Emotions Aren’t Meant to Define Us

Emotions can be a beautiful, complex thing. God created us with emotions but because of sin, emotions are tainted and can’t always be trusted. Now, emotions aren’t necessarily wrong. God created us to think and feel. After all, Jesus experienced emotions! He wept, became angry, had a heart full of compassion, and was moved to …

Love the Lord Your God

(Photo credit: my mom.) What does it mean to put God first? Matthew 22:37 clearly states that we are to love the Lord our God with all our hearts, souls, and minds, but what does that mean? How can we put God first in a world that pulls us in every direction? I was thinking …

What 1 Kings 20 Taught Me about Humility

I was reading 1 Kings 20 awhile ago, and something in the passage really struck me. In the story, an enemy king (quite intimidating. He had 32 other kings with him) was coming against Ahab and the Israelites. God promised that He would give the enemy into the hands of the Israelites. Exactly what Ahab …

All Things New

(Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com) “Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” Isaiah 43:19 is a promise from God to His people that things won’t always stay the same in our lives. During …

You Shall Have No Other Gods

It’s hard to imagine worshiping an idol, right? Especially if you are a Christian, worshiping an idol is probably far from your mind. As sinners, we don’t perfectly uphold the Ten Commandments as given in Exodus Chapter 20, but I bet most of us don’t single handedly bow down and worship a statue either. Maybe …