Love and encouragement from an imperfect mom and her fun teen daughters. We welcome you to live life with us.
Without surrendering to God’s discipline (through suffering) we cannot fully serve him. Those who resent and resist their suffering deny the glory they could have brought God. Unless we acknowledge that God has a right to discipline us, and we give him thanks during our pain, we waste our suffering and likely prolong it. If … Read more Surrendered Suffering Creates Power to Serve God
While God calls us to forgive others, he does not call us to reconcile with everyone. In fact, God calls us to shun so-called “believers” who continue to hurt us without remorse or repentance (Matt. 18:17.) But what do we do about people who hurt us and do say, “I’m sorry,” but then they hurt … Read more Forgiveness or Detachment?
Even if people do not call you bad names based upon your sins and weaknesses (as I described in last week’s post “Not Your Name,”) they may speak your name with such contempt that you can tell they only see you based upon your past weaknesses or sin. They have come to view your name … Read more Redeemed Name
… past sins don’t identify you The enemy calls us cruel names and identifies us by our sins and weaknesses, while God calls us by our redeemed and esteemed self. When we hear names like Rahab or Thomas, do we call them “Rahab the Prostitute” or “Doubting Thomas”? Let’s look into Scripture and see what … Read more Not Your Name