by Doris Swift | Apr 17, 2014 | christian living, love, promise, sustain, trust
Ever have a glass-half-empty person say you weren’t able to achieve a dream or a goal? Hopefully it drives determination in us, but often times we find ourselves believing the negative. Why do we do that? Why do we listen to whispers of defeat before we even...
by Doris Swift | Apr 12, 2014 | baggage, burdens, Christian, encouragement, faith, hope, Jesus, relationships, surrender, worry
While reading through my Facebook news feed, I saw that a friend had posted a scripture verse from Romans. After posting it, she caught an error. Instead of using the word “bondage,” the word “bandage” was used. How strikingly similar these...
by Doris Swift | Apr 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
Striving for perfection is exhausting; serving with excellence as unto the Lord is rejuvenating. Serve in newness of the Spirit. But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not...
by Doris Swift | Apr 3, 2014 | christian living, encouragement, faith, fear, financial issues, God, Him, hope, Jesus, testimony, trust
As a young girl growing up in north Jersey, opportunity to see the Atlantic Ocean came maybe once a year. It was quite a drive to go “down the shore” as we called it. I have fond memories of those summer vacations; excitement of the first hint of salt...
by Doris Swift | Mar 21, 2014 | Christian, christian living, encourage, encouragement, goals, God, integrity, success
Ah success. What does that word mean anyway? Ask a hundred different people, and you’ll hear a hundred different answers. But what does it mean to you? I loved English in school; it was by far my best subject; “A’s”, praise, and amaze....
