No Carb Bread
Our culture is replete with specialized diets to enhance our health. Most recommend limiting carbohydrate intake. One of the tastiest delivery systems of carbs is bread! And I’m told limiting or eliminating bread is rather difficult. Good News! There is bread that has ONLY beneficial properties – to our bodies AND our souls. When we […]
Help Complete the Puzzle
Growing up, we often worked on a jigsaw puzzle around the holidays. Family, and even visitors contributed time and effort toward the completion. A lost piece or the wag of a dog’s tail hitting the edge of the table, would send us scrambling for the missing pieces. That image came to mind recently as our […]
A Heavenly Pharmacy
God’s promises are an inexhaustible source of wealth. They are an ointment for painful wounds, a remedy for heartbreak, encouragement for a discouraged spirit. Charles Spurgeon likens them to “a heavenly pharmacy.” What a picture this presented to me. Imagine a pharmacy, in the natural, that is fully stocked—every ointment, all supplements, multiple analgesics for […]
A New Vantage Point
Sometimes it’s hard to have vision when you’re surrounded by difficulties on every side, but that’s why faith is critical to our journeys as believers. Just look at the story of Gehazi, Elisha’s servant, in the book of 2 Kings 6:11-19 (NASB). The king of Aram was intent on capturing Elisha, so he sent “horses […]
Which Direction Are You Looking?
Have you ever tried to navigate your life while looking in a rearview mirror? Have you ever wanted to improve your present circumstances and have a hopeful future, yet your gaze is obsessed with the failures and frustrations of the past? The Bible warns against this. “Let your eyes look directly ahead,” Solomon writes, “and […]