Purpose. We all have one. And it’s easy to get distracted from it…but I’ve been challenged to be distracted with it instead. Let’s find out how to be distracted with purpose…
Year: 2014 (page 10)
Prison Break
Prison. The word does not bring with it warm fuzzies. No happy thoughts there. Prison is never good. It’s a punishment. It’s dark. Dank. Gloomy. There are several prison stories in the Bible that have always brought me hope in the prison-like seasons of my life…
Change of plans…
Ever have a plan that kept getting changed? Or get hit with one thing after another with no break in sight? Ever wonder why? We can take a little hope from Mark chapter 6 today. There may just be a miracle right around the corner.
No Peeking!
Have you ever given someone a surprise gift and had them cover their eyes so they didn’t look before just the right time? NO PEEKING!!! Or have you ever gotten a package in the mail before Christmas marked, “Do not open until December 25th,” and you really wanted to look? NO PEEKING!!! And the temptation to look, to peek, to unwrap it before Christmas is almost unbearable?
Okay, how many of you would peek? Open it early? How many of you unwrapped your presents early as a kid in secret and wrapped them back up so you wouldn’t have to wait until Christmas to find out what it was? (I personally prefer to wait, but I know people who would totally peek early.)
Now now!
When you think of the word “now,” what do you think? I learned a whole new meaning of the word on my mission trip to Africa. Check it out…