God’s Faithfulness is Love
| What Is Love series | God’s Love is Selfless God is for you. He will never leave you nor forsake you. His love for you is completely selfless. That’s who He is. In our last post, we saw that we need to know God as a person and who He is to know what …
The Definition of Love
| What Is Love series | What Is Love? How would you define love? I can only imagine how vastly different each person’s definition would be. Even as I looked at the definition in the dictionary, it was incredibly vague. The Bible, however, has a lot to say about love and gets very specific about …
Resting in Our Salvation
| Resting in Our Weakness series | In our last post I promised to share something God showed me that helped me see the gift of salvation in a whole new light as we finish this series on Resting in Our Weakness. It comes from the end of our passage in Matthew 11; in verse …
The Work and the Worry
| Resting in Our Weakness series | Last week we took a break from our series on rest for a special post for Mother’s Day. This week I’d like to pick up with the second in our series on Resting in Our Weakness. Humility vs. Meekness “Take My yoke upon you and learn from me, for I …
Happy Mothers Day
| Struggling to Conceive series | Our Story When Monica and I got married, we planned to wait a year before having kids, but apparently God had other plans. Abigail was born just 10 months after we got married, literally as soon as possible. Even Elijah was born just 14 months after Abigail. While the …
Yoked with Jesus
| Resting in Our Weakness series | Finding Rest “Come to me, all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28) That’s a promise I’d like to cash in on. But, how do we? It goes on to say, “My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” (Matthew 11:30) I …
God Hears Us
| The Power of Prayer series | Does God Hear Us? We saw last week that God desires to bring us closer. His voice has the power to change us for the better, but sin can cause us to hide our hearts from Him. In hiding our hearts, we are unable to hear His voice. …
Hearing God
| The Power of Prayer series | If you want to hear God more, let Him lead the conversation. Why Can’t I Hear Him? We all want to hear God’s voice. When I felt led to start this website, I wanted to be sure it’s what God wanted. So, I set aside time to take …
The Aim Is Love
Knowledge only becomes eternally significant when it inspires us to love better. As I was reading 1 Corinthians, I came across the familiar chapter on love. After strolling through the recognizable list of all the things love is and isn’t, I was surprised to find a verse I’ve read many times: “as for knowledge, it …