Real Live Faith

The end of one year and the beginning of another year is always a good time to look back over one’s life and ask where God has been moving and what He has been doing. It’s a good time to reflect on the big moments of the year, the challenges, and the victories. For believers, […]

We live in a world that is searching for peace. Many people would give anything to have peace in their life and sadly, many people just don’t know where to find it. Instead of going to the Source of peace, it seems so often we look in every other possible place we think it may

This year my son helped me hang Christmas lights on the outside of our house. We began by unraveling each of the strands of lights and laying them out in the driveway. We plugged in each strand, testing them and making sure they worked. As we were swapping out the burnt out bulbs I noticed

A few years ago, I was deer hunting with my husband. We went out to sit in a ground blind together as it began to rain. As we sat there, I thought, “Man this stinks! How are we going to see any deer?” However, I noticed that while it was raining there were no sounds

Can you believe we are already into the month of November? I cannot believe how fast this year has gone by! You know as we look at November, historically in our culture, it’s a month of thanks – and social media is one example. We can look and see all these posts of people counting

Some of you guys may be familiar with my testimony. I’ve shared before but for those of you who are not, I was saved at the age of 25 in vacation Bible school when I had taken my daughter. When my husband and I joined that church, I didn’t really get plugged in as far

Many of us have heard about the fruit of the Spirit and have had many questions about it: Why is it called fruit when there are nine things listed? If you have one, but you can’t really see much of the other, then is it kind of an all-or-nothing concept? Or, are we good with

There are many things in society that are common to us. For example, if I were to ask, “How many of you have either experienced firsthand or know someone who has gone through a divorce, endured abuse, grieved the loss of a loved one, endured domestic violence, or have gone through alcoholism, or drug addiction?”

Has somebody ever asked you for advice? Have you ever given someone godly counsel? Do you live by the same godly counsel you give? If you give someone guidance or try to direct them in a certain way, yet you don’t live by that same standard, you just might be a hypocrite. You may feel