i went to see Angel Studio’s “His Only Son” movie this week. Now I need to go see it again. At one point as Abraham knelt in humility and heartbreak before the Angel of the Lord, the theophany of God, His hand reached out to him in what appeared to...
I have a young friend who receives motivational texts daily through an app she downloaded. Today as I drove her to work she said, “Some days my motivational text isn’t very motivating, like this one today!” (See below.) Her motivational text and her...
John Fenn of KWOWI (Kids Without Walls I International) offers a great perspective for this day snd the days to come! What “Is Risen” Means” Early Christians in Rome were buried outside the city in the catacombs. A catacomb is an underground...
Our Seedbed.com Wake Up Call devotional this morning was on the final verse of Luke 4: “When the devil had finished every temptation, he left Him until an opportune time.” It caused me to reflect on opportunism, as I have before when thinking about the satan’s...
From 8 years ago: When our faith stands at the grave,grieving for a stone that’s rolled away, forgive us. When our faith is short of understanding though the truth is there to see, forgive us. When our faith, beset by doubt, sees no further than an empty tomb...
This was written 3 years ago today, during nationwide COVID lockdown, by a friend …. worth repeating…..From Deborah Holstine. ( thank you) … Yes.Yes.Yes! After the President’s news conference was over, one of the reporters made the observation that...
The subject of “trust” comes up regularly in different conversations and contexts. Worth noting: From Len Wilson in “ministry matters” article from 2016: Prospect Theory is the idea that we fear loss more than we value gain. In other words, the...
There is only 1 Jesus Christ. He sacrificed himself for each of us and for all of us…. If you don’t like that I have boundaries that prohibit me from accepting responsibility for or making sacrifices on behalf of you or someone else against my will,...
The Holy Spirit distinguishes Himself from all other spirits by His holiness. The Bible uses “holy” in two ways. 1.) exalted or worthy of complete devotion as one perfect in goodness and righteousness. : divine. “Great is the Lord in Zion; he is...
Today I was considering how often I have to hunt for scissors and I remembered how my Daddy always carried a knife. He was often using it. To cut a rope for a tarp on a truck, to clean out around the rim of something, to clean his nails while scrubbing his hands, etc....
