What is hope?  The world defines hope as wishful thinking, hoping that something will happen, and leads us to believe it is something we can conjure up.  But the Bible says hope is "confident expectation" and talks of both an eternal hope and a hope for the "here and now".  Hope is mentioned 135 tim...

There are different kinds of fear such as the adrenaline producing fear warning of danger and causing the fight or flight response, Fear of the Lord, fear from ongoing trauma, and a pervasive, underlying fear that many people live with today.  Adrenaline producing fear is for our protection and Fear...

I was raised that children should be seen and not heard!  What message does that give a child?  My book, Taming Tongues, is about how powerful our words are.  Prov. 18:21 says “Death and life are in the power of the tongue” and James compares the tongue to a rudder on a ship (it is a small part that...

Childhood experiences sometimes teach us to believe things about ourselves that are false and steal our identity.  The longer we operate out of those false beliefs or lies, the more entrenched they become in our thoughts and the more we make decisions out of them.  In my experience of praying with p...

Repentance is more than saying you’re sorry.  It is an apology heartfelt enough that you are willing to take some action to change and try to replace the bad fruit with good fruit.  If there isn’t some kind of observable or measurable change, the repentance probably isn’t for real.  When kids fight,...

After recognizing offense and the lies, vows, or judgments we have made as a result of our experiences; forgiveness is the next step and the key that Jesus gave us for our healing.  We often don’t want to forgive the people who hurt us or tempted us to believe the lies that have wreaked havoc in our...