Tag: faith
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Keeping Our Focus on Jesus
Storms, suffering, trials, and everyday distractions pull at us from every direction. Keeping our focus on Jesus fills our minds with “Jesus truths.”
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Hopeless and Helpless … Until Jesus: 3 Questions to Ask Yourself
Do you remember a time when you felt hopeless and helpless … until Jesus? It’s time to ask yourself 3 questions to help you focus on Jesus and receive hope and help.
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Faith-Talk … A Review
Do you talk about your faith? How much of that talk is centered around Jesus and how your life has changed because of His great love for you? Faith Talk shares how the gospel has changed women’s lives and how the gospel continues to impact these women. Their faith talk moves from head knowledge to…
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7 Keys to Faith-filled Prayer
7 Keys to faith-filled prayer. When our prayers are faith-filled, we know that God will answer our prayers. Faith-filled prayers align with God’s will. God’s will is that we forgive others as He has forgiven us.
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Praying Greatly Through Faith
“The faith which creates powerful praying is the faith which centers itself on a powerful person. Faith in Christ’s ability to do and to do greatly, is the faith which prays greatly.” E.M. Bounds Have you prayed a great prayer? A prayer that requests something that is impossible for you to accomplish? Was it based…
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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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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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30 Blessings & 25 Responsibilities for Christians
Photo by Diana Simumpande on Unsplash Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us…
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A Fusion of Krakow and Pope John Paul II
Living inside the biblical story and the story of salvation history. That was the desire of Pope John Paul II, according to New York Times bestselling author George Weigel. In City of Saints, Weigel creates a beautiful spiritual and pictorial travelogue of Krakow, the “city where the twentieth century happened.” (p. 1) Karol Wojtyla, later Pope John…