by admin | Oct 6, 2024 | Trust, Worry
We live in Western North Carolina which experienced a significant amount of devastation from Hurricane Helene. Although our home and immediate area is fine, the devastation around us is traumatizing. I lived for 23 years in South Florida, and during that time, we went...
by admin | May 16, 2022 | Christian Perfection, Discipleship, Doubt, Fear, Love, Trust, Worry
In their song, Oh My Soul, Casting Crowns sings, “There is a place where fear must face the God you know.” There are two parts to this line which aptly apply to the fear we see around us in 2022 … or the fear we have within us. There is still a large number of...
by admin | Mar 6, 2015 | Doubt, Faith, Following Christ, Trust
The Old Testament is full of amazing miracles. One of the miracles that catches my attention again and again is the parting of the Red Sea. I read this part of the exodus of the people of Israel from Egypt and scratched my head wondering why they refused to believe...
by admin | Feb 27, 2015 | Following Christ, Trust
Several weekends back I went through a particularly difficult and troubling time, complete with a trial of my faith. The words of Job 13:15 reverberated through my mind, “Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. Nevertheless I will argue my ways before Him.” I took out...
by admin | Oct 22, 2014 | Trust
John 6:10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand. Exodus 14:13 But Moses said to the people, “Do not fear! Stand by and see the salvation of the LORD which He will accomplish...
by admin | Oct 22, 2014 | Trust
1 Corinthians 13:13 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love. “Hope springs eternal,” wrote Alexander Pope. There is good reason for Pope’s statement. Hope is “that in which one confides or to which he flees for refuge;...