STANDING WHEN EVERYTHING IS SHAKING What often trips us up in life’s most challenging moments is not the problems but a wrong perspective of the situation and our own inability to handle things. If anyone understood this as a close follower of Jesus, it was Peter. In his second letter, Peter is conveying something that …
SWIMMING AGAINST THE TIDE
When one of my friends went to Acapulco, Mexico on a vacation with his wife, Jim and Doreen had just arrived and parked at the beach. While Doreen grabbed her book to read, Jim raced off to the water to body surf. He was having a great time with the 5-foot waves crashing upon him, …
TRAPPED IN A GOLDEN CAGE!
In Gordon MacDonald’s book, ‘Ordering Your Private World,’ he shares the struggles of a businessman before surrendering his life to Christ and reordering his priorities to reflect what the bible would call wisdom. As this business writes: Several years ago I was at a point of great frustration in my life. Although I had a …