The Daily Memo | December 14, 2023 | Finding Help in God’s Presence
Whenever you’re feeling down, the Psalms are an excellent source of comfort and encouragement. In Psalm 42:5-11, the psalmist shares how God offers comfort to you, His child, in hard times. To receive it, you should … • Look within. Before you can deal with despair, you need to know what is causing it. If […]
The Daily Memo | December 7, 2023 | Order Please | An Excerpt from Embracing Brokenness
There was order in the Garden. Everyone had an assignment. Work was part of the creation story. Adam was to tend the garden, with Eve’s help of course. The ground wasn’t cursed so work was a joy. Imagine that! Joy at work. The word joy is not often associated with work. But with no sin […]
The Daily Memo | December 4, 2023 | Acquiring Discernment
Discernment is the ability to make sound judgments by perceiving what is not readily obvious, and it is critical to our life in God. For example, what should you do when you want to follow the Lord but have multiple choices that appear promising and good? How can you know if you’re hearing from God […]
The Daily Memo | November 17, 2023 | Unbreakable Love
Scripture presents Jesus of Nazareth as both fully God and fully human and says that Jesus avoided sin entirely. He never misses the goal of loving every human being in the ways of God. He teaches his followers that the most important instruction from God, the one that sums up the whole law and the […]
The Daily Memo | November 13, 2023 | Inseparable From Christ
In times of pain and adversity, we might feel as if God has abandoned us. If He were here, we think, He would have done something by now. However, today’s passage says that nothing can separate us from Christ’s love: • Not events. There isn’t any circumstance—no matter how bad—that can remove us from divine […]
The Daily Memo | November 10, 2023 | With All Your Heart
The heart is the connecting point, the meeting place between any two persons. The kind of deep soul intimacy we crave with God and with others can be experienced only from the heart. I know a man who took his daughter to dinner; she was surprised, delighted. For years she had been hoping he would […]
