19 Jul 2017

Working Myself Out of a Job

by | posted in: knowing, spiritual life, Teaching | 0

  I have been pondering again……                                                                                                7/19/17 I think I have discovered a spiritual gift that will not exist in heaven!  And it is one that has been given to me….in essence, as I pursue it I am working myself … Read More

29 May 2017

The Fixx

by | posted in: Life Recovery, spiritual life | 0

                                                                                                                                  5-29-17 The word “lifehack”  has come to mean a cheap, quick, easy adaptation that addresses an immediate need or offers an alternative solution to something more costly and permanent. The Urban Dictionary offers this: Life hack (or life hacking) … Read More

30 Apr 2017

Simon or Peter?

by | posted in: spiritual life | 0

I’ve always been intrigued by Simon Peter’s name change dubbed by Jesus and the way in which, at particular times of reprimand, Jesus would resort to his former natural flesh-life name and when Jesus was seeing something more promising and … Read More

27 Apr 2017

Isaacs and Motives…..Laying Them Down as a Sacrifice to the Lord

by | posted in: Scripture Studies, spiritual life | 0

Christ’s teaching of the authority one has to make the choice of surrender or not, the free will of each of us, and one’s knowledge that because of the power of that choice to surrender, anyone may come to the Father through Christ, even those who offend the religious elite, is what got Christ crucified.  It offended them when he said it in the synagogue in Nazareth after his baptism and it offended them here at the end of him ministry, described in John 10:13-19
“I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me, 15 even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. 16 I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice; and they will become one flock with one shepherd. 17 For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again. 18 No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from My Father.”  19 A division occurred again among the Jews because of these words.
Matters of motive, authority, sacrifice, surrender, free will, and who gets in and who doesn’t…….Such things divide those who pursue the letter of the law at the expense of the spirit of the law.  .
 

22 Apr 2017

Boundary Setting In Relationships of Abuse

by | posted in: boundaries, counseling, Facing fears, Faith, God's will, marriage, spiritual life | 0

             There are occasions when meek, emotionally-controlled, wounded women come to Titus 2 who have been subjected to abuse in one or more forms- emotional, physical, financial, sexual, psychological, spiritual, or relational. They often have learned to be “people pleasers” … Read More

1 2 3 4 5