These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads….
“What can we do to perform the works of God?’ they asked. Jesus replied, “This is the work of God—that you believe in the one he has sent.” (John 6:28–29 CSB) We have been given a wonderful gift through Christ, yet we may feel we don’t deserve it. We may feel we need to work…
“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” ~Matthew 6:21 NIV Matthew 6:21 suggests that honor is primarily a matter of the heart and that a person’s heart is revealed through their actions. This has always been one of my favorite verses, and it was on my heart, so I searched more…
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr. “The Christmas trees were huge, all lined up close together with their branches touching each other. And she was just a tiny thing, barely able to walk!” The Christmas season isn’t complete…
My five-year-old daughter begins kindergarten this month. This means my cautious, anxiety-prone, oldest child starts a new adventure in a new school building with new friends and a new teacher. For the first time, she’ll be away from her little sister and away from me for six hours a day, five days a week. She…
Last year an image of a teenage boy standing at a flagpole alone made its way around the globe, the story garnering the attention of our nation. A high school junior had chosen to pray in front of his school all alone, in plain view of onlookers and passersby. One of those onlookers posted about…