It can be exhausting watching someone you love make poor choices over and over again. The more time and energy you invest into helping this person, the more frustration and mental fatigue you experience when he/she continues down the path you are certain will lead to destruction. We may feel like we’ve tried EVERYTHING and …
We don’t have to look far to find someone who is suffering. On any given day, someone we know is suffering pain from illness, grief from loss, anxiety from uncertainty…the list of hardships seems endless. Out of compassion, we reach out to offer our support. But what about when “we” are the ones facing hardship? …
The beating heart represents the very essence of our physical life, without it, our physical bodies cease to exist. We live in an age of technology where it’s possible to actually revive a dead heart; to literally bring it back to life again. But what about a heart that is spiritually dead and no longer …
Christians tend to spend a lot of time discussing the inevitability of committing sin, the need for confessing sin, and the forgiveness of sins. This makes sense since the foundation of Christianity rests not on the Bible itself, but on the belief that Jesus lived, was crucified and was resurrected to wipe our scoreboard of …
Even though I enjoyed attending Sunday school as a young child, I remember not wanting to have much to do with the church when I was in high school. I distanced myself from any peers who I believed to be too “churchy.” The truth is I didn’t want anyone telling me what to do; but …