Angela Mackey

I held a pen in my right-hand as I read the small gray card. It stated, “Any time, Any where, Any way, I will follow God.” At the bottom was a single line awaiting my signature to seal a contract to follow God where ever He would lead. It was a physical reminder of what it meant…

“Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,”  Ephesians 4:15 ESV All of us are drowning in sin. Whether we are drowning in ten feet of sin or 1,000 feet, we are all in need of a Savior. The truth is that humans are…

Some news shakes us and seems to tip the Earth off its axis. News like: You have cancer. Your business is in trouble. Your best friend is moving away. Your mom died. News that changes the direction of our lives, slaps us in the face, and wakes us from living on auto-pilot. While the sting of the slap…

Often life feels like a wrestling match. A grind it out, clinging, pushing, flipping, never-letting-go battle that only ends in sleep and then begins the next day. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.…

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments…” John 14:15 ESV When madly in love a man will bend over backwards to do what pleases his woman. He will write poetry, buy flowers, and even watch NCAA basketball for a whole day even though basketball is not his thing (thanks honey!). In fact when…

“So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.” James 4:17 ESV Taking care of the less than, the widow, the orphan, the have-nots has always been part of the DNA of God’s people. Part of God’s moral law included not reaping the edges of their…

“Greed hides itself from the victim. The money god’s modus operandi includes blindness to your own heart.” Timothy Keller, Counterfeit Gods (Dutton, 2009), p. 52 Greed: a selfish and excessive desire for more of something (as money) than is needed. A selfish and excessive desire for more of something than is needed… So when I selfishly want eat more…

Know, therefore, that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stubborn people. Remember and do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you…

When my circumstances seem dry and I feel brittle I always have an excuse for disobedience: I erupted at my husband (There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts Proverbs 12:18a ESV), but I hadn’t slept well the night before and I had a really bad headache. I snapped at my kids (Be angry…

Have you ever felt a tug at your heart and were sure God wanted you to do something outside of your comfort zone? Maybe ask that visibly upset person at the grocery store if you could pray for her or ask your hairdresser to go to church with you. And maybe like me you decided…