I am learning more and more about faith each day. In the past, faith--as I understood it--was the ability to muster up enough belief in something that it would come to pass. "If you just had enough faith..." Faith, I am learning, is more than what … [Continue reading] about Responding in Faith
The Foundation of Faith
"Everyone who hears my words and obeys them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. It rained hard, the floods came, and the winds blew and hit the house. But, it did not fall, because it was built on the rock" (Matthew 7:24-25).This … [Continue reading] about The Foundation of Faith
Safely over the Mountains – Facing Difficulties
Do you ever feel like things keep crashing in around you--that nothing is going right in your life? Right when you start see some light at the end of tunnel--crash!--another setback. You press on, weary and tired, hoping that you can get over these … [Continue reading] about Safely over the Mountains – Facing Difficulties
Feeling Faithless
"Russell, I'm tired and weak. My faith has failed me. I don't know what to do.""I feel so faithless, like God has abandoned me.""I feel so alone. I have no faith to carry me through these difficult times."Do you feel faithless, like God … [Continue reading] about Feeling Faithless
Never Forsaken – Learning to trust God in our financial need
Have you ever heard the scripture that God will never leave you nor forsake you? It's an often-quoted verse. I quote this verse from the New Testament (Hebrews 13:15), but the writer of Hebrews was most like quoting an Old Testament verse. Here are … [Continue reading] about Never Forsaken – Learning to trust God in our financial need