A few years ago, my daughter was at a ministry school where she was taught all sorts of valuable things. She sent a text message one afternoon that said the following: "They're blessing all the married couples' sex lives right now. Passing it on!" My first thought was: How did she know? My second thought [...]
I've been thinking a lot these days about obedience and how big of a part it plays in our relationship with God. In recent years, there has been what seems to be a downplay of the word, of the acts that imply mute submission to a supreme God when the reality of his love and [...]
In everything you've gone through in the last few years, there's one thing that is profoundly true--God is with you. God is with you. Whether income was non-existent, or anguish hit, or business was shrinking, or health failed, or you couldn't do what you loved, he was with you. He's still in you and around [...]
Some of my latest musings: We are here to serve others with our very best amalgamation of our skills, talents, experience, knowledge, Holy Spirit fruit, and personality. This means we have to leave the house from time to time and actually talk to people in person. Imagine if husbands tagged their wives on every post [...]
I've been thinking a lot this week about the difference between faith and hope. Faith is what you have when you can see the outcome in your mind and you believe it will happen. Hope is what you have when you see an optimal outcome in your mind but you don't believe it will happen. [...]
"There is a nahar (river), the streams whereof shall make glad the Ir Elohim, the Kedosh Mishkenei Elyon (the holy dwelling of the Most High). Elohim is in the midst of it [i.e., the Ir Elohim}; it shall not be moved." -- Psalm 46:4-5 OJB You are the holy dwelling of God. The streams of [...]
What if the sword in Jesus's mouth is to speak such truth in love that all hopelessness, lies, judgement and pain are washed away in whoever hears his words? What if the fire in his eyes is to touch the soul and spirit so deeply with love that all brokenness is healed in whoever looks [...]
Brene Brown says women want to know they are enough, but go deeper and you're asking, enough what? And we answer, enough everything. Which isn't logical. No one is everything. So then we come back to purpose and say, enough me. Which means we have to find out who we are before we can figure [...]
People judge all the time, and then they post their judgments online for all to see. Religion, lifestyle, clothing choices -- assumption after assumption about people they have usually never spent the time talking or listening to. Public shaming for those posts, or creating more rules to stop them, is not the answer though. Neither [...]
I've always been interested in the word fullness, because to me it signifies the longings of the heart. Because of that, I've always loved Ephesians 3:14-19, so I thought I'd take that interest a little further and look up the word fullness in the Greek. What I saw blasted me in the best way, because [...]
