There’s something I love about watching a person take something that looks worthless, damaged, or common and turn it into something beautiful, whether it’s Joanna Gaines restoring houses in the show “Fixer Upper,” people who are able to turn someone else’s old junk into a cute vintage piece for their…
God’s wholehearted desire for us Satisfied: “pleased or content with what has been experienced or received.” At Peace: “freedom from disquieting or oppressive thoughts or emotions” Dissatisfaction and Anxieties of Life Last week after getting some things done at Caribou I walked into the parking lot to find another car…
After my first post for this year, “Known. Loved. Empowered,” I wanted to continue the theme of adjectives that define us as we follow Christ. This serves as a reminder of what God’s vision and desire is for each of us. Not as a perfect measure to compare ourselves to…
“To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved… is what we need more than anything.” –Timothy Keller Whether we are loved because we are pretending to be someone who we…
Many of us have probably been asked the question, “If you had one day left to live what would you do?” I think we find this so interesting because it shows us what someone values most. If we knew we were about to die we would live with a…
Isaiah 61 The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our…
“Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible—and everything that is illuminated becomes a light.” –Ephesians 5:11-14 I love how easy that sounds to defeat darkness. It…
As I was looking ahead to Thanksgiving and thinking about writing this post I decided I wanted to try to be more thankful throughout the day. I would start listing things throughout the day that I was thankful for, a beautiful sunrise, a comfortable bed etc. I found that after…
Endurance is an important part of any Christian’s life. To endure is to persist and hold our ground when something stressful or hard comes our way. It means facing hard situations even when they expose our weaknesses. Enduring isn’t dependent on whether hard things come our way—that’s inevitable. The…
Desires Drive Our Fear To fear is to let our lives be controlled by something else besides God. When we want to be in control and know things may not turn out the way we want them to, we fear and we worry. There are many things we worry about,…
