Evening meditation: The Lord has had me for several days reflecting on the dual nature of one’s relationship with Him….captivated by His steadfast love AND enjoying intimate fellowship through living in righteousness. And the reality that we can know that...
It is the imperfections that reflect our history and experiences. Since God is present with us even in our difficult times we have no reason to hide them or feel ashamed because of them. Christ retained his scars in the resurrection so our Lord clearly believes that...
Jesus also told them to “go and sin no more..” If they continued sinning he didn’t love them less, but they were not included in the fellowship of followers or given the keys to the kingdom…..There are two parts to relationship with God…....
Why we include emotional literacy, values education, sharing our lives as well as our testimony, and the importance of interdependent living at Titus 2: The Most Private is Often What Resonates the Strongest The pyschologist Carl Rogers, a person who would know quite...
1/2/2021 reflection What am I doing today? THIS: Mentoring women into work-and-worship-ordered lifestyles. Today and everyday. One of today’s take aways: You are not what you do. God desires that you would DO what you ARE. What does the world say you are? What does...
Notice how undergoing these transformational processes requires enduring intense pressure, persevering through chronic irritation, and patiently awaiting the change……
Sometime in the last decade or so, someone had given me a photocopied page of a story. I do not know the source. It has the page number “166” and the top of the page says “A Gentle Thunder”. I do not have a copy of Max Lucado’s book by...
One cannot disconnect the New Testament from the Old Testament or one verse from another. It comes to life in our hearts and minds by the Holy Spirit of God in us only as we embrace it in its entirety and begin living obediently to God in it. I have been coming...
Resolution for the New Year: Daily hosting Christ in my heart, inviting God to be The Transcendent, The Immanent, The Intimate Indwelling One according to all that THE GREAT I AM desires to be in me. There was a time when I signed personal correspondence with this-...
Adolescent reflection at age 17: “To say that one is wholly and undeniably happy is to lie. For how are we, such shallow beings, to determine those things which have gone to the utter depths of our souls and left them scarred with sorrow? Does not every...