The Reality of Christian Living
The Reality of Christian Living
by Eric Lambert
Christianity is not a party. Walking with God is a lifestyle. As a result, things may go wrong. We have this belief that because we are born again that we will be free from trouble. The exact opposite is true. We are told in Psalms 34:19, “Many [are] the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.” In the time of trouble, what will God do? Hide us. Our heavenly Father does not say that He is going to deliver us out of trouble, but He will hide us in the midst of it.
Believing Big
Believing Big
By Kimberly Cash Tate
I’m a practical person by nature. Left to myself, I’ll make sensible choices. Careful, planned, I-can-see-where-this-is-going kinds of choices. College. Law school. Clerkship. Law Firm. I was living my planned life. I could see the trajectory clear to retirement.
But that was all before I knew the Lord.
Dealing with Discouragement
Dealing with Discouragement
by Filoiann Wiedenhoff
“Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the Lord your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you." Deuteronomy 31:6 NKJV
Do you want to hear something funny? I started writing this article, “Dealing with Discouragement”, several months ago and every time I began working on it, I would get discouraged and want to quit. Oh the irony. Well, I thought it was funny but now I wonder if it was spiritual warfare.
Through the Storm
Through the Storm
by Kimberly Cash-Tate
Naomi knew who she was. She was a wife and mother. She was from the nation of Israel, a follower of God, and she was blessed by God. Life wasn’t easy—they had to leave their native Bethlehem and journey to foreign soil to escape famine—but with her family and her God, she could weather the storm.
Our Own “Trail of Tears”
Our Own “Trail of Tears”
by Verinda Birdsong
Weeping may last for the night, but a shout of joy comes in the morning (Psalms 30:5)
If you are a history buff or if you remember your high school class in American history and the expansion of the West, then you are familiar with the term “Trail of Tears” so called by Native Americans when the governments of Georgia and the United States in their endeavor to confiscate rich, prime land, removed hundreds of thousands of the First Americans from their ancestral home to Indian Reservations throughout the Midwest. For several years, as each tribe beginning with the Chickasaw Nation and ending with the last forced relocation of the Cherokees in 1839, “trails of tears” were formed during the extrication process either by a civil war of words and guns, conciliatory treaties, or forced removal that often involved intrigue, covenant breaking, betrayal and genocide on both sides.
Surrendering All
Surrendering All
By Kimberly Cash-Tate
“I am the Lord who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans…” (Genesis 15:7).
I used to think Abram didn’t have much to leave behind. I pictured him living in a tent in the middle of a desert when God called him. He could easily pick up and go. There wasn’t much happening in Ur anyway.
Boy, was I wrong.
