Tag Archives: bitterness

It is easy to harden our hearts.  We start thinking it’s safer to be seasoned and tough–thick skin will protect us from being hurt or feeling pain in the future.  It makes sense, right?  If we toughen up, then the pain, rejection and injustices won’t sting as much next time.  It’s a struggle, a ...

Paul warned the believers in Ephesus that they must, “not give a place to the devil.” Satan is looking for opportunities to gain a foothold in our lives. He, “ … walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour,” (1 Peter 5:8). One of the ways that we give ...

“If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”  (2 Chronicles 7:14) Earlier this week I spoke about two little words “If you” ...

“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”(John 8:32). The Emancipation Proclamation, ready to be signed, needed the president’s signature. However, Abraham Lincoln wasn’t ready. He had spent the entire morning shaking hands with bystanders. Later, Lincoln noticed his writing hand became red and swollen. ...

The bell dismissing us from lunch was moments from sounding as my friends and I strolled past the art display case in front of the main doors to the school. As I continued in conversation, a piece of paper creased from its folded note form was tacked above the bottom ...