Over the Christmas break, I sat around the table talking with my family and the dangerous question proposed by my niece was “if you went to high school with me now, would we be friends?” This led to a funny yet interesting conversation of our perceptions of each other, which included the style of clothes we…
Oh how I have missed you all! Thank you so much for your support and love as we kicked off James and CHOICES this fall. I loved every minute of my time with you and I continue to pray over each of you. My prayer this season for you and for me was to not…
Remember the scene in a Christmas Carol where Mr. Scrooge gets to look from afar in on the joy and the blessings of others? Remember how the ghost takes him and lets him observe the lives of others? Mr. Scrooge gets to see the ways people are blessed with little and with much and then…
Trust is a foundational word. Without trust every other emotion or feeling becomes conditional. For example, if we love someone one but don’t trust them then every time they do something we find questionable, we resend the love, the forgiveness, intimacy…. you fill in the blank. Our trust is foundational for a relationship to be…
This week begins the first journey of being a student once again. I have been a writer for the past 2 years but mainly a student. One thing God has taught me is that I am a student forever. I get to sit at his feet and learn from Him as much as I am…
This past week, I have really struggled between choosing to listen to God or to let Satan affirm all my insecurities. I wish I could tell you that it was an easy choice. I wish I could tell you that I made the right choice every time . But I can’t. God gave me an…
Tonight begins the first study of CHOICES. It has taken me 1 1/2 years to get it to this point. I am so excited to go thorough it as a student and not the author. The beginning came from an act of obedience to God, to just sit and listen. As I began to hear…
I had a lady tell me she thought she understood why James was so passionate about not showing partiality. Showing favoritism was considered such a great offense to James and he spent a lot of time proving the harm of it. This sweet lady suggested that James perhaps struggled with living in the shadow of…
James calls us on the carpet and hammers the nails in hard. He tells us that our words are useless when our actions don’t back them up. The phrase, “people don’t care what you know, until they know that you care” is the perfect illustration here. James tells us that if someone is hungry and…
James talked for 13 verses on favoritism in Chapter 2. We spent a lot of time trying to wrap our brains around why James considered it such a serious offense. James told us if we show favoritism to others than we have broken the royal law and are just like those that murder and commit…