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August 4, 2025

August 4, 2025

Do you need encouragement? Maybe you need a partner for your journey.

 

Hebrews 10:24 is a verse about encouragement. Paul tells us to think about the ways we can “spur one another on towards love and good deeds”. Synonyms for “spur” include to urge forward, encourage, motivate, prompt, propel, inspire, and stimulate.

 

As a coach, nothing brings a smile to my face faster than hearing that my client succeeded in reaching one of their goals.

 

Wouldn’t it help to have someone come alongside you and encourage you? Sometimes that is all you need to make that change you’ve been wanting to make.

 

What are you waiting for?

July 28, 2025

July 28, 2025

Happy Monday! The weekly race begins! Are you ready?

 

If we’re going to run, we usually have a goal in mind. I recently read about a premise that life presents two basic, but different, race concepts. One is the worldly version of running on our own ambition and energy. The other is God’s version, spelled out in the Bible, which describes a race that begins when we surrender our heart and will to Jesus and keep our eyes and attention on His command to “follow Me”. This is a race we are equipped to win because we can depend on the strength, energy and perseverance that Jesus freely provides.

 

Ready to make a choice?

July 7, 2025

July 7, 2025

A few thoughts to ponder following Independence Day!

 

Our God is a God of freedom!

 

Freedom is transforming!

 

When we are free, we can become the person He created us to be.

 

It was for our freedom from bondage to our natural sinful nature and its penalties that Christ came to the earth.

 

Navigating a life path on our own is encouraged by the world, but that’s an effort more likely to add bondage rather than freedom.

 

He promises us that freedom in exchange for our relinquishing control of our lives.

 

With freedom comes transformation and the renewing of our minds. (Romans 12:2)

 

We are able to replace old attitudes and ideas based on worldly concepts, conceived by the spiritual enemy of truth.

 

Freedom and spiritual truth become inseparable!

 

I would love to talk with you about the experience of freedom.

 

Is there anything holding you captive?

May 26, 2025

May 26, 2025

On a trip to Washington D.C. with my son, I took this picture shortly after a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. 

 

In the midst of a quiet time, the picture struck me as a unique visual accompaniment to my reflections on the sacrifice that so many made on our behalf to ensure the freedom that we tend to take for granted as a natural right.

 

My reflections also led me to a quote by General George S. Patton: “It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God such men lived.”

 

How much more should these sacrifices remind us of the gift that God provides to all who are willing to recognize Jesus’ willingness to give up His life for us and the opportunity that we have to accept His invitation to enjoy true freedom and eternal life with Him?

May 19, 2025

May 19, 2025

I used to read a devotion book every night with my son titled “Jesus Calling”, authored by Sarah Young. One of those devotions really caught my attention because it was so powerful. It centers on God’s love for each of us. Written as though spoken by Jesus, it reads:


“Be still in the Light of My Presence while I communicate Love to you. There is no force in the universe as powerful as My Love…If you were to experience that now, you would be overwhelmed to the point of feeling crushed…For now, the knowledge of my loving Presence is sufficient to carry you through each day.”

 

In my coaching practice I often emphasize the importance of maintaining healthy relationships. Assuring healthy relationships with others begins with an understanding of the extent of God’s love for each of us. He models His love in His Son who demonstrated His love for us on the cross. If you haven’t experienced His love for yourself and want to experience it, you can begin by praying and by reading His Word and asking the Lord to reveal it to you.

 

If you’re having any issues with relationships, or have other concerns with difficult life issues, and would like some help, just send me a message. I would be happy to talk with you.

 

Remember that God is always wanting to communicate with you, especially with His message of love. Are you learning to take the time to be still and listen for God’s messages?

May 12, 2025

May 12, 2025

Are you feeling discouraged or overwhelmed? Do you feel stuck in a difficult situation and can’t see a way out? Maybe it feels like there’s a mountain standing in your way? You need to know that there is reason for hope!

 

At times like these, I remind myself that God has promised that He has good plans for me! His plans often come to light when I set aside some time to saturate myself in His Word.  

 

The word hope in scriptural passages, like the one in the picture, might be better expressed as a confident expectation.

 

Hope provides us with a foundation! Without hope, we become lost and allow the trials and troubles of this life to wear us down. We lose our motivation to live the life that God would have us live – a spiritually abundant life!

 

God gives us access to “a living hope” through the resurrection of Jesus (1 Peter 1:3). As scripture assures us, hope is “a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul” (Hebrews 6:19).

 

Have you asked God to provide you with the hope that He promises?

April 28, 2025

April 28, 2025

I love seaglass!

 

It reflects light so beautifully.

 

It is a challenge, but ultimately rewarding when you find those colorful pieces among the little rocks and pebbles.

 

The jagged edges of the ones we choose have been smoothed to perfection.

 

Some of those pieces are better thrown back into the ocean for more polishing.

 

Choice seaglass requires work similar to that which the Lord does in shaping those willing to put their trust in Him.

 

He works on our brokenness and makes it beautiful as he smooths out our rough edges.

 

We will be perfect one day when we are with Him. For now, those of us who put our trust in Him are works in progress. He’s working on our broken condition and shaping us to reflect His light and beauty. 

 

Are you letting the Lord polish your rough edges?

April 21, 2025

April 21, 2025

My thoughts are on the message of Easter and our celebration of “Resurrection Day”!

 

Is there a day more worthy of celebration?

 

Is there a person more worthy of celebrating than Jesus?

 

The significance of Easter is not just that death was defeated once, but that we have been given the opportunity to trust in the defeat of death for ourselves!

 

There is no death for those of us who have put their trust in the Lord as believers in the gospel truth of what Jesus did for us on the cross.

 

Death does not have the last word! Jesus’ willingness to endure the cross, and suffer an agonizing death, paved the way for us to experience victory over death!

 

Is there any love so relentless as His?

April 14, 2025

April 14, 2025

Through Christ’s suffering we have victory. “Victory in Jesus” is a well known Christian phrase and hymn. The victory reflects the fact of the healing of His wounds and His resurrection from death, all of which He suffered to clear a path for each of us who put our trust in Him to bring us into His kingdom.

 

How can we not honor the Lamb who suffered in our place and was slain for us? Every day, but especially on Easter (Resurrection Day), we should concentrate on the indescribable truth that it is through His sacrifice that we are able to be healed and pardoned for our sinful ways.

 

Whatever the extent or nature of our suffering, past, present or future, Jesus has given Himself as a victory for our healing and survival beyond death itself in His invitation to live with Him in eternal life. 

 

Each of us is offered the opportunity for our suffering to be healed if we look to Him. This can be difficult when in the darkness of suffering, but if we focus on, and remember, the purpose in His suffering, there are great rewards. Our suffering and trials will likely test the strength and genuineness of our faith, but will result in praise, glory and honor for what Christ has done. 

 

As promised in the hymn “The Old Rugged Cross”, as believers, the day will come when we will exchange all of our suffering for a crown.

 

Are you up for giving thanks for His suffering, even His death, for you? 

February 17, 2025

February 17, 2025

When you understand God’s opinion of the care and attention that He put into creating you, you know that your value is off the charts!

 

You can put aside the notion that your value, in God’s sight, is measured in relation to the attributes or accomplishments of others.

 

God created you exactly as He intended. 

 

“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”  Jeremiah 29:11 ESV

 

You are worthy because God says you are worthy. He loves you to the extent that He sent His Son to die in your place so that you could live with Him forever!

 

How can you not believe that you are God’s desired creation?