At www.spiritandtruth.life Matt Reynolds’s diagnosis and prescription for the current state of the Church seems to sum up the same thing that the Lord has taught me and confirmed again and again through the last 32 years as a born-again evangelical believer....
At 3:23 A.M. today, 6/27/2022, the Lord woke me up reflecting on the past week’s event…. a devotional from The Seedbed Daily Text on Thursday,, 6/23, and the Dobbs case decision from the Supreme Court of the US on Friday, and the alignment of the two with...
In the Pope’s General Address in St. Peter’s Square yesterday, (This post was originally written 6/26/2014) he pointed out the necessity of connection with church…..”We have seen that God gathered a people to himself in the Old Testament and in...
Jesus also told them to “go and sin no more..” If they continued sinning he didn’t love them less, but they were not included in the fellowship of followers or given the keys to the kingdom…..two parts to relationship with God…....
I have an ongoing project on Christian growth that examines parallels between our growth with what Luke 2:52 says about Jesus’ growth…..one of the pitfalls of discipling others and evangelism as “church” Christians is that people expect us to...
When I complain about small and inconsequential obstacles, I am reminded of Joni Eareckson Tada, confined to a wheelchair since her teen years, a quadriplegic, and yet she perseveres in kingdom work. I want to spend my last ounce of energy on the last quarter mile,...
You will recognize this quote, though you may not recognize the one who spoke the words. The Rev. Martin Niemoller was one of the heroes that stood against the terrors of Nazi Germany. Because his sermons contained sharp criticism of Nazi paganism, he was sent to a...
6/25/17…. on Pentecost still Psalm 104:4 You make Your messengers like the winds; the breeze whispers Your words, Your servants are like the fire and flame. Hebrews 1:7 Concerning them, God said, I make My heavenly messengers like the winds, and My servants like...
This picture, Jesus Calms the Storm, has hung in our home for 25 years, since the season of a fierce storm that blew from the four corners of the earth and would have destroyed my mind, my family, even my life but for the presence of Jesus with us in the boat. There...
My “coming of age” was the 60s and 70s… feminism, ERA, first generation college in my family, women’s liberation, Vietnam protests, “hippie” cool culture. I have borne children twice-1973 and 1975. With the first, at 18, I believed...
