Prayer for our needs
To pray is nothing more involved than to let Jesus into our needs. To pray is to give Jesus permission to employ His powers in the alleviation of our distress. To pray is to let Jesus glorify His name in the midst of our needs. –Ole Hallesby What happens when we pray? What happens when […]
Burning Bones
As I child we sing “This little light of mine” and we talk about a light that can not be hidden. Then we grow up and our “Christianity” becomes a light we turn on and off. Discovering when it adds to us or subtracts from what we want to accomplish. I don’t think we intend […]
Everyone wants a BB-8
Yeah … I want one. I don’t need it but I really want one. It will go on the list but eventually. I will either buy one or build one.
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 […]
More sheep
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them. Ezekiel […]
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 […]
The Lord is My Shepherd — J. R. Miller
“The LORD is my shepherd; I have everything I need!” Psalm 23:1 The shepherd is a favorite Scriptural picture of the divine love and care. In the Old Testament, the twenty-third Psalm gathers the whole wonderful truth in exquisite lines, which are dear to young and old wherever the Bible is known. Then in the […]
In The First Light – Glad – Lyrics
In The First Light – Glad In the first light of a new day No one knew he had arrived Things continued as they had been While a newborn softly cried But the heavens wrapped in wonder Knew the meaning of his birth In the weakness of a baby They knew God had come to […]
December Quotes 2015
Love the joy of this season. “How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, His precepts!” — Benjamin Franklin “You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father’s face and tell him you have received his Christmas gift.” — John R. Rice “All the Christmas presents in the world are worth […]
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 […]