The joy in coming into agreement with God's Word and will
Photo courtesy: moxon.net This post is about how to act like a camel, so bear with me for a moment. Every once in awhile I come across a familiar verse and see it in a whole new way. There's this little section in my Bible they call "word wealth" and it aims to reveal the... Continue Reading →
Do you ever come up against people or arguments that are so one-sided, so determined to remain in their own four walls that you genuinely don't know whether it's worth it to fight or flee? I watched a fascinating video yesterday posted on the Sheologian's website about what happens almost weekly at an Arizona Planned Parenthood... Continue Reading →
"But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace." James 3:17 A few weeks ago, I was walking past my kitchen table and... Continue Reading →
"When the world says, "Oh, you're narrow," you say, "Maybe I am narrow, but the way is narrow, and the path to heaven isn't as broad as a 16-lane highway. You know why I am too narrow? I'm walking with my God." AW Tozer I'm going to go out on a limb here and say... Continue Reading →
"We want to matter to the people we think matter. We want the people we think matter to single us out. We want them to spend time with us. We want them to invite us in. We want in. Left on the wrong side of the door, we can regress into eighth grade versions of... Continue Reading →
"You are loved harder and longer and more urgently than the ending of any Jane Austen novel." Lisa Jo Baker, Never Unfriended This quote cracked me up. If you've ever read through or watched a Jane Austen story, you know for the most part, it all shakes out in the end. The tangled relationships somehow... Continue Reading →
Our pastor said something at church this morning that really stuck out to me, I jotted it down on the notes section of my phone... (which says a lot, because I barely know how to use the notes section of my phone). He was speaking on evangelism, which at first, made me scrunch up my... Continue Reading →
"Unless you are convinced that in the blood of Jesus when He died on the cross there was included, as a purchase of that blood, your right to a full, Spirit-filled life - unless you are convinced of that, unless you are convinced that it isn't an added, unusual, extra, deluxe something that you have... Continue Reading →
"and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit..." John 15:2 The pruning knife. A much maligned and misunderstood concept for us believers I think. John 15 was always one of my favorite chapters to read, admittedly I didn't really understand much except that Jesus said He was the vine... Continue Reading →
In the Bible, the Hebrew word for peace, shalom is a deeply meaningful word. More than just the absence of conflict, shalom is an expression of wholeness and completeness. In Colossians 3 Paul gives us a beautiful picture of believers living together in shalom and it's far more than just a static absence of conflict. "Therefore, as... Continue Reading →
Into the Foolishness of God 