#dicipleship

I can very well understand how unhappy you feel. Try, however, to become absolutely quiet inwardly, and believe that God loves you and wants to help you, even if this belief is attacked by doubts again and again. Then your fear will be slowly overcome.

If you try to fight your emotions with other emotions, you will only become more confused. You cannot straighten out your emotions, but you can trust in God: he knows your deepest heart, and he can straighten you out. Believe in him alone.

God often works through common, “uneducated” people like you and me

How many times have you gotten excited about a new job, a new project idea, a new relationship, or even a new recipe to soon after have discouraging thoughts about why you wouldn’t be the right person for it? I hear ya. I can honestly admit that I’ve dwelled on negative thoughts that have flooded my mind way too many times. I often find myself meeting with new people and almost always the…

or how to drop the work and start a friendship.

Recently I have been challenged by the story of a UK youth worker (James Vaughton) who decided to quit his job as a youth worker and spend his time investing in his own children and just one or two young people in his church. No more time organising social get-togethers, sending and answering emails, collecting permission slips, planning and preparing relevant, interactive bible studies. No this youth worker has courageously put his money where his heart is and is actually living the youth work mantra ‘People not programmes.’