I probably read something of Charles Spurgeon almost everyday. This man was called the Prince of Preachers and was a pastor of a megachurch in England in the mid nineteenth century long before the word megachurch was known. He suffered greatly with health and depression issues throughout his forty year ministry. I have rarely found in one person such sound theology and such a tender, empathetic … [Read more...] about Some Good Thoughts to Ponder by Charles Spurgeon
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No Itinerary For A Broken Path
It is by no means enough to set out cheerfully with your God on any venture of faith. Tear into smallest pieces any itinerary for the journey which your imagination may have drawn up. Nothing will fall out as you expect. Your guide will keep to no beaten path. He will lead you by a way such as you never dreamed your eyes would look on. He knows no fear and He expects you to fear nothing while … [Read more...] about No Itinerary For A Broken Path
The Struggle of Wanting to Be Someone Else
Have you ever wished you were someone else? I have struggled tremendously this year with wishing I was someone else as a speaker. If I am funny, it is not because humor just rolls of my tongue. I have agonized over wishing the Lord had not called me to such serious subjects like jealousy or forgiveness. Those subjects can be hard for women to face. I have wished that I was anyone but … [Read more...] about The Struggle of Wanting to Be Someone Else
A Chance to Obey
I L.O.V.E. love! I never went through a stage growing up when I believed boys had cooties. Most of my daydreams as a young girl centered around who I would marry one day. I made lists of my name ending with my latest crush's last name as mine written out on notebook paper or in the diary that I kept as an older tween/young teen. I always anticipated sharing life with my knight in shining … [Read more...] about A Chance to Obey
A Lesson in Favoritism
God's Word is limitless in its ability to transform me and to open my eyes to what I was blind to before. He has a way of stepping all over my toes. One of the most dynamic discussions my pilot group had this summer was concerning the devastation caused by favoritism in our families. There is hardly a more fertile place for bitterness and an inability to forgive to grow than in this area. If … [Read more...] about A Lesson in Favoritism
How Do I Amaze Him?
AMAZE: 1) to wonder, wonder at, marvel 2) to be wondered at, to be had in admiration to wonder; by implication, to admire:-admire, have in admiration, marvel, wonder. What was Jesus amazed by? How does one move the heart of the King of angels? There are only two instances in which the gospels tell me that Jesus was amazed by someone's actions. And no, His amazement did not come over the … [Read more...] about How Do I Amaze Him?
