I am currently 53% into reading the Bible in a year. I love reading Gods word, soaking up the history and the stories of great men and women of faith! Not that it has been easy to read it every… Read More ›
Love
Learning from Jacob’s Art
The business of the creator is not to escape from his material medium or to bully it, but to serve it; but to serve it he must love it. Dorothy Sayers, The Mind of the Maker Anyone who has ever… Read More ›
God so Loved…
God so loved the world He gave His only Son God so loved the world He let His only Son Die God so loved the world He allowed His Son to experience all temptations Jesus so loved the world He… Read More ›
Beautiful Scars- When I was a Christian
For a long time God has been nudging me about the need to be part of a community that not only shares their story, but speaks of redemption. An honest connection for sharing how God has used our scars as… Read More ›
You Are Not Alone
“…I’ll be with you as you do this, day after day after day, right up to the end of the age.”—Matthew 28:19 (Message Translation) What do you do when you are feeling all alone? Far too often, for far too… Read More ›
Love Lost
What do we do when we are met with love unrequited, When we have brothers and sisters living lives of hypocrisy, When the face of man is seen for what it truly is? I remember sitting in the campus pastor’s… Read More ›
The Big Picture
Looking at the big picture can be both comforting and scary. When we are dealing with the affairs of our lives, we must have an idea of what we are dealing with, to make an informed assessment of the big… Read More ›
His Love Endures Forever
Can we ever give “enough” thanks to the Lord? Where would we be without Him? True we might have a good life, but what about when we leave this life, what happens then? We certainly would not be living the… Read More ›
Why Church, Inc. is a Bad Idea
Is the church an incorporated business with the pastor as the CEO? That is pretty much the model many churches gravitate towards. In some there is a board which, along with the pastor, controls the church. Churches vary in the… Read More ›
The Sacrifice of Christ
The Crucifixion , by Vouet, 1622, Genoa A friend of mine recently posted about how Christ was scourged before being crucified. This got me to thinking today about that, and all of what happened at Calvary. Jesus before all this… Read More ›
Love Has a Face
Love has a face, a real face that someday we will be able to see. Do you believe this? 1 John 4:8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. Note in the text of the above… Read More ›
“Make every Effort”
For the reason that we have escaped “the corruption that is in the world” and have been allowed to “share in the divine nature”, we are to “make every effort to supplement [our] faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, knowledge… Read More ›