Music, poetry, movies…all spread the lie that love should be easy. In reality, relationships are hard. Relationships are hard because love is difficult. Love might seem easy over a candlelight dinner or when first holding your newborn child, but we quickly learn how...
Your Need is No Match for God’s Infinite Resources
Is there a nagging need in your life that, it seems, will never get met? Marc runs a small business that's growing but always running on tight finances. Every role on his team is integral, and he desperately needed to hire three additional people. He prayed, asking...
Life and Peace Found Here
For thousands of years, religious people have tried to attain perfection and goodness. Countless rules have been written, only to reveal our still imperfect hearts. A pious man devoted his life to studying his religion's holy books and trying to do good deeds. But he...
Here’s What We Know About a New Year
Standing on the runway of a brand-new year, there's a lot that we can't see—like what the year holds for us, or for our crazy world. When we can't see, it's time to go back to what we know. In the song Known Only to Him, Elvis Presley once sang, "I know not what the...
Have You Ever Been Chained with Words?
It was a shocking story that gripped the nation. In 2002, 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was abducted at knifepoint from her bed in the middle of the night in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her family searched for her in vain. Nine months later she was recognized while walking...
Why Beauty from Hardship is Possible
Roses are perhaps the world’s favorite flower. However, there is a facet of growing roses that we don’t focus on—fertilizing. Yet, fertilizer is a very necessary part of growing beautiful blooms. Unfortunately, the best fertilizer to produce lovely roses is the...
The Two Things to Remember in Suffering
In many ways, the problem of suffering is more difficult for Christians to deal with than for non-Christians. Why? The Christian believes that nothing happens apart from the will of God, that He is sovereign and all-powerful, and—bottom line—that God is good, loving,...
God’s Love is the Kind of Love You Need
Love is all you need, sang the British rock band, The Beatles, in 1967, during what was called the “Summer of Love.” And whether or not the kind of love the Beatles were singing of is really what the world needed, it is true that our world would be a drab and desolate...
5 Steps to Using Biblical Principles to Negotiate
"You don't get what you deserve; you get what you negotiate!" business writers claim, stressing that when it comes to your job review, you’d better be ready to prove your point with your boss. The fact is, however, that statement is pretty true. What you deserve and...
God is for You!
Here is something amazing about God: He is for us, not against us! So often, especially if we have grown up in a home with a very religious tradition, it is very easy to focus on wanting to please—first our parents, then teachers, employers, and yes, God. Faith can...