Tag Archives: victory

Have you considered your heart lately? How about your emotions and your thinking powers? Like a physical checkup with your doctor, it can be tempting to put off a spiritual checkup to see what is going on inside. But just as it can be dangerous to put off a physical ...

The word counterfeit invokes images of phony money; money manufactured by criminals in dark basement rooms. And there is good reason to think of currency when thinking of counterfeiting. Since the days of the Civil War, U.S. currency has been imitated by many a counterfeiter. Counterfeiting in the 1860’s was ...

I am impressed today to let someone, maybe many “someones”, know that God is not mad at you.  He loves you.  Yes, you. Now don’t start listing all the ways that you have fallen short.  Your enemy, the devil, is attempting to distract you from the truth God wants you ...

The cake was perfectly iced and sprinkled with coconut. There it sat on our pantry shelf when the doorbell rang.  My mother headed to the door to see who was calling, leaving me alone in the kitchen while she talked briefly to the unexpected visitor. At age four, I could not resist ...

“Whew! I’m not as young as I used to be,” I panted after running down the hall after a three-year-old this morning. Today, I returned to the classroom as a teacher for the first time in over 20 years. What a challenge! In my younger years, I was a full ...