Sonshine for your soul
Posted in spiritual strength on Sep 11th, 2015
Traumatic events such as the 9/11 terror attacks in 2001 almost always produce feelings of loss and weakness.
But they also give us the opportunity to rebuild new hopes and gain new strength.
It’s true in the natural world and in the spiritual world.
Most every believer has experienced an extreme loss somewhere along the […]
Posted in stress on Aug 7th, 2015
We’ve all done it.
And we’ll all do it again.
Even the Christians among us.
I’m talking about trying to predict and manage every challenge we face even before we feel the pressure.
I’m talking about stressing before the reason for the stress even shows up.
And I’m talking about trying to do God’s job when we should focus on […]
Posted in evangelism on Jun 17th, 2015
There’s much value in asking a mature believer to accompany you when it comes to talking with people about Jesus.
Barnabas was a wonderful, caring, godly man who wanted to see people get saved in a city called Antioch. And he was having some success for the gospel, according to Acts 11.
That was good. […]
Posted in anger on May 20th, 2015
I Samuel 26 describes the opportunity David had to kill King Saul, the unjust ruler whose jealousy left him obsessed with killing David.
Despite the persistent push of Saul to end David’s life, the young king-in-waiting resisted the temptation to seek revenge against Saul.
The opportunity was right there for the taking, according to the […]
Posted in endurance on Apr 2nd, 2015
We’ve all done it.
We shouldn’t have.
But we did.
Thank God for His gracious decision to give us another chance.
I’m talking about not following through on commitments we made to volunteer at church or to tithe weekly or to keep forgiving that irritating co-worker or to maintain a daily devotional life.
The list of commitments that […]
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Martin Drummond