Do you like yourself better when you are in a certain mood than other? I, for example, like myself better when I feel compassionate toward my children than anger. When I do get angry with them, it’s usually not because they have harmed me in some way. But it’s usually when they act in such […]

I know I don’t seem like the type, but I have constant fights with one person. I fight with this person almost daily, sometimes several times a day, and I’ve been doing so ever since we met. Sometimes the fight becomes so fierce that I want to leave this person for good. And I must admit […]

Ecclesiastes 7:29–See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.  I remember in college while studying psychology, the argument of “nature vs. nurture” was probably the biggest dilemma we had to debate.  Not being a Christian at the time, I just related to my experience growing up, […]

Have you thanked God for NOT giving you what you want? Getting what we want could actually be a curse from God. If we are bent on getting something, God may give it to us, but it will work to our disadvantage rather than advantage. “But they had a wanton craving in the wilderness, and […]

1 John 3:11-13–For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 12 We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous. Because I […]

Do you have a mission bigger than yourself? That phrase, “A mission bigger than yourself’ has been dancing around in my head now for a few weeks. It is synonymous with “calling.” Do you know your calling? Do you live to accomplish a mission bigger than yourself? If you don’t, then you, like everyone else, […]

“I don’t want to leave the earth. I just want to leave myself!” Have you ever had such a thought? What I mean by “leaving myself” is a disdain for the self such that I want to be someone else. “I wish I were someone else,” expresses a similar sentiment. I think I’m past blaming everyone […]

Romans 12:19-21-Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” 20 To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals […]

You cannot add to your faith, but you can supplement it. It is through faith in Jesus alone that saves. But this saving faith is not alone. It is accompanied by good works and changed lives. And although we cannot work to get faith, once we got it, we must work it out. But what […]

1 Chronicles 28:4-Yet the Lord God of Israel chose me from all my father’s house to be king over Israel forever. For he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah my father’s house, and among my father’s sons he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel. As a […]