Category Archives: christian living

Reading this morning in Philippians 2. The footnotes say…Jesus was humble, willing to give up His rights in order to obey God. So, I paused there for a minute and thought about His rights. Rights…we are so often shouting about ours in many different forms. That’s a pretty big deal to surrender your rights. ThenContinueContinue reading “Deity”

Freedom is found in us believing the truth about ourselves not in others recognizing it. Freedom from proving anything to anyone about our character and worth. Freedom in knowing we don’t need recognition from even one person to validate the truth of our character and worth .

During an educational presentation this past week for work, an illustration was used involving an iceberg. Everyone attending works in victim advocacy and we have had a wealth of instruction the past three weeks involving the evolution of laws, legal process with regard to victims, servicing victims including bias and ethics. So with the iceberg,ContinueContinue reading “Lessons From an Iceberg”

“Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor.” Ezekiel 28:17 Lucifer apparently became so impressed with his own beauty, intelligence, power, and position that he began to desire for himself the honor and glory that belonged to God alone. The sin that corrupted Lucifer wasContinueContinue reading “On Account of Your Beauty…”

Neutralize:  render something ineffective or harmless by applying the opposite force or effect; disarm. Reading in Luke 4 this morning about the enemy tempting Jesus in the wilderness.  He questioned His identity saying “if” you are the Son of God, and then enticed Jesus to act on His own will to remedy a situation inContinueContinue reading “Neutralize”

We plead our requests, a list of needs and wants that we have determined for our lives and even others. We wait in expectation for God to deliver exactly what we’ve asked for like a genie to make our wishes come true. None of this taking a laundry list of our desires to make ourContinueContinue reading “He’s Not a Delivery Man”

This was on my flip calendar last week and it has been on my mind since. This was Mary’s response to the angel that informed her that she would conceive and give birth to Jesus. Young, unmarried and given a purpose from God that could bring her and her fiance’ shame and disgrace in humanContinueContinue reading “Let It Be To Me…”

When I started the car to leave work, in Christ Alone began to play on the radio. I smiled and began to soak in every lyric-it’s one of my favorite songs. By the time the end of the song played–you guessed it, puddles in my eyes.                                 The song ends… ’til He returns or calls meContinueContinue reading “In Christ Alone”

We will never find joy and contentment as long as we are the center of our world. As long as we spend our lives on ourselves; as long as we attend church looking to get something out of it for us; as long as we read the Bible with us as the main character; asContinueContinue reading “The Life We Say We Want”

Can we just take some time to dispel the lie that broken is bad?? That it’s shameful or unattractive or somehow discounting?? That we need to retreat, hide and cover with pretense???The truth is we need to be broken. We need to fall from our high horse, from our pedestals, from our posing. We needContinueContinue reading “Broken Is Not Necessarily Bad”