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This website is dedicated to the work of Rev. Joyce Kramer (1930–2022), one of America’s most prolific inspirational ministers whose influence has spread across the globe. Explore her practical teachings for living a happy, healthy, prosperous life—and check back frequently as we add new resources from the goldmine of Joyce Kramer’s spiritual writings and recordings.

Daily Blessings

Be Original

Like Jesus, I dare to be different! I am transformed by the renewing of my mind.

Are you afraid to be different? Do you copy the behavior of others, the customs of others, the thoughts of others? We are told in the Scriptures that we should not conform to the world, but rather be a new and a different person by renewing our mind.

Yes, it is easy to conform. It is harder to be different—to think fresh new thoughts of our own. How exciting life becomes when we do cease to conform and begin to see life in a new light. When others say, “It can’t be done,” how wonderful to know that it can! When others say, “What would the neighbors say?” how free we are if we can only be concerned with what God reveals to us.

Jesus dared to be different. He startled the people of His day. He was criticized by the masses, but it did not matter to Him, for He was standing on a solid foundation. It is not important to be different just for the sake of being different, but if standing for Truth at all times makes you different—know that you too are standing on the solid rock foundation.

Be transformed by the renewing of your mind. (Romans 12:2)

Radio Broadcasts

A New Year

Dial-A-Blessing Messages

The Power of Imagination

Sermons

Launch Out

Your Divine Plan

By Rev. Joyce Kramer

Transcript of a radio broadcast by Rev. Joyce Kramer, January 21, 2014.

What do you want out of life? Do you know? Few people have any real concrete picture of just what they want out of life. Consequently it seems that they live at the mercy of someone or something other than themselves. Thus we have the belief that we are the victim of things over which we have little or no control.

Each and every person is created with the ability and the power to determine his own future. Man is not at the whim of fate, luck, or chance. Neither is he created to be at the mercy of another person [ . . .]

The Joyce Kramer Ministries logo depicts a dogwood tree planted across the entrance to the church that Rev. Kramer founded in Virginia Beach. Transplanted from her brother’s property in Charlottesville, for eighteen months the tree seemed nothing more than a lifeless stick in the ground. Finally, on a Wednesday afternoon, the decision was made to dig it up, but the lawn maintenance man did not have a shovel with him. The next week, he said, he would come back and discard the dead tree. But that Sunday when Rev. Kramer arrived at church, she noticed a single leaf had appeared on the otherwise barren stick. They left the tree in place, and it grew into one of the most beautiful on the property. This flowering dogwood represents the message of Joyce Kramer Ministries: Growth is always possible; never give up.