READ: PSALMS 36:7; 94:18; 143:8-12; ISAIAH 54:10 Unfailing love... We sin and sin again. We mess up and try to put the blame on someone or something other than ourselves. We fail to help the hurting. We fail to take our eyes off our own needs and see the needs around us. We don’t do [...]

READ: MATTHEW 4:1-11; 1 CORINTHIANS 10:13; HEBREWS 4:14-16 How can we resist temptation? As Christians, when we encounter something we know Jesus wouldn’t want us to do, we have a choice. Will we give in to the temptation? Or will we trust Jesus to empower us to do the right thing? Sometimes, trusting Jesus is [...]

READ: ROMANS 8:28; 1 CORINTHIANS 13:12; REVELATION 21:1-5 It might seem odd, but I often think of kittens when I consider a very hard question: “Where is God with all the hurt going on?” It’s a question I ask a lot, especially since my husband is a news reporter, so I often get a front-row [...]

READ: JOHN 1:14; 3:16-17; COLOSSIANS 1:12-14 I think being a professional kitten rescuer might be one of the cutest jobs in existence. But the practical realities of the job are anything but cute.  When a rescuer receives foster kittens into their home, these tiny rescue kittens need lots of attention, and the care they need is [...]

READ: EPHESIANS 1:3-14 We don’t always fully agree with everyone who shares our faith in Jesus Christ. Some people might judge us, and we might fall into judging them too. The decisions that we make don’t always line up with what others think is right, and we are going to see other Christians doing things [...]

READ: 1 CORINTHIANS 9:19-23; PHILIPPIANS 2:5-8 I sat down at a table lavishly spread with traditional Romanian foods. And that was the day I began eating meat again. Years ago, at age sixteen, my best friend and I ordered steak sandwiches while on a school trip. Our meals arrived undercooked. Even though the staff remedied the [...]

READ: PSALMS 9:10; 63:1-8; ACTS 17:27 When I search for You You’re not hard to find When I need a friendYou are always kindWhen I ask for helpYou are always thereWhenever I’m in a messYou still show me You careWhen others do me harmYou hold and comfort meIn the times I feel aloneBy my side, You’ll beWhen [...]

READ: JOHN 14:18; REVELATION 21:1-5; 22:20 One semester, while my friend was taking a seminary class on Tuesday mornings, I’d watch her two-year-old daughter. These mornings were typically filled with coloring, reading books, eating snacks, and other fun things my friend’s daughter and I enjoyed doing together. One morning though, this dear little toddler was really missing [...]

READ: MATTHEW 20:1-16; 2 CORINTHIANS 9:6-15 Veena had to hold herself back from running to the fruit stand. She’d finished her first week on the job—pulling weeds from the pine-melon fields—and now after a long week, she’d saved enough money to buy one of her own. The deep green melons shone in the morning sun, [...]

READ: JOHN 1:18; ROMANS 12:19; REVELATION 21:3-4 Do you have a favorite place to think or pray? I do. Most mornings I grab my coffee and head to the back porch. There, I meet with God in prayer, asking to be led by His Spirit and asking for grace to face the day. This is one way [...]