Everyday Matters
Friday Matters
Everyday Airport Righteousness
I was in the airport traveling to speak and I was crabby, and I felt negative. Things weren’t right in my head. So, I did what I tell others, “Go to the Bible. Listen to God.”
Thursday Matters
Everyday Refrigerator Peace
Isaiah 26:3 was a magnet on my refrigerator that I looked at everyday when I was raising our four young sons and it says, “Jesus keeps in perfect peace all who trust in Him, all whose thoughts are fixed on Him.”
Wednesday Matters
Everyday Oh God
We hear it all the time, the phrase “Oh, my God!” to express a thought or idea that is incredible or unbelievable. But as we grow in a relationship with Christ, we need to realize that when we say, “Oh, my God” we’re, in fact, violating one of God’s Ten Commandments;
Tuesday Matters
Everyday Handling It
Have you heard this saying, “God doesn’t give you more than you can handle?” like that’s supposed to be some sort of bumper sticker of encouragement?
Monday Matters
Everyday Redeemer Lives
It has always struck me that Job said, "My Redeemer lives,” when he was in such a miserable place. He didn't know the end of the book that's named after him.
Friday Matters
Everyday Sins Forgiven
Think how amazing it is that God chooses not to remember our sins. He chooses never to bring them up again.
Thursday Matters
Everyday Sign Language
It was his first day back on the job after more than a year on disability leave due to a freak explosion in the plant that, among other injuries, left him legally deaf in both ears.
Wednesday Matters
Everyday Ark of Love
The Old Testament Bible story of Noah and the Ark which many of us know is where God told Noah and his family to build and come into the ark to be saved from the flood.
Tuesday Matters
Everyday Be the Church
I love people. I love traveling and meeting new people in random places everywhere, like gas stations.
Monday Matters
Everyday Job Explanation
Maybe the reason God doesn’t explain to Job why terrible things happen is that because He knows that Job really doesn’t need an explanation.
Friday Matters
Everyday Forgiven Offender
God is bigger. We may know this in our heart but it’s acting it out like we believe it that makes the difference.
Thursday Matters
Everyday Job Bedtime Story
I still remember years ago returning home from my son’s skating class and thinking it probably wasn’t a good time to tell my husband Dan that our "check engine soon" light was on again
Wednesday Matters
Everyday False Christian
Okay so you’re talking to a person who says they know and love Jesus. Great. But the more you talk the more you realize that you’re kinda saying the same thing but you’re not.
Tuesday Matters
Everyday Underdog
God often chooses the underdog. Think of David in the Bible who is the youngest of his brothers, a shepherd boy and was made King.
Monday Matters
Everyday Treatment of Others
How we treat others, including family members, from day to day, or how we react to the alcoholic who just can’t seem to get their act together or the people we don’t like, says a lot about us.
Friday Matters
Everyday Holy Trinity
“Mom, I don’t get the Trinity. I mean, I get how the Holy Spirit is in us when we ask Jesus in but how are the Holy Spirit, God and Jesus; all one?” My answer was “Water.”
Thursday Matters
Everyday Drunk Righteousness
What does it mean to be righteous? Well, it means we are in right standing with God and that means we know who we are in Him…. loved, redeemed, not a mistake.
Wednesday Matters
Everyday Pride
I was stinky. Oh, I had taken a shower, but I had pride and pride stinks. Pride is difficult to deal with because we don’t think we have it.
Tuesday Matters
Everyday Gentle Answer
Sometimes I talk too much. Even if I’m talking about good things, it’s still better if I follow the advice of Proverbs 10:19; “Don’t talk too much, for it fosters sin. Be sensible and turn off the flow!” I know that the mouth that blesses, praises and prays can also irritate, hurt and harm.
Monday Matters
Everyday “I Should”
Today I want to encourage you to ask God to help you take the “should” out of your life. Think how often you say, “I should read the Bible, I should memorize scripture, I should attend a Bible study, I should lead one.”