Depression can grab a hold on anyone at anytime; bringing with it a whole range of emotions. The depressed individual can feel sadness, anger, loneliness, and a foreboding sense of gloom. These feelings can last a few days, weeks, months, or even years if not properly...
What should you do when you are attacked? Verbally or otherwise? Putdowns and ridicule may be far from our minds, but more often than not we have no choice but to face these.Israel, too, experienced such attacks. Take the Amalekites, for example: "The Amalekites came...
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? 18Little children, let...
The beautifully decorated home was only two years old when we purchased it. It seemed ideal for us at this stage of our life that we bought it after the second viewing. As per standard procedure, we hired an inspector to assure all was well.When we read the report ,...
"Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ." - Galatians 6:2Imagine this...Imagine that there is a person standing in front of you struggling with several large packages. You may know them, or you might not. It could be a friend or a stranger....
Whenever I was distraught as a teenager, my father was always by my side to feel my pain.However, nothing could compare to his agony when on February 18, 1981, my life was dramatically changed forever.I was at the wrong place at the wrong time, being an innocent...
I was in my 10th grade science class, wishing, as always, that I wasn't. As if it wasn't bad enough that I had absolutely no interest in anything scientific, I was also totally entrenched in my own personal addiction to nicotineI was spoiled enough -- and sufficiently...