Category: Hope
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5 Steps Toward Spiritual Friendship
How many close friends do you have? Really close. Do you have any spiritual friends? Before I read this book, I had not connected “spiritual” with “friend.” “Spiritual friendship is learning to see the worth God has placed in each person and appreciating the gifts individuals have to offer.” (p. xviii)
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Feel Better Fast & Make It Last … A Review
Ever feel like you’re out of control? Are you anxious? Worried? Sad? Stressed? Angry? Dr. Daniel Amen offers hope for you – hope through a four-pronged approach to health: biological, psychological, social, and spiritual. (p. xxi)
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8 Things I’ve Learned from God’s Healing
On January 1, 2011, Keith and I were observing the San Diego Kite Club flying kites on the beach. A stranger came up to me and asked, “Would you like to have this kite?” Almost six weeks after the Lord miraculously healed me of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue. Another test of my faith. Do I…
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5 Things You Can Do When the Healing Doesn’t Come
Ever feel like life is an uphill struggle with a multitude of barriers in your way? Are you suffering with a chronic illness or what you perceive as an impossible situation, and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight? You and your doctor have tried everything you can think of: special diets, exercise,…
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8 Reasons to Believe God for Healing
Six months after the Lord healed me, I climbed half-way up the Great Wall of China (only halfway because the bus was going to leave). I would not have been able to climb the steps without healing. Wednesday will be the eighth anniversary of the Lord’s healing. On November 21, 2010, Jesus healed me of…
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How to Experience & Express God’s Love According to Dr. Gary Chapman
The way that we express ourselves depends upon many factors, including our backgrounds, cultures, experiences, and values. Through his many years of counseling, Dr. Gary Chapman has concluded that five primary love languages exist with varying dialects or subdivisions within those love languages. Dr. Chapman spoke of these languages at a marriage conference that we…
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3 Lessons You Can Learn from Jesus Washing Feet
Photo from www.LumoProject.com “Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began…
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Links for Walking with God
As we walk with God, it is helpful to glean what others have learned along their walk with God. May these links bless you in your walk with God. Promises of God His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us…
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Eternity is Now in Session … A Review
John Ortberg has asked an important question that all of us need to consider: “What if salvation isn’t mostly about getting us into heaven but about getting heaven into us?” (p. 7). In Eternity Is Now in Session, Ortberg examines the meaning of salvation in light of eternity. This book arrived from the publisher two weeks before…
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A Prayer for America on 9/11
Evil visited America on September 11, 2001. Destruction thundered. Death struck.