I’d like to talk to you about making the choice to be happy. Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island, wrote, “There is no duty we undertake so much as the duty of being happy.” Helen Keller, blind and deaf from childhood, said, “Your success and happiness...
Bad moments are mostly unexpected, unappreciated, and often create confusion in our lives. When you are embarrassed, experience a loss, fail at something, get robbed, are misunderstood, etc., those bad feelings rise up and bring us negativity and trauma. The length of...
The world’s largest religion is called “Christianity.” That includes all faiths affiliated with Jesus Christ in one way or another. This also includes groups who do not believe the Bible is God’s living word. It includes very socially Conservative groups, Orthodox,...
People talk about me. The talk is not always flattering, and my critics seem to grow like weeds. Because my life has a public dimension, there’s been lots of talk both good and bad about me over the decades so I’m used to it. Sort of. Believe it or not, people talk...
LISTEN TO THE DEVOTIONAL Some wounds are so deep, we choke on even the thought of forgiveness. After rebels killed her husband and two sons, Grace fled her village. She ended up in a crowded refugee camp, angry, bitter, and unable to sleep. “They took...
We were created as spiritual beings by a God who is spirit. We were created spirit, soul and body, but our spirit is foremost. To be a “spiritual” person does not mean we’re mystical, irrational nor unintelligent. The spiritual person is continually looking to God for...
Sometimes I wonder if anyone is content with anything. There is always something more, something better, something faster, something newer. Multitudes of dating websites advertise “We can find that perfect person for you. Maybe you should dump the current one and...
Nobody likes criticism. I don’t. You probably don’t either. Yet we do get criticized sometimes—and it’s never enjoyable. Criticism is: disapproval of someone or something based on perceived faults or mistakes. The person who says, “Oh, it doesn’t bother me to be...
Winston Churchill said many years ago, “If you cannot change your mind, you cannot change anything.” “That is a true fact,” as my teenage daughter would say. Nothing is more habitual than the pattern of our thoughts. Nothing prevents us from progress like our...
Something that troubles me is watching believers change as time goes by, but not always for the better. Let me explain what I mean. I’m not talking about seniors when I say long-term Christians. I mean people who have been in the faith for a long time. So today I...