High Heels vs. Tennis Shoes Some months ago, a friend came to pick me up. I opened the front door, she came in and paused, "What's with the high heels," she asked. "Why not?" "Because we'll be doing a lot of walking in those airports. You need comfortable shoes." She...
For the most part, the trail along the banks of the Crowe River near Mamora, Ontario, was wide and level, with plenty of ground between the edge of the trail and the edge of the river bank. There were places, however, where the trail narrowed and sloped towards the...
Do I pray too quick? Too long? Not enough words? Too many words? Is my heart in it? What is the correct way to pray? How much we labor in our prayer time has nothing to do with Labor Day. I just heard a pastor teach about this topic. And admittedly, a few of us...
My faith had once again been put to the test. With only half our staff left at work, we received a record number of new referrals. To make things worse, our internet stopped working for weather-related reasons. Then, just at bed time, my sump pump gave up the ghost,...
Genesis 19 records the sad story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. We know fromGenesis 18 that the day before, Abraham, concerned for his family in Sodom (seeGen. 19:29), interceded with the Lord on behalf of the city, and in the end, the Lord promised: "For...
"Goals for the new year? Are you kidding? My goal is just to survive another day," my friend said. Can you almost feel her heavy heart? It's a common thing. Facing a new year, new issues and a new future, uncertainty gnaws. We wonder about what tomorrow will bring....
Last Thursday, in "The Iron", Part 1, we saw that mountain-moving faith is this: In the same way we would never doubt that the iron will remove the wrinkles from the cloth, we must trust without doubt that God will keep His promises. We also saw that God doesn't...
"I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it would move. Nothing would be impossible." (Matt. 17:20 NLT) If you are anything like I am, you truly desire to have that...
The Bible is clear: "God is...not a human being, that he should change his mind." (Num. 23:19) Yet the Word of God records a very interesting story in 2 Kings 20 where it seems that God changed His mind: "About that time Hezekiah became deathly ill," (vs 1) Now...
"O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly; My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You, In a dry and weary land where there is no water." (Psalms 63:1) Food. A necessity of life. One we all require, one most of us enjoy, and one that a few of us think...