Have the growing number of candles on your birthday cake given you pause? While we may have passed the stage where adding years to our age causes us to beam with pride, every year is a gift. Whatever your age, may these Bible verses on aging encourage you. The Hope of the Elderly “He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age” (Ruth 4:15 NIV). “Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will Continue Reading
The Secret to Glorifying God {Recharge Wednesday}
Looking at others around me, I find it easy to assume they’re God-glorifying because of what great people they are. Sometimes I want to ask, “what’s your secret?” I don’t feel like I’m good at glorifying God. I mean to praise the Lord, but I end up assessing what could be better instead. I wish I spoke to God's glory all the time, but often I say things that just don’t need to be said. The list goes on. And on. When it comes down to it, I want to share God’s glory. But I fail, a Continue Reading
Standing for the Right to Worship {The Atlanta Journal-Constitution}
In 1789, James Madison, who later became the fourth president of the United States, introduced 12 amendments to the First Congress, 10 of which would become the “Bill of Rights.” These amendments, defined in the Magna Carta, contain rights considered fundamental to America’s peace, liberties, and prosperity. The First Amendment provides that Congress cannot make laws respecting any religious establishments or prohibiting its free exercise. Likewise, it protects freedom of speech, the press, Continue Reading
Know Jesus and Make Him Known {Recharge Wednesday LINKUP}
How can we know Jesus more intimately? During my early years of being a Christ-follower, I missed an important aspect of the Christian life. Christ not only desires I know Him as Savior and Lord, but also that I continue to grow in knowing Him more intimately on a daily basis. Because this is the only way to let Christ live in and through my life, and for others to see Jesus in me. Eventually, this became my mission statement for my speaking, writing, and blogging Continue Reading
‘Help Is Here’ – Max Lucado’s New Book (Interview & Column for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
“The Spirit is the dove of peace who calms us, the gift giver who equips us, the river of living water who flows out of us to refresh the world.” Max Lucado – “Help Is Here” Fifteen minutes into my conversation with New York best-selling author and pastor Max Lucado, I was surprised by how much I did not know about the beloved author. For starters, I was unaware that he had lived in my country, Brazil, for five years and speaks Portuguese with unlikely fluency for someone who has not Continue Reading
Do You Have All You Need? {Recharge Wednesday LINKUP}
I stared out of my Indianapolis apartment at the cement parking lot full of cars and remembered the New England storybook charm I’d left behind. What the Hoosiers called trees looked like shrubs compared to the brilliant maples I’d enjoyed. My tiny bedroom held unfamiliar second-hand furniture. My previous assignment had consisted of a ministry team of single adults. We became fast friends and lived close enough to walk to one another’s homes. My housemate and I had immediately bonded, even Continue Reading
