Author Archives: Pete Graham

Ever throw a pity party for yourself?

As Christians, we need to look honestly at our desires and ask, “Who do I want people to remember Jesus or me?”

Few words can change a situation, an attitude, a fact like the word “but”

When the memory of rejection threatens to deaden your faith, lift your eyes past your pain, onto your Father’s face. “Grow in me!”

Can’t you imagine Jesus motioning for the kids to come to him? I envision the children crawling up on his lap and Jesus laughing and playing with them. Truly, “Jesus Loves the Little Children.”

If you dump out your backpack you may find many useless and dated items. For days , weeks and even months you have be carrying around unnecessary weight.

“God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.” – Vance Havner

The adults in your life may give you volumes of “speeches”, trying to share good advice or teach you “a lesson”. But when one of those gems of truth stick in your head for months and even years, you know it made an unforgettable impact on your life.

Do you know the love of God?

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life