Living Your Faith

Encouragement For Your Journey With God

Seek the Lord While He Can Be Found

Seeking God

How do we truly seek the Lord? This question has been marinating in my thoughts for the past few weeks.  The answer seems pretty straight forward, but there is more to it than meets the eye. The Big Picture As Read more…


Stand Firm in a Day of Shifting Sand

Stand Firm

Shifting Sand We live in a day where the beliefs of society are like shifting sand. Firm footing is hard to find. Like the time of the Biblical Judges, today “everyone <does> what is right in <their> own eyes” (Judges Read more…


Don’t Worry, You CAN Hear From God!

Hearing God

India fascinated me. I had always wanted to go. I finally had a chance for an all expense paid trip, but I heard the Lord saying it was not the right time for me. So, I passed on the offer.  Read more…


The Father’s Heart

by Col. Gary Nelson (ret), my wonderful earthly father!  A few years ago, I was planning a Sunday school lesson on The Father’s Heart.  While I was driving home one day in rush hour traffic, thinking about the subject, suddenly Read more…


The Key to Lasting Happiness

Would you like the key to happiness?  It is money, fame, power, adoration? Nope, none of those. But I can tell you what it is! Does that sound too good to be true?  It’s not!  The key to happiness and Read more…


The Pearl of Great Price

Pearl of Great Price

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls.  When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.”  Matt 13:45-46 During Roman times pearls were an elusive Read more…


Times and Seasons

I have been pondering recently how to navigate a new season in which I find myself.  As I did, the Lord brought to mind Eccelsiastes 3:1, which in the NKJV says, “To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under Read more…


God’s Plan for You

God's Plan

I know God’s ultimate plan for you! You may think me presumptuous – but it’s true.  He has laid it out plainly in His Word.  It is the big overarching theme of the Bible. It is revealed through the lives Read more…


No Regrets

“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.”  Ecc. 3: 1 A Different Track When I was 38 I was still single, never married, and quite satisfied.  But it wasn’t always that way. Growing up I Read more…


Choices

We all face limitless little choices every day: what time to get up; how to exercise, if at all; what to eat at each meal; how to dress; what to watch, read, attend; do I answer that call, text, email; Read more…