Faith and Christian Living
Every one of us comes into this world with the need to feel loved, even people who say they don’t do the “touchy-feely” thing. They need love like anyone else – they just don’t acknowledge it. To meet this need for love, we often go “lookin’ for love in all the wrong places,” to borrow the title […]
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At Christmas everyone is thinking about gifts, wanting to make people happy with their offerings. We also refer to talented artists, musicians, or athletes, for example as gifted, and we try to perform as well as they do. But it’s easy to get discouraged when we compare ourselves to them, maybe even feeling like we have
Some people say that all religions are the same, and what’s important is that you’re sincere in your beliefs. Just try to be a good person, and all will go well. But real Christianity is not at all like the others. The first difference is that from the start Christianity acknowledges that we CAN’T be good people. (Besides,
The verse of the day on my Bible app was Philippians 4:4, “Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.” Not always easy when things aren’t going well. It easier to focus on the difficulties and disappointments. But that verse won’t go away, and it says, always. So what do I do? Remember. In Psalm 77, Asaph says
Four and a half years ago, when things were topsy-turvy in our world, I wrote a post about keeping the “main thing the main thing” http://cyndicarter.com/2021/03/03/the-main-thing/. Well, much to my dismay, things are at least if not more chaotic, and so I’d like to address what’s going on. As I walked this morning the words of Paul
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Odd things can spark a chain of thoughts. I was folding clothes and picked up my engineer hubby’s t-shirt that sports the message “I am the warranty” on the back. It makes his engineer heart sing to fix things, which he loves to do. I thought of verses like 2 Corinthians 1:21-22, “And it is God who
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Sorry I haven’t posted in a while. The last few weeks have been busy with unexpected “duties as assigned.” Yet another friend is seriously ill (third one this year), and we’re processing that. My hubby remembered a song, “Jesus, Lover of My Soul,” which had meant a lot to me almost twenty years ago when I had
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Wonderful worship song “Be Unto Your Name”, written by Lynn DeShazo, sung by Robin Mark. Be blessed! Click here to watch.
I’m about one-half to two-thirds of the way through writing a fictional account of the prophet Jonah, and at times I find myself challenged to consider the state of my own heart. Do I truly have compassion for the lost; or am I a bit like Jonah, reluctant to go to unbelievers because they do or
It’s still winter, but we’re doing some spring cleaning. We’re rehoming or throwing away items that have outlived their expiration dates, or things that we rarely use (anybody want a crock pot?) They’re taking up space, and cluttering things up. Hebrews 12:1 says, “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us