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What Does "Trusting God" Look Like?

We learn the value of trust when people break it, but we learn its true worth by those who don't break it. Worry is not part of trust we like to add worry to trust and when we do it is no longer trust. I like what Spur…
What Is Love? Part Seven: Final Thoughts

Well it's been a long week of discussing the concept of love. I'll be honest; the only reason I started doing this in the first place was to help me understand what love really is. If you know me at all, you know I've…
Teaching By Fear or By Trust

Fear as a strategy can work in the short run, but it never seems good for planning anything long term. I remember when in high school taking driver’s education. They would show us films with all kinds of gory title…
Trusting in Good Times and Bad

There are times of inner peace and centeredness, like a fine spring day, cool breezes, everything alive and reaching up towards the sun. Mornings can be like that as well, a promise of new hope and even of a certain kin…
Why “Do Not Fear” Does Not Mean “Do Not Care”

By Sharon at She Worships On Saturday I had the opportunity to appear on Moody Radio’s morning show “Up for Debate.” The subject of the show was gun violence, and I had been invited because of an artic…
Looking Back on 2012: Here I Raise My Ebenezer

By Sharon at She Worships I still remember the first time I learned that “ebenezer” was more than a scrooge-y character in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. I was taking an Old Testament class in sem…
When Things Don't Go Your Way, Be Flexible

I knew when I landed in Charlotte on the Sunday before Christmas that this would not be the average, stress-free trip home. The word "CANCELLED" in bright red on the departures screen told me I had to put my own plans a…
To Live Deeply is to Have Courage and Trust

Perceptions can be wrong, dangerous and life denying. They often come from our deep past, making trust of others difficult. Or if trust broken after a new beginning, the over-reaction can often be directed at everyone a…
Waiting, Trusting and Praying

I am having some health problems at this time. Not sure how serious it is; time will tell. I was talking to my Doctor today, who like me is a Christian (Catholic) and as we talked I was surprised that I told him that I…
Trusting God in Times of Trouble

Yes, it is easy to praise God if we are just receiving good news from Him and if He answered our prayers, but what if He allows disappointments, sickness and challenges, to happen in our lives? Do we have still the same…