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
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
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
Grow in Grace {Recharge Wednesday LINKUP}
As a new mom, a friend of mine regularly reported sleeplessness. Sipping hot drinks while her infant alternated between fussing and sleeping, she told me how it had occurred to her one late, loud night that her baby was doing his job: He was growing. The sweet little guy didn’t understand what was happening as his adorable cheeks filled out and squirming legs got longer. He didn’t have any way to communicate his needs or frustrations except for fussing. Listening to her gentle wisdom Continue Reading
How Not to Go on Guilt Trips {Recharge Wednesday LINKUP}
We weren’t created to go on guilt trips. But we learned to send ourselves and each other on these unpleasant excursions because sin entered the world. First, let’s look at desirable trips. Maybe a planned or spontaneous travel schedule. Perhaps our favorite vacation spots. Possibly, places familiar or unknown. Or, traveling abroad. And a voyage by sea. Also, guided tours, historical landmarks, the mountains, a natural wonder, the beach, tropical climates, and soaring Continue Reading
