Sunday morning’s baptism had to be one of the sweetest I’ve ever witnessed.
Sunday morning’s baptism had to be one of the sweetest I’ve ever witnessed.
It’s the day Easter Sunday, it’s the beginning of the second week of creation. Jesus is waiting for us to enter into all the fullness and the promise!
There’s a season for everything and a time for every matter under the heavens: a time for giving birth and a time for dying, a time for planting and a time for uprooting what was planted, a time for killing and a time for healing, a time for tearing down and a time for building …
After John was put in prison, Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God. “The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!” – Mark 1:14-15 Well, Rebekah survived her first Sunday back in church! She not only preached twice, and taught the, …
It is an absolutely beautiful Sunday morning here in Wake Forest. The sun is shining, the snow is glistening white, and the temperature (14-degrees when I walked the dog) is a bracing 18! The neighborhood has turned into one solid sheet of ice, topped with a couple of inches of powdery snow.
I’m always reluctant to employ hyperbolic language (no, seriously, I really am…), but I have no alternative than to use words such as “unprecedented,” “overwhelming,” and “epic” to describe the number of views garnered by this blog over the past few days! This is the first time ever I’ve seen three consecutive posts register more …
There is an insistent voice to springtime, as all creation picks up the echo of Easter morning. “Get up!” “Get moving!” “Join with God in the continual re-creation of this world!” Live into your salvation!”
As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. There is one body and one …
It’s Palm Sunday! I’m back home! I’ll share guest blogger Rebekah Maul’s Lenten devotion for today. Peace – DEREK “Hosanna!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! “Hosanna in the highest heaven!” Jesus entered Jerusalem and went into the temple courts. He looked around …
Today I’m running Rebekah’s latest WFPC Lenten devotional. If you’d like to receive her Lenten meditations every day, contact me through http://www.derekmaul.com and shoot me your email address. Peace and blessings – DEREK “Where two or more are gathered in my name, I am in the midst of them.” (Matthew 18:20) We were a covenant …
