Prayer Seed: Psalm 51:10
Prayer Seed: Dear Abba, Search my heart and remove anything in my life that doesn’t please You. Remove these things so I can be useful to You and do Your bidding. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Food for Thought: Aspiration vs. Inspiration
Aspiration is what we want to have happen––our hopes and goals. Inspiration is the incentive we have to try to get our hopes and goals accomplished. For example, if we want to photograph a beautiful sunrise, we will get up early, find the ideal spot, and set up our camera. Why we want a picture…
Reminders: “How’s that Working for You?”
The above is a question made famous by Dr. Phil McGraw of the Dr. Phil show on TV. When people are having problems in their relationships, he likes to ask how their strategy for getting along is working for them. Quite often the guest being interviewed suddenly has to admit that it is not working…
Reminders: Tolerance with Love
According to a traditional Hebrew story, Abraham was sitting outside his tent one evening when he saw an old man, weary from age and the journey, coming toward him. Abraham rushed out, greeted the man and invited him into his tent. There he washed the old man’s feet and gave him food and drink. The…
Food for Thought: Living in a Hectic World
I taught visual arts for many years, first to elementary-age school children and college students from the university who were completing certification to teach art. Later I taught classroom teachers learning to integrate the arts into their curricula. I always reminded teacher-education majors and in-service teachers that they are not just teaching their subject matter,…
Prayer Seed: Luke 18:1
Prayer Seed: Dear Abba, Thank you for the gift of prayer. Thank you for allowing us to have a personal relationship and conversations with You. Thank you for encouraging us to keep on praying persistently and not give up. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Prayer Seed: Matthew 12:36
Prayer Seed: Dear Abba, Please help me to speak with meaningful and positive words. Remind me to talk more about the good things instead of the negative things in my life. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Food for Thought: Broken Heart Syndrome
When a person dies within a short period of time after his or her spouse or other loved one has died, we will often hear someone say, “She or he died of a broken heart.” Now, medical researchers have found a way to actually measure the effects. They are able to measure how under extreme…
Reminders: Relationships
“Women worry that men will forget everything. Men worry that women will remember everything.” Yes, it’s a joke, but unfortunately, these kinds of perceptions are all too often perpetuated in our current culture where putting each other down is a common occurrence. We’ve all heard wives and husbands make pointed jokes at their spouses’ expense,…
Food for Thought: Can Love Really Conquer All?
Love is often misunderstood as something that “happens” between two people through a romantic attraction, or that love is a “closeness” felt among family members. That theory of love is very limited. The love of God is much broader. He has commanded us to love everyone. That seems impossible! We all know evil people who…