Life on Mission 2016
What a joy of looking forward to the new year. Yet I find myself in a strange transition as I become more aware of what GOD wants me to be and do rather than what I have always planned. This process of sanctification I have studied and researched int he lives of others but as […]
Stop Stopping Suffering
It is the western culture in me that looks at suffering and needs to stop it. We spend millions of dollars trying to bring an end to suffering. Our medical culture has become pill crazy in am effort to fix the suffering of people. Something is wrong with our mind set. Something is amiss. Everybody […]
Who Talks about the sheep at Christmas?
This time of year everyone that knows the Christmas Story talks about the shepherds. But who talks about the sheep? Luke 2:8–9 (ESV) And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of […]
Bible Battering Ram – Matthew 6
Don’t you love it when someone means to hurt you and you turn it into a learning experience? Oh what fun! Had this verse thrown in my face today. I love this verse and use it often. So I may as well take it head on! Matthew 6:2–4 (ESV) “Thus, when you give to the […]
Context is King
sometimes a verse needs context … sometimes the verse is the context. Ever have that conversation where the person is using a verse with no real understanding of the person speaking or the audience it was being communicated to? Quick questions to ask when looking at a verse Who wrote this? Who was he speaking […]
Hanukkah Night
There are so many things I love about my family. Tonight my 12 year old daughter just off the cuff explained how to play Dreidel for Hanukkah! Like NO prompting, just a comment that I need to find my orange dreidel I have had since I was a kid. Boom, “Dad, I remember the rules.” […]
Abundance of Grace
The more we grow in grace, the more shall we flourish in glory. Though every vessel of glory shall be full, yet some vessels hold more. — Thomas Watson Are we living a life for Christ out of the abundance of God’s grace in our lives? Are we praying to be stretched to overflowing and […]
Bullies
Been thinking a lot today about bullies. I have been a volunteer a few days a week at “the little’s” school and have been first hand at several bully events. Let me put a few out there as I ponder and see if you can identify or track in your own life. The puncher: […]
Hard Questions
A hard question in one of my devotionals this morning. Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? — Oswald Chambers Sanctification means that there is a change that happens. God Takes you as you (salvation) are and makes you something different (sanctification). If you are not seeing the hand […]
Off the Map
We are headed off the map … well not really off the map, but off the cell phone coverage for a week and I am a little nervous. So I am learning a few more tricks to make my digital life still available downloading movies and filling up sd cards with books that I may […]