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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

Behold the Christ

I LOOK PAST APPEARANCES AS I GIVE AND RECEIVE THE BLESSINGS OF GOD’S LOVE.

We cannot judge others until we have lived life as they have lived it. Because it is impossible for us to live any other life but our own, we are never in a position to judge others. We can know only fragmentary aspects of a person or a situation. The necessary elements to make an unbiased and fair judgment cannot be gathered by appearances. Jesus taught, “Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

Observe yourself closely. Aren’t there times when you say to yourself, “Did I really do that?” or “I can’t believe I said such a thing!” Would you like to be judged when you have acted in ways that do not correspond to your true self? With these experiences in mind, learn to withhold judgment of others.

Learn to behold the Christ in each person, realizing that everyone is following a different path of life experiences. Look not for differences but for that common bond among all people, the bond that we share as children of God.

Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Matthew 7:1-2

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.