Tag Archives: pain

I’ve been in Scotland for almost two weeks now which is long enough to be comfortable telling people “Heya” when greeting them and “Cheers” when leaving a shop, and calling a store a shop.  I’m still not used to bins (garbage cans), toilets (bathrooms), boots (trunks of cars), having to flip an ...

King David’s life had two sides. He was a warrior, chosen by God to rule when he was a lowly shepherd boy with several impressive older brothers. He lived with God’s favor on his life for many of his years, and today he is still known as “a man after ...

It’s not just negative emotions or experiences that make a person want to end their life. It’s Satan, and he is attacking Christian men and women. Although he doesn’t deserve any more attention than he is already getting, we need to be prepared by guarding our hearts and watching out ...

Fortunately, I do not have many physical scars. There’s a small one near my left wrist that is the result of a bad burn I received when I was young. The worst one, though, is the one on my bottom lip. For some reason, that particular scar possesses a bluish-purplish ...

Triumphant living does not always have the ring-tone we long to hear.  Yet as Oswald Chambers says, “There is no majestic vitality and power of God in ‘suffering the will of the Lord.’ ”  So, when life feels less than majestically alive and powerful, how do we align our reality ...