My word for 2020: “Grow”…….in grace, in obedience to God’s will, in the fruit of the Spirit, in spirit-soul-body, in all the ways that God has intended and ordained….. “Behold, the bondslave of the Lord; may it be done to me according to...
Less of me…… more of Thee…… And we shall be changed……. Inspired by my bedside digital clock at 2:00 in the morning. I awoke. Looked at it and saw within the hollow center of the digital “zero” a cross! Bill says awaking in the middle of...
What is one thing God has taught you during this Advent season that you want to keep close to your heart? Though timeless, God abides in each second. Though without a physical body, God abides in anybody who invites him in. Matthew 4:16 “The people living in...
Are you ready for an awakening of faith? What holds you back? Perhaps lack of imagination? Jesus was not recognized by the Jews of his day because of their conditioning to expect the prophecies about the Messiah to be fulfilled in keeping with current circumstances,...
“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....
