It draws me close to Christ, the way Jd Walt of seedbed.com’s daily Wake Up Call takes us into the Word and gives us choice morsels which feed our spiritual appetites…… zooming into this scene for a close up of Jesus’ hands filling the baskets...
I had thought that God’s blessing to “a thousand generations” of one who loved and was obedient meant chronological and biological generations taking hundreds of years that one person would never see, but that was promised to one person and gives...
I am neither a theologian nor an academic. I am not called to preach. I am not called to persuade anyone. I am a follower of Jesus Christ and a lover of all the ways in which Christ is revealed. I am called to teach and want to share the ways in which God leads me to...
What can be discovered in small accountable, confessional “banding” together (in the Wesleyan sense) for Christian spiritual growth: Romans 15:14 14 Personally I am convinced about you, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness,...
Why is a water tank up high? It is pumped into from a well or collects rainwater to mete out to those in need within the reach of its flow. Then it releases water vertically downward with enough force that when water hits the bottom it is forced out horizontally into...
Excerpted from: Grace and Lies: A Mars Hill Story Clifford Smith on January 26, 2023 (Published at Juicy Ecumenism Website) ……Mark Driscoll had had a stormy and controversial history. This author’s story struck me a bit shockingly. This is an...
Modifying William Bridges Diagram of Transitions to relate it to the process our women experience has given them a visual way to think about where they are……. at the beginning of the end of their chaotic life of the past or at the end of the beginning of their...
Jesus fed 5000 but only 500 followed him after lunch. He had 12 disciples but only 3 went further in the garden, and only 1 stood with him at the cross. The closer you get to the cross the smaller the crowd becomes. (T F Tenney ) As Gina Christian adds: “But...
My pastor preached Sunday on Christ’s direction to his followers to care in fuller, more compassionate ways than the culture. The text was on the Good Samaritan. A key word in the text was the way the Samaritan had compassion for the Jewish man, attacked and...
