Thank you, Dottie Wilson for these words…and thanks to God for giving me a vision this morning! “God isn’t preparing you for an ordinary life but one that will impact not only you but those around you. Your weakness is not an obstacle to God‘s power. When your pain is...
Sermon for 2/8/26 Christ Methodist Church-Montgomery Just recently, in a meeting at church, Pastor Misty Barrett commented on an upcoming need to secure someone to fill in for her. I said, “You know, I am not averse to filling in for you occasionally.” LOL! She...
A social media poster asked: “If the 10 Commandments didn’t exist before Moses then what were Adam and Eve “guilty” of? Adam and Eve were disobedient in following the one simple, seemingly small directive Adam received from the Lord God and...
“Gifts from God that are not acknowledged as such are deadly to the soul, because they thicken the illusion of self-sufficiency that leads to over-confidence and sets us up for failure.”. Tim Keller, Prayer, Chapter 8. I awoke in the night with someone on...
It is interesting how often the topic of patience comes up in life… In 2002, Emmaus community friends of ours with whom Bill and I each shared respective reunion group participation gave us a 1966 book entitled “Living Patiently: A Devotional Study of the...
“The gifts of the Spirit are not meant to give us a short cut to maturity. One of the dangers in the Church is we expect the gifts of the Spirit to quickly do what only the fruit of the Spirit is meant to do slowly.” -Rich Villodas Strait: (of a place) of...
