Shaking Like a Leaf. It is a phrase I've heard many times before. Overhearing someone talking and using the phrase "shaking like a leaf" isn't something that ordinarily would cause a light-bulb moment for me. It is a phrase I've heard quite often in my life. The phrase generally is referred to when someone is scared, anxious, cold, or excited. But the point of this article is to talk about the first word I listed: "scared". Sometimes God will inspire me with a word, a scene going on ...
Sufficient, Sustaining Grace
Death of my former pastor a month ago. Little angel babies sick. News of cancer in the community. The sound of a helicopter flying over me, taking a church member to the city hospital. Bad news is everywhere. Everywhere you turn, you find someone is suffering, someone is hurting, someone is just keeping a head above water. It's hard to cope. You wonder why God doesn't just take it all away. Why doesn't He just make everything better? There is a word that came to me this morning. Grace. The ...
