Faith in Time of Stress

Think of it like adding a flour-and-water mixture to juice of a pot-roast to make gravy. The first blog was the juice and this week’s blog is the mixture that makes the gravy. The first blog was the juice and this week’s blog is the mixture that makes the gravy.

Courage in the Midst of Distress

God is good and life is difficult. The life of faith is lived between these two realities.
Many times in our own lives, we reflect the hard truth of that statement in whatever distressful situation we may find ourselves. Whether it is the loss of a loved one and the grief is overwhelming, children or grandchildren gone astray, broken relationships, illness and the dreaded news that it is terminal, a financial earthquake that rattles our being into shambles, or our recruitment into a spiritual battle, we need courage. We need hope. We need God.

Leap of Death

You raise your eyebrows in apprehension as a man with a parachute strapped to his back takes a running leap. He pulls the ripcord and his canopy opens displaying its many colorful stripes. On each stripe you notice the name of a good work the man apparently had accomplished in his lifetime.