Ohio State’s football team defended their status as the 2025 national champions when they defeated the number 1-ranked Texas Longhorns to start the new season on August 30, 2025. To prepare his team for the year following their championship, coach Ryan Day had his team read, Chop Wood Carry Water: How to Fall in Love with the…
Prayer Seed: Dear Abba, Please help me to be humble and not prideful. Thank you for helping me to be more like You. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Feeling and expressing thankfulness involves an emotional response to something positive that has happened or relief that something bad or difficult has passed. Other words for “thankful” include grateful, appreciative, and indebted. “Grateful” implies a strong, deep sense of appreciation, while “appreciative” emphasizes happiness about something good. “Indebted” suggests a feeling of owing someone for a favor,…
Prayer Seed: Dear Abba, Please help me to be humble and not prideful. Please guide my steps so that I listen to You and not the bad temptations that come my way. I need to always place my trust in You and not think highly of myself. Thank you for Your guidance and knowing what…
According to Wikipedia, negligence is a failure to act responsibly or reasonably to prevent foreseeable harm to others or one’s self, which can be an act or a failure to act. It often involves carelessness or a thoughtless failure to act when a reasonable person would have acted to protect others or himself or herself from…
Prayer Seed: Dear Abba, I want to serve You and serve others so that Your will is done, and You can be glorified. If I start to feel like my service isn’t being appreciated, please guide me back to having a good attitude of giving selflessly and be grateful for the joy that comes from…
The word “grief” is usually used to describe losing someone you love due to death, divorce, or separation. Similar feelings often surface after a major life change such as job loss or a disaster such as a damaging flood or fire. The ache inside can feel as if your soul is being crushed under the…
Prayer Seed: Dear Abba, I ask for Your guidance so that throughout each day, I seek You and work to put You first in my life. Thank you for meeting my needs and blessing me with Your love. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
We speak of someone having “a bitter pill to swallow”. This can refer to a physical pill that has a bitter taste, or it might describe something that has caused a person to feel hurt or resentful about something they perceive as an injustice or betrayal. A bitter person might have feelings of disappointment, anger…
Prayer Seed: Dear Abba, Thank you for the gift of faith and that I can have salvation and blessed assurance in You just by believing and not by what I have done. Please help me to live through my beliefs in You and not by earthly, tangible things. I want to live by believing what…