Has Grace Become Too Safe? I can’t help but wonder if in the name of grace I sometimes reduce what was intended to assure me that I could live a life without fear of God’s condemnation into an excuse to live without risk from pain in relationship with others. When the first shimmerings of ...
Freedom Ballet 10 Hear, O LORD, and be merciful to me; O LORD, be my help.”11 You turned my wailing into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy… Psalm 30:10-11 It seems for many of us we are in a season of storms for our lives. Not just the weather anomalies ...
Promises I suppose all of us wonder at times if God is really watching over us. Does He really care about all the trifling details of our busy lives? Many of us struggle with feeling connected to God even when the stakes of life are at their highest! But the truth is, not only is ...
Longings I love the sunshine! There is just something there for me in the rays of warmth. I feel alive and satisfied like our cat that used to stretch out in the thin sliver of yellow laser of light through our front door. There is a sense of release and contentment with a stretch and ...
He called out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”… When he came near, Jesus asked him, 41“What do you want me to do for you?” “Lord, I want to see,” he replied. Luke 18:38, 41 Did you know that we only see a very small percentage of the light spectrum? Did ...
The Art of Dying to Self 20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21 I do not set aside ...
HEART RECOVERY I Corinthians 4 One of my favorite chapters in the entire Bible is the 4th Chapter of Corinthians. Lately I’ve been spending much of my personal meditations in the realities of this most honest description of the Christian experience. This is the chapter for those of us who feel as though we ...
LOVE FROM A DISTANCE I John 4:18 There is no greater craving that drives a person’s life than love. Yet at the same time on a parallel existence there is no greater fear we have than not being loved. Love defines everything we are, as well as what we are not. Love withheld or ...
No Condemnation ROMANS 8:1 His name wasLeon, but I got to call him Papa.Leonwas a fisherman. He filled the position with all that could be expected from a Gordon’s frozen fish commercial. He was rough around the edges, with a scent of salt and sun that lingered in the air around him.Leon’s arms were large ...
As I am writing (or I should say processing) these words, I can’t help but wonder about you, yes… you! Where are you in this moment? Is it morning for you right now, or are you just getting a late afternoon break from serving your family all day? Perhaps you are at work and wondering, ...
