Rest for the Weary

Rest for the Weary

Are you feeling tired and worn out? Does it feel even worse because you aren’t able to do what you usually do? Weariness doesn’t just come from manual labor. It also comes from mental fatigue. When we have worried about something for a long time, or we...
Stand Firm in Your Freedom

Stand Firm in Your Freedom

The wooden harness put on an ox to pull the plow is called a yoke. Farmers would put two similar oxen together to plow their fields. Paul uses the analogy of the yoke when it comes to sin in our lives. Before Christ, we were harnessed to the yoke of sin, which we have...
Working Through Grief

Working Through Grief

People are struggling right now, and it is on all different levels. Some struggles are external, like losing a job or the separation from loved ones. Other struggles are internal, and people grope with their lives and the world around them changing. The result of both...
His Mercy is New Every Morning

His Mercy is New Every Morning

Some Bible verses spark a song in your head as soon as you read it. Today’s verse in Lamentations is precisely that. I remember as a kid singing a worship song that was set to this verse. It was so simple and easy to sing. God’s lovingkindness never...
Live the Redeemed Life

Live the Redeemed Life

Do you ever feel like you can’t get ahead? No matter what you do, something is always pulling you back to a dark place? You read the promises of the Bible and wonder why they don’t happen in your life? The disconnect may be that you don’t live the redeemed life. The...
Pour Out Your Heart

Pour Out Your Heart

There are people who are really suffering right now. You could name a whole list of reasons why but the pain is still the same. They are laying awake at night wondering how they are going to feed their family or if a loved one is going to recover from sickness. It is...