1. **Grace-Filled Growth**: God understands our limitations and meets us where we are. Our spiritual journey is more about transformation and growth than about arriving at a state of perfect understanding. Embracing grace means accepting our imperfections and those of others. 2. **Personal Jour...
This is one of those passages of Scripture that lingers in the air and echoes in the mind long after it’s been read. There is nothing that can separate us from the love of God. That’s one reassuring promise. There’s no one else who can make a promise like that and keep it. Ha...
Another confidence-building scripture is tucked into the book of Nahum: “The Lord is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him” (1:7). If we put our minds to it, every one of us can attest to the truth of those statements, because the Lord is go...
I praise you Lord God, that your Word is living and active. No matter how often we read a passage or hear a scripture story, you can breathe fresh life into its meaning and impact. The Christmas narrative is no exception.As we read and hear again the grand story of Jesus’ birth, ma...
we’re empowered to do His will and more than we ever thought possible. Now I know that on this side of heaven I will never perfect the art of being fear-free, but as I live in God’s love, spending time getting to know Him better through prayers, reading scripture and meditating, ...
Maybe, most likely, there is something more going on than meets the eye. May you and I sink deeper into compassion. It is a fruit of God’s love. “…when he (Jesus) saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were distressed and scattered, as sheep ...
However, God meets us in exactly those places. When we walk closely with Him and do precisely what He commands us, He does the rest. God met Noah, provided the means and skills to build a gigantic ark, directed the animals to him, brought the flood, dispersed the water after over a ...
The point I want to address today is this myth that walking with God prevents us from all pain, suffering, hurt, loss, grief, or even pain in the body. People who believe that it does, I question if they have read the full counsel of scripture. Jesus plainly stated that in the world...
He meets us where we are in our faith journey and adds enough to help us through. After that He had the disciples bring Him the bread and fish and He blessed it and began handing out the pieces to the disciples who then distributed it to all those people. Amazing! Matthew 14:19-21 ...
fresh, green pasture. Sometimes the trail between pasture in Yosemite Valley and Toulumne Meadows might be terrifying to the sheep. They wouldn't know where he was going. If they had been people they would have second-guessed their shepherd: "Do you know where in the world you are going?