The meme above is from a beautiful second cousin of mine in Oklahoma… Robyn Baldwin Langston From thoughts in my own journal 12/13/03: …..I was in prayer for a weekend retreat and as a part of my prayer time, I re-read the story of the walk to Emmaus. When...
……..”My Grandmother.”……..That is the most common answer. “To what?”, you might ask? To the question: “Who represented Christ for you in your life? Who showed you something of God’s character when you were...
A young man who started college this year wrote about his first semester experience, making the transition from high school friends to new friends in college, and finding God at work in new relationships: “God used the people we loved to answer our...
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...
