The saddest place a person can be is a place void of God. A place where the vitality of the work of redemption accomplished on the cross at Calvary has eluded the mind. A place saturated with the presence of self instead of the dominance of the Holy Spirit.

I grew up eating only organic food because the world around me was not as industrialized as it is now. It’s been years since then, and I still have difficulty adjusting to non-organic food tastes. While in terms of food, God has blessed humanity with the wisdom to maximize our available resources to combat hunger, I still like organic better because my mouth has tasted its goodness.

Positive thinking is an idea filtered through the lens of mankind. It emphasizes the ability to believe and speak your beliefs into existence. Although it tries to mirror the positivity of the Christian faith, it is nothing like what the Bible teaches. While a positive thinking ideology promotes following one's heart…

My life has certainly not always been a bed of roses, but neither has the life of anyone I know. I’ve not always made the right choices, and I don’t know anyone who has either. You work through Earth’s roads, toiling to make ends meet, and you dare not blink; otherwise, you might lose it all.

We enjoy honey from bees, but bees also sting. Also, water is a source of life, but it can also take life, and fire is necessary for human sustenance and can also destroy. We cook and even warm our homes with fire, but we know not to stick our fingers in it; otherwise, it will burn them.

People say life is precious, but how do we determine what ‘precious’ means? It is a relative word that can be interpreted differently. What is precious to one person might not be to another.

What does it mean “To know?” The phrase is so loosely used that even things that fall under guessing pass for “I know!” Knowing is a giant leap from what we think to what we know. It rides above the train of confusion and cannot be moved by innuendos.

Thinking about the complexity of humanity, the conflicts, divisions, and confusion, the simplicity of following Christ is the single choice in life that gives it meaning. People make choices that seem impossible for our mortal minds to fathom daily, yet we don’t question the authenticity of their human nature.

I feel a profound urgency for all Christians to awaken and live as God intends them to live: as warriors. Life is not just a series of tasks between waking and sleeping. Our lives have a singular purpose: to live for Jesus. He should be the reason behind all our actions and decisions.

In case you’ve not noticed, I love Jesus and love to talk about Him. While I wish everyone knew the depth of His love as I do, my love for Him is personal. If you’ve been where I’ve been and seen what I’ve seen, then you’ll know that life does not exist outside of Him.

While unpacking a box, we found a Bible I used a few decades ago. As soon as I saw it, I knew it. It was a close friend I had carried with me for some years. I can remember sitting on my bed reading it and flipping the pages at Church to where the preacher guides. Seeing the compact blue Bible in my husband’s hand almost brought me to tears...

There is no such thing as common sense in our world anymore. Simple innate reasonings are now clouded and convoluted with human erroneous suppositions. To be wise, we must look through the lens through which God sees things and listen with ears tuned to the frequency of Heaven.

At the time I’m writing this, I am feeling overwhelmed. I can’t say why or what the cause is, but my heart longs for that quiet space where the rhythm lines up with God. Do I have too much on my life’s plate, or am I doing too much too soon? I don’t know. I’ve committed my life to God’s hands…

Naturally, what you spend the most time on determines what your life looks like. You can’t spend time learning how to fish when you intend to become a great golfer or roll in the dumpster and expect to smell like roses. Also, you can’t be heading to Heaven and spend so much time in places that do not glorify your destination.

The questions people wrestle with the most are, “How can God love the world with all the mess in it, and how can He die for unworthy people?” Although our mortal minds can never fathom the depth of God’s love for humanity, we can experience it by accepting the gift of redemption through the death of Christ on the cross.

If you are an adult, consider your favorite elementary school classroom. Remember your class teacher and classmates and the long hours you spend with them every weekday. It was like a season of life that would go on forever. Like me, you may have met a few best friends there and kept them through the years. Now, think of possibly getting everyone in your classroom together in one room again.

When the nurses handed me my daughter and I saw her in the delivery room, I was overwhelmed with gratitude and love. Looking at her face and feeling her delicate body was scary, yet it sent tingles through me. I had no idea how to clean a tiny human, let alone raise one. However, almost two decades later, God’s Word…

As our faith foundation shifts, our beliefs and proclamations risk being muddled and diluted by our human limitations. Our lives must bear witness to God’s goodness, and our navigation as we journey through life should be a testament to the saving grace of the cross of Christ. If we truly believe in Jesus' saving power, it should flow as easily as each breath from our lungs.

My Dad loved country music and often listened to Jimmy Reeves, Kenny Rogers, and other Country legends. Although it’s been decades since I was a child in my parents’ home, if I hear Jimmy Reeves’s voice singing on the radio, it will send my heart pumping faster, transporting me back to my childhood.

God is trustworthy, and His promises are the bedrock on which we flourish and the air with which we ride on the wings of hope. Without them, there is no faith, and Christianity would be an empty box. God’s promises cover all that pertains to the life and godliness of His children. Our journey starts with the promise of forgiveness…