“Anyone who meets a testing challenge head-on and manages to stick it out is mighty fortunate. For such persons, loyally in love with God, the reward is life and more life.”James 1:12 MSGIsn’t it so rewarding when you finish a project, or have hit a goal you’ve been working towards? I’m not an “absolute live-by-a-list” […]

God isn’t late with his promise as some measure lateness. He is restraining himself on account of you, holding back the End because he doesn’t want anyone lost. He’s giving everyone space and time to change. 2 Peter 3:9 MSG I remember my mom telling me this morsel of wisdom: “God is rarely early but […]

“Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides.    You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely.    Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient […]

“So we’re not giving up. How could we! Even though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without his unfolding grace.    These hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming good times, the lavish […]

“Every time you cross my mind, I break out in exclamations of thanks to God.    There has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work in you would keep at it and bring it to a flourishing finish on the very day Christ Jesus appears.” Philippians 1:3, […]

So we’re not giving up. How could we! Even though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without his unfolding grace.     These hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming good times, the […]

 “People with their minds set on You, You keep completely whole..steady on their feet, because they keep at it and don’t quit.    Depend on God and keep at it because in the Lord God you have a sure thing. Those who lived high and mighty, He knocked off their horse.” Isaiah 26:1-3 MSG What […]

“People with their minds set on You, You keep completely whole…steady on their feet, because they keep at it and don’t quit.    Depend on God and keep at it because in the Lord God you have a sure thing. Those who lived high and mighty, He knocked off their horse.” Isaiah 26:1-3 MSG What […]

“Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides.    You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely.    Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, […]

“Don’t be misled: No one makes a fool of God. What a person plants, he will harvest. The person who plants selfishness, ignoring the needs of others—ignoring God!—harvests a crop of weeds. All he’ll have to show for his life is weeds! But the one who plants in response to God, letting God’s Spirit do […]