“Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.” (Proverbs 3:3) “It’s hard to leave,” David said on the day he stopped by my house on his way back to Florida to begin rebuilding the home of a couple who lost everything after Hurricane …
“God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords.” (1 Timothy 6:15) My brother is a huge Elvis fan, so I knew gifting him and my mom with tickets to a local Elvis festival concert last December would be a huge hit. What I didn’t anticipate was the impact our …
“You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” (Jeremiah 29:13) “Sara, I’ve been looking for you!” So came the cry that changed my life, uttered by my husband David in October 2022. It was my last day serving with Samaritan’s Purse in Fort Myers, Florida, following Hurricane Ian. …
“Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven.” (Matthew 10:32) Before Christmas, I was privileged to spend four days smiling, dancing, greeting, and loving my community by ringing a bell outside my local Sam’s Club to collect money for my local Salvation Army. Notice I didn’t say that I …
“I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.” (John 15:11) “Where are you on the joy-meter?” Our pastor posed this question to our congregation last week. I could only smile in response. My life verse has always been Nehemiah 8:10, which says, “The …
“He says, ‘Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.’” (Psalm 46:10) I’ve lived in a state of exhaustion for so long that it has become my new norm. While my day job will never be my life, having a high …
“You thrill me, Lord, with all You have done for me! I sing for joy because of what You have done.” (Psalm 92:4) On October 9, 2022, I embarked on a journey that would forever alter my life in ways I never could have imagined. In a blog entitled, “Here Am I. Send Me,” I …
“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. Remember what I …
“But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on Him, and by His wounds, we are healed.” (Isaiah 53:5) This past week, a lost 22-year-old man took the life of a 31-year-old Christian father, husband, and political activist for what would seem to …
“That the mirth of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment. Though the pride of the godless person reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds, he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’ Like a dream, …