Tag: joy
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Take Your Medicine
What’s the biggest problem in your life? If you had a guarantee— an absolute 100% guarantee— that following a certain course of action would eliminate your problem after a year, but that following that course of action for a year would be pretty miserable, would you do it? Would you take the medicine?
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Counted Worthy
So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen. Matthew 20:16 I played basketball from 5th grade to 12th. I wasn’t the best player, but I was pretty good for a short white girl in a small town, and I was sometimes a starter. I loved being…
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God’s Mental Health Prescription
In the past, the standard Christian response to mental health issues was along these lines: you need to pray more you should have more faith focus on serving God and others and your depression will go away
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Pop Culture Gods
We’re so advanced. We know the sun is just a big ball of fire. We can understand why the ancients worshiped it, lacking the knowledge of astronomy that we have. But still. Seems a little silly now. Good thing we’re better enlightened.
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So Creative!
Praise the Lord from the heavens; praise Him in the heights! Praise Him, all His angels; praise Him, all His hosts! Praise Him, sun and moon; praise Him, all you stars of light! Praise Him, you heavens of heavens, and you waters above the heavens! Let them praise the name of the Lord, for He…
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Serving With Joy
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.Matthew 13:44 A while back I read a devotional that shook me a bit, convicting me with a lesson I truly…

