Faith & Encouragement

Be encouraged by God’s promises through articles that offer hope, peace, comfort, and confidence during every season of life.

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    He provides

    I’m on a journey. Following the promptings of God in pursuit of the place He has set aside for my hands to work. With most of my belongings in storage, I traveled with just my car, a few outfits, books, and a computer. A friend and her roommate graciously allowed me to stay on an…

  • Relationships heal broken hearts

    I was speaking with a friend this morning about a mission trip he recently returned from. He & his wife talked about the disgust for how ‘we’ try to Americanize other cultures by bringing people in need our money and gifts. It’s as if we throw an offering their way and carry on with our…

  • sorrowful, yet always rejoicing

    “A mingling of sweetness and sorrow. The sweetness so outweighs the sorrow that I have no desire to dwell on the pain. The root is deep, the covenant solid, the love is sweet. Life is hard, but God is good. I want to be astoundingly enabled to labor on through sorrow, accomplishing more than would ever…

  • not just another sinful being

    Tonight at bible study, we were discussing which seat of faith we sit in with God. Do we call ourselves Christians but don’t really do anything about it? Do we call ourselves Christians, attend bible studies, talk about God, and carry out good deeds, and that’s the extent? Or do we call ourselves Christians and…

  • mountain of God

    Thought that I was all alone, Broken and afraid, But You were there with me, Yes, You were there with me. And I didn’t even know, That I had lost my way, But You were there with me, Yes, You were there with me. ‘Til You opened up my eyes, I never knew, That I…

  • a sunrise of transformation

    Closing out the old year, bringing in a new one, and one thing I have learned over the last 365 days is that it’s okay to wail in grief, scream for joy, sit in the silence, or completely abandon the good things of this world for God’s best; we have only the eyes of faith…