God wants these great riches of the hidden truth to be made known to the people who are not Jews. The secret is this: Christ in you brings hope of all the great things to come – 1 John 1:1-5… Read More ›
Discipleship
A Sunday morning inspiration
Jesus said – “If y’all are seriously interested in what it’s going to take for people to recognize that you follow me, here it is. It’s really not very complicated. Ready? Love each other. That’s all. Got it?” John 13:34-35… Read More ›
evangelism as a 30-second elevator speech
Today’s second post goes back to this blog’s ongoing commitment to discipleship: “Go make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey everything that… Read More ›
Seeing Jesus in the Morning Fog
Jesus knew what they were saying, so he said, “Why are you arguing about having no bread? Don’t you know or understand even yet? Are your hearts too hard to take it in? ‘You have eyes—can’t you see? You have… Read More ›
learning more about faith – on another visit to the hospital
“For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with… Read More ›
loved, forgiven, set free, and – yes – practitioners of holiness…
We are called to be compelling evidence that God’s reconciling love through Jesus is credible, available, transformational, and invitational.
Not just generosity, but generosity of spirit…
a Matthew 25 generosity of spirit….
“You can’t improvise unless you have something to improvise from”
Who will separate us from Christ’s love? Will we be separated by trouble, or distress, or harassment, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? But in all these things we win a sweeping victory through the one who loved… Read More ›
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
“To everything (turn, turn, turn) There is a season (turn, turn, turn) And a time to every purpose, under heaven.” (The Byrds/Pete Seeger/Ecclesiastes 3…) Thursday evening I drove Rebekah over to our church campus for a couple of meetings. As… Read More ›
proposing a gratitude initiative
Today I’ll be sharing two posts: This first is an invitation to participate in an initiative of gratitude that will change your life and the lives of those around you. The second (sometime this afternoon) comes in response to a… Read More ›
