Give

There is a story in the Old Testament of a widow who came to the prophet Elisha begging for help. She was a single mother with two sons and no money to pay her bills. Someone was coming to take her two boys and make them slaves. She had nothing except a small container of…

Contentment

If you had enough money to buy one amazing thing, what would you buy? How much money would it take? How would your life be different because you bought it? If you had enough money to dramatically help one person, who would you help? How much money would it take? How would your life be…

On a Positive Note

When I lived in Michigan, I was a leader of an adult Sunday school class in my church. One of the more popular studies we did was call Faith at Work. The class was fun to teach because of the variety of occupations represented by the dozen or so adults in the group. We did…

“Don’t Worry. I Have a Plan.”

In today’s passage we are instructed to not be anxious. Let me start right off by confessing that I struggle with passages from the Bible where God tells us not to be afraid, not to worry, or to cast all of our anxieties on Him. Is worrying sinful? If God commands us to not be…