God’s Work – June 22, 2017 – How does God want us to live? God wants us to be coachable, I think. Coachable at the speed of His voice. God speaks to us with a small voice from inside us, from the voices of those around us, the words on paper that we read, and the actions of others that we see. His Holy Spirit is inside us and all around us. Some call this voice inside intuition, or gut feelings. Whether you’re a believer or not, that internal voice is unmistakable. Trouble comes to us when we don’t listen Read More
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God’s Word is Good
God’s Word is Good – June 21, 2017 – What do you think when you hear a toddler say, “Enormous” and it has an idea of what that means? What would you think of the parents? Would you wonder what they are teaching the child? Sure you would. I would, we all would more than likely. God gave us language to be able to communicate with others. God gave us His word to know Him. He gave us His son Jesus to be able to communicate with Him. Enormous is the volume of knowledge and wisdom contained in these 66 Read More
Serving in Concert
Serving in Concert – June 20, 2017 – What does it mean to be in concert? I’m not talking about a rock concert here, but to be in concert, with yourself and with others. It is “in agreement; have a plan or a combined action; to be in harmony and accord.” So to serve in concert would then imply to be in harmony, taking a combined action, and having a plan to benefit someone else. Benefiting someone else takes wisdom to know and understand what they need, and taking the action to fill that need. When Jesus washed His disciples’ Read More
There’s Comfort in Silence
There is Comfort in Silence – June 15, 2017 – How can we hear through all this noise? There’s so much chattering noise in the world today that people can’t just rest and hear what’s going on around them. The noise seems to be louder in the urban areas rather than the rural areas as we would think. Although that is very true in the sense of noise in general, the real noise is within our homes, within our head. I’ve witnessed the real problem to be the noise within our own house. The TV shows and movies we watch Read More
Driven
Driven – June 14, 2017 – What does it mean? Desire, ambitious, obsessed, passionately motivated toward a goal. Aren’t those qualities we want and should have? Especially toward God. If we ”Delight ourselves in the Lord; He will give us the desires of our heart. Commit our way to Him, Trust Him also, and He will do it.” (Psalm 37:4-5) This is tough, though! We as human beings are inherently control freaks. Delight means to experience great pleasure or enjoyment, which comes from knowing someone or something deeply. That takes commitment. “Commit our way to Him” means we have to Read More
Perfect Together
Perfect Together – June 13,2017 – Today as I read these pages I have a flood of memories and emotions from my past, both as a kid, and as a dad with my kids. The time I spent with my dad was special. Equally, the time I spent with my kids was a cherished part of my life. Today I live almost two hours away from my dad, and I journey to see him for a few hours once or twice per month. I don’t remember any of the bad days or the bad moments. My wounds have healed, my Read More
It is well with my soul
It is Well with my Soul – June 9, 2017 – Good morning, I hope all is well with you. What I really mean by that is, I hope all is well with your soul. Our soul includes all the deep parts that make us who we are. The last line from Mercy Me’s new song “Even If” is “It is well with my soul, It is well, it is well with my soul.” Those lines penetrate and resonate deep within me. They are of course lines from an old hymn written by Horatio G. Spafford in 1873 “It is Read More