Praying to Flourish – June 23, 2017 – God is not only the navigator of our life, but He has been called the master sculptor as well. There is a parable that says He is the potter, we are the clay. I love that thought. He is also the gardener of our lives. Just like the Japanese Banzai gardeners who sculpt and prune and fertilize their trees, God molds us, shapes us, and encourages us to be something great in His eyes. God prunes the negativity from our lives if we let Him. But we have to let Him do 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
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
Where is God?
Where is God? – June 3, 2017 – That is the million dollar question for non believers, new believers, and sometimes, old believers. For these, God is at the end of there physical senses. It’s hard for these folks, to believe and understand that God is seven blocks ahead of them, fixing a pothole in their path, and a block behind them cleaning up their mess, and maybe walking right next to them all at the same time. I saw God on Thursday. He looked like an average 50 something, slightly overweight man that has not taken perfect care of Read More
If…Then
If .. Then May 31, 2017 If/then statements have ruled the world forever! As parents, it’s how we raise our kids and our dogs. It was an if/then statement that changed the world from what it could have been to what we know and live by today. It’s because Eve ate the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil that our lives are limited in years, there are feast and famine, disease and prosperity. God is the master of all things in our lives, we know this. IF we live to glorify Him, THEN we will have Read More
Expectations and Brokenness
Expectations and Brokenness – May 27, 2017 – Judgement, expectation, and pity are all attitudes of inequality; as well as comparison, brokenness, and condemnation. Too often though, the first group of attitudes are outward and the second group are inward attitudes. Outward attitude generally comes with some level of anger or resentment, while the inward attitudes often stem from worthiness. Outwardly, we can “bite our tongue,” but inwardly, that voice is like a foghorn that pierces every thought. We are told we should “take every thought captive,(2Cor 10:5)” and to think on “the fruit of the Spirit…self-control (Gal 5:22-23).” It Read More