A Biblical Counseling Series #3 Have you ever been left home by your parents with a list of chores to do before they return? I remember one Saturday morning when my parents went grocery shopping. Each of my siblings and I had a room to clean, but we knew we had several hours. We spent …
Defining Expectations
Study #2 in the Biblical Counseling Series Defining Expectations A Biblical Counseling Series Early in our marriage, I found myself very frustrated with my husband’s inability to see the overflowing trash can. Growing up in my house, my stepdad always took out the trash. It never occurred to me that my husband would not relish …
Grieve the Thorns
In my mind, I can still picture the room in the far corner of my heart stuffed to the brim with the pain and sorrow of undealt with hurts. Anytime a new grief would surface, it would be shoved back into that room, sometimes with great difficulty. Until the door just would not shut anymore, …
One Generation to the Next
Photo by gdtography on Pexels.com A parade of green marched along the crosswalk as people celebrated the Irish holiday of St. Patrick’s Day. Luck, Leprechauns, and Liquor mark this day, but St. Patrick was a missionary to Ireland. He brought the Gospel of Jesus to a land filled with superstition and witchcraft. (Read more here.) …
Help, Lord! I’ve done it again.
Have you ever assumed God must have given His approval to something simply because it seemed to fit so nicely into your plans? Zeal without God’s clear direction usually ends in disaster. Such was my dilemma this week, as I charged ahead with a project without checking to see if this was His plan …
What Do You Know For Sure?
“I am sorry to tell you that the results say you only have six months to live.” “The test is positive. Your situation is incurable. Let’s talk about how we can manage it now.” “Years of skipping annual check-ups have led us to a point of no return. There is nothing we can do now.” …
Treasure’s Folly
A fleet of yachts sits atop the blue-green waters of the sea surrounding the Bahamas. Beneath them, an army of scuba divers painstakingly sift through dead coral and sand searching for lost treasures sunk over three hundred years ago when a Spanish ship, the Maravilla, carried over six hundred souls to eternity. Many of those …
Another Jesus
Another jesus is masquerading as the Jesus of the Bible. This false jesus overlooks the murder of innocent babies in the womb. He understands and allows for the reasons people murder others in the name of their own rights. He loves without any call to repentance or righteousness. This masquerading jesus accepts what happens in …
Discontent
It started small, This tiny rage, That built a fire Then burst ablaze. To now engulf The gifts once held, Leaving ashes With an empty shell. James 1:14-17But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when …
True Love
It was the shoes that I remember. Piles upon piles of shoes no longer needed by their murdered owners. Our tour of the Holocaust museum in Israel fell right after our tour of Golgotha and the empty tomb. The reality of what God’s love cost Him had never looked rawer than it did to me …
His Song in the Night 