My family and I had just enjoyed a "family night". We had eaten our supper on TV trays in the living room while watching a Christian DVD. We call it our weekend treat. But now it was time for the "get-ready-for-bed" routine, and I was shutting off all of the...
What do you do when your spouse has left you? How can you face another morning when you are feeling like a complete loser at work? How can you handle the daily stresses that keep on piling up? Do you know of a way out of these trials that you are inundated with?Jesus'...
"Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?" (Matt 6:27 NIV)When I was in grade 5, I enrolled in "Worry 101". My teacher announced bluntly at the beginning of June that several of us would not make it out of grade 5 that year. This caused my friends and...
It has been one of the most trying Christmas seasons ever. In fact, it seemed like the bottom had dropped out of Christmas.It started out with the sudden death of my brother-in-law, and an emergency trip to California. Upon our return, my wife got really sick, and...
My kids were excited. For weeks we had been planning on going to see "The Chronicles of Narnia" over Christmas break, and today was the day! They couldn't wait, but there was this one thing my wife planned to accomplish before leaving for the theatre: Haircuts! With...
"My life is a real mess!" He said. "I either have highs or lows, Great things happen or bad things happen.""There was a point in my own life I thought the same thing. There was no average day. When things were great they were super. I didn't have to worry about a...
"You don't believe me!"I'm afraid to admit that I say these words pretty often. But even more often, I hear others saying them! In fact, I was watching a TV show last weekend and observed these words being spoken between friends. The result? A fight broke out and the...