“Now a certain ruler asked Him, saying, ‘Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?’ So Jesus said to him, ‘Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God’” (Luke 18:18-19).  My prayer was that I would be saved from the humility of having to seek help…

Psalm 103:13 Just as a father has compassion on his children, So the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.  My life was a mess.  Addiction had made me unreasonable and often gave me delusions of grandeur.  I shared my small efficiency apartment on the second floor of a rundown apartment complex with more…

Isaiah 53:6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.  It can be very easy to look down on those in prison, who are homeless or on big-name people who fall morally in a very…

Ezekiel 34:16  I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak, but the sleek and the strong I will destroy. I will shepherd the flock with justice. The kingdom of God is soooo backwards from the rest of the world.  When we choose…