• Voices
    Featured,  God's voice

    Three Voices We Often Mistake for God

    Learning how to discern God’s voice is no easy task in the life-long spiritual walk of a believer. Some voices are pretty easy to weed out of the cacophony of voices that talk at us, to us, or around us throughout our day. After all, any seasoned disciple of Christ knows to compare what a particularly persuasive voice is saying with what the Bible says.  But not all voices are easy to separate from the herd, in particular, the ones that come from within ourselves. While most people would be willing to admit that God is probably larger and more powerful than we generally give Him credit for, many aren’t necessarily…

  • Featured,  obedience

    Of God and Grocery Carts

    When the Lord first nudged me to wheel the grocery cart into the stall specified for them, I did it without question.  But then there was a next time, and a next time.  Every time I went to the grocery store, I felt the Holy Spirit gently reminding me to put the cart back. I found it a little irritating.  I have to confess that I very rarely put the cart back before this, and my conscience did not suffer for it.  I wasn’t  inconsiderate.  I put the carts where they could not damage any cars.  I often anchored them to the middle island nearest me so they would not…