October 7, 2020 Have you ever been distressed? Did you hope to be rescued from your distress? Were you rescued? How did it happen? Did a friend or a loved one help you, or did you just muddle through until the distress concluded? When you were...
September 30, 2020 Have you ever been hungry? Not just because you haven’t eaten in several hours, but really hungry and you needed to eat immediately. What did you do? If you were me, you went to the kitchen or a nearby restaurant and found...
September 23, 2020 Have you ever been disappointed with the result of something? I have. Have you ever pinned your hope on a particular result, a win by your baseball, football, basketball or hockey team? What happened when the results were not...
September 16, 2020 Have you ever felt like you were not safe? Have you felt like everything and everyone was closing in on you? Did you feel like you needed a place of safety? What did you do about it? I know that when I was little and I felt...
September 9, 2020 Have you ever felt like your life was unstable? Have you wondered why nothing seems to be going the way you wanted them to go? Are you feeling like you are not walking on solid ground? Have you tried to fix that feeling?...
September 2, 2020 Have you ever wrestled with great grief? I have. Was your grief so bad that you lost all hope? I have. How do you express your grief? Have you expressed your grief to God in lament? Nonetheless, did you feel abandoned by God? I...
August 26, 2020 Have you ever been afraid? I mean really afraid. If you have what happened? Did you lose hope? Did you think you’d never stop being afraid? Why do you think that was the case? Have you emerged from that time of fear? How did it...
One of the most common questions I have found people asking is, “Why is this happening to me, I am a good person?” Have you ever asked this question? I have. Have you come up with an answer to the question? I have in part. What makes a person...
August 13, 2020 Where do find your identity? Is it from your family? Is it from your job? Is it from your reputation and prestige? Is it from yourself? Is it from your friends? Is it from God? Many of us struggle with our identity, including me...
August 5, 2020 Have you ever done anything wrong? I have. Have you ever needed forgiveness? I have. Have you ever thought that you deserve mercy? I have. Do you really understand what mercy is? Maybe but I am not sure. Let us look at what the...
July 29, 2020 We hear a lot of cry’s for justice these days and we should. The particular calls for justice I am hearing right now are the calls for justice in the death of George Floyd. I live about 28 blocks from where George was killed and...
July 23, 2020 Do you believe there is a purpose for God’s wrath? I do. Have you ever wanted God’s wrath to pour down on a person or group? I have. Or maybe, you would you like to forget about a wrathful God and remember only a loving God? Does...
