“Ask, Seek, Knock” is a concept the Lord had me explore deeply years ago…. Asking implies curiosity or a desire for information, but not necessarily a deep desire to know. Seeking suggests that one has a good idea of what it is he is looking for,...
For 2020 (and forever): Daily hosting Christ in my heart, inviting God to be The Transcendent, The Immanent, The 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- “Expecting...
Whole-heartedness is called for again and again in God’s Word. When I was ten I gave my little baby-heart to Jesus….all that I knew of myself to all that I knew of Him. I recognized the sinful nature of humankind, even my own, and the need for a Savior....
Dr. Sandra Richter’s anointed teaching, including The Epic of Eden, appears to have many people seeing the continuity of biblical themes from Genesis to Revelation more clearly. In a recent group conversation about seeing God’s plan in Scripture, I made a...
In a Facebook discussion there was conversation about “idolatry.” Such discussions always take me back to the ways in which God has dealt with it in my life. I had sought deacon ordination in The UMC starting in 2008 and was discontinued in 2017...
Respecting the Limits (Boundaries) of Others – Boundary Resistance Role in Developmental Delays(Adapted from “Boundaries” by Cloud and Townsend; Boundaries and Children chapters) Each child needs to learn to accept the limits of parents, siblings, and friends....
One meme on Facebook offered this: “Jesus sat down and ate with sinners, did he not? That doesn’t mean he supported what they did. But it also didn’t keep him from loving them.” I have been pondering the nature of godly love and what...
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...
Annual Report and Disclosure for 2019: Titus 2’s ministry is a state-incorporated, 501c3 authorized small, 5 bed intensive discipleship ministry for women with life-limiting dysfunctions including substance abuse, mental health challenges, unresolved grief and...
Years ago the Lord put a tune in my heart and taught me to sing Psalm 23 to the tune. Later I discovered that the tune is the Welsh Blessing and it is in one of the older UMC hymnals with the hymn lyrics “Sent Forth By God’s Blessing.” The Lord put that tune in my...
