December 29, 2020
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:00 — 4.1MB)What are some blessings we have experienced in this pandemic year of 2020? We all could make a long list of the losses, the setbacks, the inconveniences and frustrations of…
December 28, 2020
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:00 — 4.1MB)What could be worse than a pandemic that caught the world by surprise and the World Health Organization tells us there have been almost one and a half million COVID-19…
December 18, 2020
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:00 — 4.1MB)Have you ever wondered why we all try to find a hiding place of some sort or another? Because we need one. Oh, do we need one. We are needy,…
December 17, 2020
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:00 — 4.1MB)What are some hiding places that people use to try to find relief from pain and reality? Eating is a common hiding place. To stifle pain or avoid the unpleasant,…
December 16, 2020
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:00 — 4.1MB)I’m sure you’re familiar with the wonderful story of Elijah the Prophet, who faced Ahab and all the Baal worshipers on Mount Carmel, taunted them when their gods could not…
December 15, 2020
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:00 — 4.1MB)Did you ever just want to run away? I can assure you that many times I’ve given it serious consideration. When things get tough, when I’m tired, when I don’t…
December 14, 2020
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:00 — 4.1MB)What are your hiding places? We all have them—places where we run to hide from trouble or pain or responsibilities or guilt. I want to look at choosing the right…
December 12, 2020
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 14:28 — 19.9MB)(Mary) What do you do with the hurt? None of us escape some kind of emotional pain—some hurt, and whether it’s a slight offense or some deep, ingrained trauma that…
October 17, 2020
Podcast (podcast-spanish): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 14:28 — 19.9MB)What is out of control in your life right now? If we can learn to control the controllable, we can cope with the uncontrollable. So think about that—isn’t it…
October 10, 2020
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 14:28 — 19.9MB)(Mary) If there is one thing we have painfully learned in this upside-down year, it is that most of our life is out of our control. This was true to…
October 9, 2020
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:00 — 4.1MB)Are you tired of the burden of bitterness? Are you ready to weed out the bitter roots that have grown in the garden of your heart? Here are some very specific ideas…
October 8, 2020
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:00 — 4.1MB)Are you better at pulling out the weeds in your garden than you are at weeding the bitter roots out of your heart? Hebrews 12:15 tells us: “See to it that no one…