Tag Archives: God’s peace

An Ordinary Sponge

December 9, 2014Christian encouragement, Discouraged Christian, Encouragement for Women, Freedom in Christ, Spiritual Encouragement, Surrender, Unconditional love of God, Who I am in ChristAbba, Christian encouragement, Christian life, encouragement in Christ, God's peace, Living the Christian life, Ordinary People, spiritual encouragement, spongeT.W. Allgaier

A Sponge

Have you ever soaked up liquid with a sponge? You can just sit it in the liquid and the next thing you know, all the liquid is contained in that sponge. It doesn’t seem to ever fill up.

That is us friends. We soak up what is around us. If we are around negative people all the time….we kind of get to be that way. If we are around positive people on a daily basis, we seem to change our attitude as well.

Soaking up His word and encouragement is life changing. Continue reading An Ordinary Sponge →

Is that Peace Counterfeit?

December 2, 2014Christ's rest, Christian encouragement, Discouraged Christian, Encouragement for Women, Hope, Spiritual Encouragement, To Rest in ChristAbba, Christ's rest, Christian encouragement, encouragement, encouragement in Christ, God's peace, Grace, spiritual encouragement, TrialsT.W. Allgaier

Counterfeit Peace

It doesn’t seem like you can find one person that doesn’t have some type of pain in their lives right now. Our own family is dealing with painful situations and situations that just do not seem to have answers.

And yet……

I watch as marriages are failing, lives are being destroyed by choices made and others decide that alcohol and drugs will make the pain go away.

Counterfeit…..
a fraudulent imitation of something else; a forgery Continue reading Is that Peace Counterfeit? →

Lift that Load with Thanksgiving!

November 25, 2014Christ's rest, Christian encouragement, Discouraged Christian, Encouragement for Women, Hope, Spiritual Encouragement, To Rest in Christ, Trials, TroublesAbba, Christ, Christian encouragement, Christian life, encouragement, encouragement in Christ, God's peace, heavy load, spiritual encouragementT.W. Allgaier

Lifting that Load…..

I was watching a backhoe the other day in a field near our home. It was scooping dirt, lifting it, turning and placing it in a pile behind itself. It moved with precision and did quite a bit of work. No wonder our boys loved watching these type of machines work when they got a chance!

It was quite mesmerizing actually. Boy, it sounds like I need to get a life!

But I got to thinking about our loads…..

Wouldn’t it be great if we could just scoop them up and dump them behind us?

Well, we kind of can…. Continue reading Lift that Load with Thanksgiving! →