Down the street from our house is an empty lot. It wasn’t always empty. Once there stood a house. A family lived here. They fed the deer in our neighborhood, so we always saw our deer herd in their yard or on their porch. They had a red car and a brick house. One day, as we were driving by, we looked over and the house was gone. We knew the family had moved out a few weeks prior. We…
The Best Christian Books You’ve Probably Never Heard Of (Under $9)! Friends, I love books. Seems obvious, right? But I’m always on the look out for some “new” books to encourage my faith, deeper my understanding of God, and give me inspiration for my life. I have some books I’ve had for a long time, which have made a huge impact of my life. Some of them I might have shared here on the blog, but I wanted to put this…
O God of all comfort, comfort my heart tonight. I wrote out the words to Ellie Holcomb’s song the other night and it was because I needed the words. I am a practical person. I like black and white. I’m not a “ride the fence” kind of girl. I am a let’s all play by the rules and I feel safe. I like to see the boundaries. I like to understand how things work and keep safe. But sometimes God…
How do we have a perfect faith? And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 1:5-8 (KJV) The ingredients are faith, virtue, knowledge, self-control, patience…. Patience….