God’s Will – Household Words:

You Can Only Trust Your Heart Sometimes. Jeremiah 17:9.

Novelists wrestle with a constant struggle: how do you balance action with heart? Books and movies often open with car chases and gunfights, but it takes only a minute or two before audiences ask ‘Who am I supposed to root for? Why do I care about them? Who ARE these people?’ Action without heart feelsContinue reading “You Can Only Trust Your Heart Sometimes. Jeremiah 17:9.”

PRAY! 2 Kings 20:1-3; 1 Thessalonians 5:17.

Have you ever thought ‘Oh, well, it’s God’s will—God is going to do what God is going to do’? Are you tempted to think prayer won’t change anything, so why bother—as if God has already decided what He is going to do? THAT’S FALSE! What God has DECIDED is that PRAYER WORKS! What He hasContinue reading “PRAY! 2 Kings 20:1-3; 1 Thessalonians 5:17.”

YOU ARE THE POTTER; I AM THE CLAY. Isaiah 29:16; Romans 9:20-21.

God made you for a plan. What plan? Whose plan? His plan. He may reveal to you His plan. But He won’t change His plan. Is that unfair? What if you don’t like God’s plan? What if your plans are as good as His plans? That’s the wrong way to look at it. He knowsContinue reading “YOU ARE THE POTTER; I AM THE CLAY. Isaiah 29:16; Romans 9:20-21.”

Winners and Losers.

Pastor Gregg asked us to choose one word to explain who we were BEFORE Christ versus AFTER. I chose “loser.” I was a LOSER. I was bad at things, failed things, broke things, lost things, ruined things. I started late, quit early, did things with half-effort, and the results were bad: loser effort produced loserContinue reading “Winners and Losers.”