Living By Faith Blog

My wife edits all my blog posts. This time she helped me see that one of them wasn’t very good. Here’s my wimpy attempt to fight off defensiveness and hurt.

I crave applause. I love recognition. So I thought I’d go to war against my pride, and let you listen-in, hoping this might help you in your battle against sin.

I was trying to pray, but kept getting distracted. Here’s how God overcame my distractions — and transformed my prayer.

I’m ashamed to admit this, but Sunday morning before church all I wanted was for the service to be over. Here’s why — and what God did to change my heart.

It’s 4am and I’m awake — hammered by rapid-fire, out-of-the-blue fears, doubts, and worries. What to do? Here’s what happened yesterday morning.

I was driving to an appointment — discouraged by problems and disappointments. Five minutes later the discouragement had vanished. I was changed by one word. One Spirit-empowered, heart-changing word.

Left to myself my emotional life isn’t pretty — ranging from blah to neutral and then back to blah. Which is why what happened this morning was so unusual — and so encouraging.

Monday Jan and I left for what we thought would be a 2-night getaway in Pacific Grove. But as Jan said: “God had other plans.” So how do we fight the fight of faith when our plans are disappointed?

This morning I woke up worshiping an idol. So I thought it would help me — and hopefully you — to write a blow-by-blow account of the battle.

This morning I was fighting one distraction after another during my Bible reading. So here’s what I did — and how God met me.