What a powerful message! (Please listen to it.) Credit to Pastor Rick
"Don't live to make good impressions on others. Don't do anything from a cheap desire to boast. Stop twitting your perfect life. Because it is a great temptation on internet to make yourself appear better than you are. Never let my pride be my guide." -Pastor Rick Warren
You Are the Object of God’s Love
“For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son so that anyone who believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16 TLB). God loves you so much that he sent Jesus on a mission of love with a message of love. The Bible doesn’t say God has love; it says... Continue Reading →
Surrender Your Defense to God
“You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies” (Psalm 23:5 NIV). King David knew what it meant to be attacked emotionally, verbally, and physically. As a young man, he was anointed by the Prophet Samuel to be the next king of Israel, but Saul was still king. Even though David served him... Continue Reading →
You’ve Got to Let Yourself Grieve
The LORD is close to the brokenhearted, and he saves those whose spirits have been crushed” (Psalm 34:18 NCV). Every change we experience in life includes loss, because you give up something old to get something new. And there’s no loss without pain, and there is no pain without grief.Grief is not bad. It’s the way... Continue Reading →
You Will Not Change without Community
“Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, so it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other” (Romans 12:4-5 NLT). You will not make all the changes you need to make, want to make, would love to make, plan... Continue Reading →
Wisdom Shows Mercy, Not Judgment
“But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere” (James 3:17 NIV). Do you jump on people every time they make a blunder? Do you ever let people go, or do you keep hounding them about their mistakes? Do you... Continue Reading →
God’s Path to Blessing: Study His Word
“Blessed is the one . . . whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither—whatever they do prospers” (Psalm 1:1-3 NIV). The... Continue Reading →
More Gratitude Means Less Stress
“In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you” (1 Thessalonians 5:18 NKJV). I used to think that life was a series of hills and valleys. I thought we faced good times and bad times, and they didn’t intermix.But that’s not how life works. There’s no time... Continue Reading →
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