It can be daunting to face fear from time to time or every day. This site offers encouragement from the Bible to help you face your fear with God on your side.
“The straw that broke the camel’s back?” It’s a silly phrase, meaning that a small thing caused a large reaction. To be honest, in the past, it sounded more like an excuse than anything else. Yet I remember a day early on in the pandemic where unloading the dishwasher was that very straw. I had …
Losing a friend. Overwhelmed by debt. Sitting in an emergency room. Grieving at a funeral. Most of us have endured one of these tragedies. Reaching for one of my favorite Psalms, I look at Psalm 91:5-10 and struggle to understand… Please read the rest of “Peace in the Midst of Problems” over on the …
Were you great at hide and seek as a kid? I wasn’t, usually. But I remember playing it once at my grandparent’s house where I found the best hiding place! My cousin heard me go into one room but couldn’t find me because I had slipped into the closet and gone to the far other …
The Lord hears our prayers “The Lord has heard my plea; the Lord accepts my prayer.” Psalm 6:9 ESV Prayer is powerful “And he said to them, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer.” Mark 9:29 ESV Jesus prayed “In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all …
As a high school cross-country runner, I would spend hours after school running around the school’s neighborhood or a sprawling park not too far away. Most of the area around the school was flat, easy enough for a young athlete to cover. But there were plenty of opportunities in practices and races to run up …
“We’d like you to come back for more tests,” the voice told me on the phone. A routine checkup has turned into maybe something more for me. They can’t see me for two weeks (so it can’t be that urgent, right?), so I wait and pray. There are many things I pray about that don’t …
I am OK at keeping the plates spinning. I can meet my expectations at work, make sure dinner is on the table each night (well, most nights!), and make time to spend with family and friends. According to my not-so-humble opinion, I can handle these things on my own. I spend little time thinking or …
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He shows us He is bigger than our fears “In God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can man do to me?” Psalm 56:11 ESV He is our confidence “Do not be afraid of sudden terror or of the ruin of the wicked, when it comes, for the Lord will be your confidence …
“I’m so relieved,” I thought to myself after hearing a friend’s test results. I had been concerned and worried for my friend’s health. I immediately felt lighter. I had been feeling a little under the weather that day, but the good news made me feel significantly better. I had worried myself sick, with nothing to …
Without the resurrection of Jesus, the followers of Jesus had nothing. It had been nice up to that point, right? It looked like He was the Messiah. He performed miracles, He promised salvation, He put the Pharisees in their place. The kingdom that had been promised seemed to be on its way. But talk about …