by Jodie Stevens | Jun 4, 2018 | Choices, Hope |
For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To one we are the aroma that brings death; to the other an aroma that brings life (2 Corinthians 15-16). Jesus Christ is the giver of the Holy Spirit through...
by Jodie Stevens | May 29, 2018 | Choices, Emotional Difficulties & Addiction, Forgiveness, Happiness, Hope, Love |
“You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the un-godly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were...
by Jodie Stevens | May 21, 2018 | Choices, Fear and Anxiety, Happiness, Thankfulness |
“As pharaoh approached, the Israelite’s looked up, and there were Egyptians marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the Lord: “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die?” (Exodus 10-11) Moses tells...
by Jodie Stevens | Apr 29, 2018 | Choices, Emotional Difficulties & Addiction, Forgiveness, Happiness, Hope, Love, Thankfulness |
One definition of ‘trade’ reads: “To exchange articles of more or less even value.” I traded in: Addiction for freedom; anger for peace; loneliness for love; self-pity for empowerment; emptiness for fulfillment; shame for honor; failure for success; aimlessness for...
by Jodie Stevens | Apr 25, 2018 | Choices, Happiness, Hope, Love |
“Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us” (Ephesians 3:20). I was on a hike with some friends a while back when I tried to catch a photo of a beautiful butterfly but I wasn’t fast...
