Break up Fallow Ground
Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and showers his righteousness on you. Hosea 10:12 I am not a gardener. But I am glad to sit in a garden or stroll through a well manicured…
Meaningful Lyrics
Of late, this song has really ministered to me….. Tell your Heart to Beat Again by Danny Gokey, Hope in Front of Me Album You’re shattered like you’ve never been before The life you knew in a thousand pieces on the floor Words fall short in times like these When this world drives you to…
Jesus is the Author of my story
Last Sunday we had the privilege of celebrating the story of the 5 martyrs in Ecuador who opened the door for the Waorani people to find faith. One of the things that Jamie Saint shared really got me as I struggle with trying to edit God’s story. All of a sudden it became clear to…
Hinged on grace
I am once again struck by the incomprehensibility of grace. God’s scandalous response to sin and death and hell is amazing grace. I fear I am too quick to deny grace in my own life, let alone in the life of anyone else; I tend to diminish it and push it away in my effort…
Ears to Hear- Day 45 – Acts 21
Our church is reading through the New Testament this year. I wrote the devotional thought today. Response by Miriam Mohler Student Ministries Administrative Assistant For me several things rise to be noticed. The first is that everywhere Paul stops on his way back from the missionary journey, there were opportunities to build relationships and connections.…
My Spiritual Birthday
I grew up in a home of Christ Followers and went to church every Sunday. We had family devotions at dinner and went to summer camp at Forest Home as a family. My church family became a place of relatives, the blood ones all lived far away, full of “aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, etc”. So…
FAITHFUL
I was thinking this morning about God and his wild imagination. I continue to be grateful for His great faithfulness and yet we live in a culture that does not notice or affirm faithfulness; worse yet it bores us because it is the routine, the habitual and the evidence of things expected, therefore we take…
Longing for Water
Ps. 63 talks about longing after God and thirsting after God. It strikes me in a fresh way when I think about the man who wrote it and his circumstances. David, a man after God’s own heart, sinned and in the long term consequences he lost children, was driven from the kingdom and his home,…
Baby Steps to the Throne
Today I am pondering the idea that I am not even thirsty, even when I have not had anything to drink. I stand in the worship center on a Sunday morning and I hear the singing of favorite songs. I glance around the room and it seems that I am the only one who does…
Wells that don’t hold water
The thing about water is that I don’t crave it when I have only been filling myself with other things. When I use water as my main thirst quencher, the other things, like sodas, are tasty but they don’t quench thirst as well. I think that is true spiritually as well! When I am unsatisfied…