I have worked and struggled so hard to be a "good Christian." I always felt I wasn't good enough, that God was always disappoi...

" Not the lovingest heart that ever beat can even reflect the length and breadth and depth and height of that love of God which shows i...

This is an excerpt from my favorite poem, about a glorious day in June, freely given for all to enjoy, just like God gives Himself to us fre...

There are many voices around us that tell us who we are, but why not go straight to the Source, the One who made us and holds us in His hear...

As we go through each day of our lives, He is working and bringing His life out in us and in our circumstances.  That is such a wonderful th...

I was thinking about the stories Jesus told in Luke 15 about the lost things...and how it had always bothered me that the lady searched for ...

I really liked this passage from an early letter by a Christian writing to explain our faith to a friend. This letter is thought to be from ...

" As no darkness can be seen by anyone surrounded by light, so no trivialities can capture the attention of anyone who has his eyes on ...

I love the law of liberty! Trying to live under the old law literally killed me in so many ways! I burned myself out trying to keep all the ...

He has always been and will always be about love. Love doesn't have anything to do with pressure, requirements, punishment, or vengeance...

Jesus raised me up with Him..He made death work backward into life, His own divine and eternal Life..instead of everything spiraling downwar...

  For so many years I saw God in a fear-based, religious way..to me He was a "Fear God."  I didn't even realize that this was ...

God looks beneath the surface actions and sees us all as little children just crying out for love! And He knows that His love will heal our ...

I have come to believe that  God is so happy with us right where we are on our journey, and that the way He shows each of us things is so pe...

Irenaeus of Lyons was an early Church Father who lived in the second century. He wrote an early creed or "rule of faith" that is m...

Can you hear Him?  I can imagine the voice of Jesus saying what I feel is the message of redemption to us:  “You’re not forgotten, you’re wa...

  All is well. Just remember, Everything is perfect. Nothing can go wrong In this beautiful place, This ocean of Grace. You are part of it. ...

Sometimes in the past it has been so hard to love myself, and I've been very hard on myself, treating myself badly and condemning myself...

  Love doesn't say "Submit to me in every way, surrender every hope and dream and desire you have, give everything to me to do with...

He is like an eagle carrying us on His strong back, so we are soaring ever higher on His swift wings, and we just keep going up with Him, no...

We are not under law but under grace.  Grace means God does it all, upholds it all.  It's His job, not ours.  God has saved us completel...

But what if you still find yourself having unloving and judgmental attitudes, even once you've experienced God's grace for yourself?...

  In Your Presence, O Lord: we find glory (Your good opinion of us) and honor, strength to get through anything, and gladness (1 Chron. 16:2...

I've found in my life that I can just admit that to God, that I don't feel like rejoicing but instead feel fearful or bitter and rot...