It’s an experience we face from time to time when an apparent open door of opportunity closes, and we are not sure what to do. We’ll probably hear a word with which people try to console saying, “whenever one door closes another door opens,” but how do you find and recognize the open door? Is […]

What you do when you fail or fall is just as important as any success. That’s what you’ll find when you get the back story of those who have achieved great things. Most have had moments of failure or experienced setbacks of one kind or another. Instead of dwelling on the failure or the pain […]

Decisions are made every day. In fact, most of make hundreds of decisions each day but what about the decisions we are putting off or if you please make the decision to make not decision? That is called “indecisiveness” and that is something that will hurt us in the long run. Granted there are times […]

There’s a scene in the book of Ruth in which Ruth is gleaning in the field of Boaz and Boaz instructs his men who are harvesting the field to leave some “handfuls of purpose.” Of course, to get the impact of that statement you need to read the entire story of Ruth who left her […]

There are times when you see directives in the Bible that you just think are impossible, so you just feel like not even trying. One example is the call for unceasing prayer. Like all texts in the Bible, it’s best to get the context, so please note: 1 Thessalonians 5:12–25 (ESV) — 12 We ask […]