limits and give all glory to Him.
When A Plan Comes Together
We may feel out of control, but that does not mean He is.
Coping with Insensitivity
It’s just a fact of life – people say careless things. From infancy people have been saying careless things to you. One of your parents probably serenaded you with the lullaby, “Rock-a-Bye Baby.” Have you ever considered the lyrics of…