Psalm 68 “May God arise, may his enemies be scattered; may his foes flee before him. 2 May you blow them away like smoke— as wax melts before the fire, may the wicked perish before God. 3 But may the righteous be glad and rejoice before God; may they be happy...
Jesus said He had to leave for the benefit of His followers, so the Comforter could come…. Jesus knew we would depend on seeing Him with our own eyes, on having His physical Presence, as long as we could. We could never mature in the Spirit while depending on...
The Bible tells us that God’s glory is manifest all around us in creation from the beauty of the cosmos to craggy mountain landscapes. God has used many things to capture the eye and attention of mankind and to speak to their hearts and minds. Donkeys, burning bushes,...
A friend posted that none of us are going to avoid the end of the world…. That reality she related to life being like a Catch-22 paradox. Well, living for God is a paradox ….To live for SELF is to die; to die to SELF is to live for God in Christ. When we do that we,...
I had a 7th grade English teacher named Mrs. Maddox, who told us that a preposition was essentially defined in the same way as by the manner a squirrel could relate to a tree…..the squirrel can go: over, under, to, in, around , through, to, behind, before,...
In our ministry we relate the spiritual growth of a person to that of a butterfly’s life cycle: first is the initial stage-the egg. It contains all the potential that will be needed to become what God intended. As it becomes an immature caterpillar it eats, grows and...
Physical hunger and Spiritual hunger are not the same. Physical hunger will continue until one’s appetite is satiated. Spiritual hunger is the opposite. You lose your appetite by neglecting it. If one is not spiritually fed, the more she doesn’t eat, the...
Toby Mac has a song “Promised Land” that asks “Where’s my promised land?” When God pointed my vision to a plowed field on 3/20/1997 he began my journey to find my Promised Land. What God has shown me is that it is my own life lived in Christ that IS my Promised Land…....
(The header photo is a downed pine near the school gym where my church met for a year and a half after Hurricane Michael. From the road it looked like rays of sun radiating from its smiley face center!) Charles Westerhoff, a Christian educator, described...
