Tips for today:

Tips for today to be more like Christ: Serve others Be compassionate Be humble Be the unexpected Do these characteristics of Christ and: You’ll be blessed. When I read Matthew 20:20-21:11 the above God-like qualities stood out.  These described Jesus’ personality...

Complete satisfaction

You ate a phenomenal meal and your tummy felt satisfied. You completed your presentation at work and were quite satisfied that you presented it well. You finished an exam a school and walk out of the room thinking that your test score was satisfactory.  You played...

Did you get that?

Psalm 17:6, “I am praying to you because I know you will answer, O God.” —Did you get that?  God will answer your prayer.  Exodus 1:23-25, “Years passed, and the king of Egypt died. But the Israelites continued to groan under their burden of slavery. They cried...

I'm sorry.

Sometimes all you want to hear from someone are the words, “I’m sorry.” I’ll never forget the day my dad and I had “that” conversation (see https://soakinguptheson.com/2012/07/07/therapy/ ).  I asked him if he was ever sorry for what he had done.  He admitted it and...

Psalm 16:7-11!!

When I read Psalm 16:7-11 my countenance just lit up.  You know I’m a threat to read the scriptures in multiple versions, so I took pieces of my four commonly used versions (NIV, NLT, ERV, and The MSG) and combined them together to remake this portion of the Psalm.  I...