For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. – Romans 1:16
My name is Cheri, and I’m a Bible-believing Christian.
This is how I’d like to introduce myself, because if you were to know just one thing about me (besides my (more…)
Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. – 2 Timothy 3:12
This morning I read a story about Atlanta Fire Chief Kevin Cochran, who was fired because of the biblically aligned content of a teaching materials he had written for his church. This came on the heels of another story of a substitute teacher (a Gideon, (more…)
Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me.—1 Corinthians 4:16
I never looked like anyone in my birth family. My mother had medium brown hair, dark skin and blue eyes; my sister was blond, blue-eyed and big-boned; then there was tiny little black-haired, green-eyed me. “You must be adopted,” I heard more than once—from extended family members, no less.
In fact, everything about (more…)
Wars and rumors of wars. Persecutions. Plagues. Disasters. I have to admit I’ve been having a bit of a tough time knowing how to pray for as I watch the world churn. And I can’t be the only one. And when I read that “all these are but the beginning of birth pains” (Matthew 24:8), I find little consolation. If all (more…)
We broken humans often get ourselves into a fix-it mentality. When our personal or professional lives are a mess, we try to find a quick fix that we can apply so we can move on. When those fixes fail, we come to find out that the problem is—gasp!—us, and there’s no quick fix for that.
So then we focus on fixing those (more…)