Some time ago day my grandson was standing up in the rocking chair and rocking back and forth. I said, “Buddy, don’t stand in the chair. You’re gonna fall”. Well, fall he did. It wasn’t real pleasant. How can we live in God’s will, and know it? As we trust Jesus with ou
Often life is a struggle either because of choices we have made or choices that have been made for us by others. We often seek to live in “our will” rather than choose to live in “God’s will”. Living in God’s will means recognizing God is in control. Living in God’s will mean
Bill and John live in a retirement home. One day, as they are sitting on a bench under a tree, Bill turns to John and says, “John, I’m 85 years old and I’m full of aches and pains. You’re about my age. How do you feel?” John replies, “I feel just like a new-born b
Joseph and Mary are arriving in Bethlehem–Mary very expectant and ready to have a child any day. As everything would have it, they came to Bethlehem because the Roman government forced them to travel to their home city to be counted in the census and to pay their taxes (I’m so glad we ca
There was a time in my life that I found it very hard to put into perspective what I was going through, the circumstances I was in and much of what I had been taught in church about God. In fact, my skewed view of God was actually “religion” without the relationship. As I started studyin
A little girl and her father were hiking in the mountains. The path up the mountain started to narrow and soon it was a pretty steep drop down so the father took his daughters hand and said, “Sweetheart, hold my hand so that you don’t fall off the path.” The little girl said: ̶