I am discipling a middle-age woman with no childhood experience of religious practice but a growing realization that the only way she is going to gain power over her addiction of 25+ years is through Christ. (She has been in 7 recovery programs and multiple detoxes in...
Discerning the enemy’s ways and rejecting them can take a long time and hard experience. Dan Wilt’s lingering reflections on the opening verses of Luke 4 in the Wake Up Call at seedbed.com have given me time to reflect on some of those experiences in my...
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...
