Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry. Luke 4:1–2 (NIV) Dan Wilt writes in...
40 Days: From Poverty To Purpose When confronted with desperate poverty of spirit one comes face to face with the brokenness of her life, and mourns the death of illusion and facade that hid the truth, where she is comforted and invited into a healing and...
Just an observation……double-minded thinking reflected in memes about addiction: In one post: “Addicts are good people…..they are victims of a disease and they can’t help it.” In the very next post “Recovery …is a choice,...
“Into the solitary place we must walk with Jesus to learn the art of intimacy with God…… But in the biblical narrative, the words desert and wilderness are reflecting into Israel’s forty-year journey in the wilderness, wandering in covenant struggle...
When Bill and I got Covid-19, 2 things were very clear. He was having a lot more respiratory problems with it than I was and it made my blood pressure drop so much I had to go off my anti-hypertensive meds for over a week. So, several months later when I watched one...
Philippians 4:7 (The Message): “It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life!” One of the ways that you know Jesus is at the center of your life is you worry less. Worry is a sign that something has replaced him...
An observer of the Asbury Outpouring asked of another who wrote about it like a farmer measuring rainfall, “How do we discern true out pourings. Is it only subjective/emotional? Many are commenting that the reality of it will not be evident for some time to...
Sarah Westfall writes beautifully about a human failing called “Fundamental Attribution Error.” Most of us get caught up in a FAE at one time or another. It may be in an incidental momentary yank of the steering wheel as one overcompensates for a momentary...
I turned 69 last week. I was 15, in Southwest GA, in 1969 when the events portrayed in this movie were going on. I saw it around the fringes. But the longing that drove it was present in me, too. It would be a long journey of 23 years before the longing in me was...
A prayer partner, close confidential friend and I have a particular interest in scientific evidence of God’s work in creation, including some aspects of biblical numerology or what the Hebrews call “sacred geometry.”. She had sent me a brief video...
