Posts with the tag “faith”

God speaks to me in a multitude of ways, but I haven’t always heard His voice.During my younger teen years I thought God was done with me. I hadn’t heard His voice but kept being told God speaks. This made me feel like God didn’t want to reach me because I couldn’t hear Him. After years of growth and hardship I now look back and realize I was plugging my ears to what God had to say. I didn’t want ...  Read More

Sometimes it is so hard to not see what you want, what you pray for and what you know is God’s heart for the ones you love the most. I love my children deeply but I desire them to know and embrace God’s love even more. I think it is even more difficult when my wife and I know, in spite of our imperfections, that we spoke God’s truth to and over our children. We have vivid memories of planting the ...  Read More

My dad and I did not have a good relationship for a long time. I honestly just wanted to be away from him. I want to be away from most people most of the time, but especially him. A year after my parents got divorced, I began coming to church. I started to see that church was helping me. I realized God was always with me and I could talk to Him. He was pulling together my mental health and showed ...  Read More

I grew up in a small town in the heart of Illinois called Chicago. I grew up in a Christian home with my mother and five siblings, in a two bedroom apartment on the city's south side. We, for the most part, were happy and we had Jesus in our lives. Mom was the daughter of a southern pastor and we came from a long line of God fearing down-home southern Christians who knew and spoke the word of God ...  Read More