Faith, Love, and Thankfulness

How often do you give thanks for the people in your life? Are you thankful you have family, friends, co-workers, and disciples you attend church with? Is your faith growing in Jesus Christ? Is your love for the people in your life increasing? Are you seeing them as Jesus sees them? We often take peopleContinue reading “Faith, Love, and Thankfulness”

Continual Learning

Do you like to teach or instruct others? Do you like to learn, seeking to become a better you? Are you a reader, someone who always has a book or two that you are reading? Are you patient when teaching others? Are you willing to correct someone tactfully, yet firmly? Instructing, teaching, and correcting othersContinue reading “Continual Learning”

Build Your Faith

How easily do you trust? Is your starting point to trust people until they prove they are untrustworthy? Or is your starting point to be skeptical until someone proves they are trustworthy? Have you done something that sounded crazy because your trusted the person who told you to do it? Trust can be tricky. WeContinue reading “Build Your Faith”

Doubt and Faith

Do you believe in things you cannot see? Do you find it hard to believe in something if you have no proof? Do you trust in someone you have never met? Do you trust they have your best interest at heart? How does your belief and trust affect your hope? Believing and trusting in someoneContinue reading “Doubt and Faith”

A Green Olive Tree

Do you continue to grow? Are you flourishing in life? Are you blooming where you are planted? Or are you stunted? Are you stagnant? Are you dormant, waiting for something to awaken you? Do you want to grow? Do you want to flourish? Do you want to feel alive and bloom? It has been saidContinue reading “A Green Olive Tree”

Boast In Hope

How do you view hope? What is your perspective of hope? Do you view hope as nothing more than a wish? Do you treat it as wishful thinking? Is your hope more than that? Is it a trust in a promise that you believe will come true? Many people use hope to mean wish. TheyContinue reading “Boast In Hope”

Peace of Jesus

Are you tired of always feeling anxious? Do you worry about almost everything? Do wish the chaos of the world would stop? Do want things to calm down? Does the busyness drain you? Are you tired of being tired? Would you love to have some peace? The upheaval in our world can cause us greatContinue reading “Peace of Jesus”

Share Wisdom

Do you wish people would listen to you? Do you want to share your knowledge and wisdom with others? How are you seeking to share your wisdom? Are you willing to change your means of communication? Are you willing to follow God’s way rather than your own? As we grow older, we have a desireContinue reading “Share Wisdom”

Salvation Has Come

How are you feeling today? Are you holding on to Jesus Christ? Are you holding on to God? Do you attribute your salvation to him? Do you know you are strengthened by him? Have you taken stock of your standing with God? Will you give him the credit due him? How we feel can changeContinue reading “Salvation Has Come”

Deep Roots

Have you thought of being poor as being blessed? Have you thought being hungry was a blessing? Have you thought weeping meant a blessing? I dare say not many, if any at all, would think any of these are a blessing. We likely think of them as a lack of blessing, if not a curse.Continue reading “Deep Roots”