How to Avoid Emotional Bankruptcy

How to Avoid Emotional Bankruptcy

Proverbs 25:28 “Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who lacks self-control” (NIV).  It is not enough to acknowledge the presence of negative emotions or even understand why they exist.  We must take action.  If we don’t, negative emotions will take...
Lord of all … or Not Lord at all!

Lord of all … or Not Lord at all!

Colossians 3: 23 “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.”  A woman was at work when the...
Storm Survival

Storm Survival

As they sailed, he fell asleep. A squall came down on the lake, so that the boat was being swamped, and they were in great danger. The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we’re going to drown!” He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters;...
Believing God in the Hard Times

Believing God in the Hard Times

Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to...
But I’m Afraid to Be Real

But I’m Afraid to Be Real

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 (NIV) “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from...