Put God First (Because No One Likes to Come in Second)
Joanne would have been happy to win second place in 5th grade. But as adults, second place doesn’t really feel like a prize… So why do we offer God second place in our lives?
Finding Comfort in Jesus When Your Heart Is Broken
Finding comfort in Jesus works because only the Creator of our hearts can put the pieces back together again. Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in…
3 Ways Christian Introverts Can Love Like Jesus
Do you ever feel intimidated by the call to love your neighbors? If so, you are definitely not alone. In this post, Joanne shares three ways Christian introverts can love like Jesus. If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. Luke 6:32 (NIV)…
When Our Adult Children No Longer Believe
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9 (NIV) I will share a secret with all of you. I hide my adult children’s posts on social media. Sometimes it is easier…
Is It Time to Check Your Temperature?
I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm – neither hot nor cold- I am about to spit you out of my mouth. Revelation 3: 15-16 (NIV) It has been said ad nauseam from one well-meaning Christian to…
What Do You Do When Disappointments Seem to Outweigh the Blessings?
Blessings & Disappointments Therefore, we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what…
Beyond the Thorn
To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power…
