Do you know the tactic Satan used to deceive Eve in the Garden? It was simple really. Simply by referring to God by an impersonal name, devoid of His character, the enemy caused her to question much about God and therefore, the rightness of His singular command. You can see this by taking notice of Satan’s subtle, yet strategic, shift of language in Genesis 3. Except when Satan speaks, every time God is referred to in the second creation account and story of Adam and Eve, two

Have you ever been hurting; I mean really hurting, and God’s Word and other’s remarks, kind and true as they might be seemed hollow? I certainly have. When I was falsely accused of child abuse, I heard and received notes with the typical, Christian platitudes, from well-meaning people wanting to encourage me. Sadly though, after my son was taken away, I was terribly angry at God. I quit reading his Word and was, therefore, no longer open to God's words of love and comfort