• Unreciprocated Kindness

    God expects us to be kind without conditions. To love our neighbors and our enemies. To treat others with kindness even when they don’t return the favor. To show unreciprocated kindness with our only motivation being to glorify God.  It would be great if our kindness was returned, but sometimes…

  • Protecting our relationships

    Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about relationships and how important it is to protect them.  Our relationship with God; with our spouse; with our children; with our family, friends and neighbors. The devil doesn’t want us to think about that. He wants to do all he can to convince…

  • We have all the power we need!

    “So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you…If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven…

  • Patient & kind

    Love is patient, love is kind.  (1 Corinthians 13:4) As I examined the first sentence of the love chapter, I reflected back on recent days of my own life. Have I been patient and kind? Well, right off the bat I know I could use a lot of refining in…

  • Lookin’ Good … On the inside

    Don’t be concerned about the outward beauty of fancy hairstyles, expensive jewelry, or beautiful clothes.  You should clothe yourselves instead with the beauty that comes from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is so precious to God.  1 Peter 3:3 & 4 NLT Your beauty…