How do you measure your self-worth? How do you determine your true value? That’s what Sharon Jaynes chats with us about in her guest post on my blog–Owning Your True Value.
Hope Building Facts About Forward Looking
Have you ever allowed shame over your words or actions to hold you back from God’s call on your life? Have you ever believed that your past disqualifies you in some way from serving God? The enemy would like to convince us that our messy pasts erode any promise for our future. Read Michelle’s post to renew your hope and redeem your past.
Are You Living Connected, or Only in Close Proximity?
We donate blankets to the homeless shelter and canned goods to the food bank. We pack Christmas boxes of hygiene and personal items for children around the world. We purchase goats or chickens for needy families in Uganda. All these good acts express love for my neighbors. Some of our neighbors. What about the woman seated alone on the far side of the sanctuary or even the woman who sits in front of me at the Sunday service? Week after week.
My Christmas Prayer
Lord Jesus, with “O Come All Ye Faithful” playing in the background, I pause to be still. Reset my spirit to remember that you are God. The Beginning and the End. The life-giving Light who came to earth all those years ago. Father, may the lavish love that compelled Christ to come as a babe swaddled in a feed trough, …