Encouragement

  • The Perfect Running Partner

    Psalm 18:35-36 (New Living Translation) You have given me your shield of victory.     Your right hand supports me;     your help has made me great. You have made a wide path for my feet     to keep them from slipping. On a…

  • Empty Pockets

    Acts 3:1-10Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. 2 And a man lame from birth was being carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple that is called the Beautiful Gate to ask alms…

  • Loving Our Hurting Friends

    A few weeks ago I was talking with my counselor about how difficult it can be to ask friends for help. Sometimes there is a fear of being a “burden” on them. She helped me re-frame this thought by explaining…

  • Discipline of Celebration

    When all the nation had finished passing over the Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua, “Take twelve men from the people, from each tribe a man, and command them, saying, ‘Take twelve stones from here out of the midst of the Jordan… and bring them…