Sonshine for your soul
Posted in courage on Apr 14th, 2015
We’ve all faced skeptics who told us we were crazy for considering a bold plan to go for a certain job or a certain team or a certain relationship or a certain address or, yes, a certain act of Christian ministry.
“Get serious!” they told us, adding that we’d be out of our league […]
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 […]
Posted in courage on Mar 11th, 2015
Let’s do what Joseph of Arimathea did on Good Friday.
Let’s leave our comfort zone for God’s sake.
Let’s take a glorified risk.
“Joseph of Arimathea took a risk and went to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body.” (Mark 15:43)
Joseph understood what was at stake socially, financially and spiritually when he decided to place godly faith […]
Posted in Patience on Feb 19th, 2015
My computer just ate my original Morning Devotion effort for the day and I don’t have another 45 minutes to spend trying to re-create it just now. That’s why I want to share a Morning Devotion that I wrote nearly 10 years ago, one that appropriately describes the important of persistence when things aren’t […]
Posted in endurance on Jan 22nd, 2015
Nobody likes going through hard times.
Losing your job stinks.
Losing a cherished relationship stinks.
Losing a physical capability — even temporarily — stinks.
Gaining a chronic illness stinks.
Gaining an abrasive, morally insensitive co-worker stinks, particularly when his or her desk is adjacent to yours.
The list could go on, of course.
But […]
Thanks for sharing a few minutes with me. Please pass this message on to family and friends. Blessings!
Martin Drummond