I can’t handle a dirty, crumb-laden counter when I sit down to write. Before I place my computer on my black-granite counter, Ineedto have a clean counter. Ineedto have fresh space I can work on. Ineedto have the ability to work without a million little pieces surrounding me. Thi...
“There is a complete vulnerability and weakness and brokenness that takes us to Him in a unique way, where He truly can shine through all of the broken pieces.”– Michelle Hord Narrator: If you would like to know more about Michelle Hord’s story, you can find h...
And especially atchurch, we see God’s fingerprints when an impassioned congregation sings their praise to him, a saint of God offers a heart-touching prayer, someone shares a personal story of divine, miraculous provision, or a scripture-reading fits perfectly our current circumstances. No doubt...
Our five senses help us connect with God more intimately in solitude. Many people call itQuiet Time—moments they spend with God in scripture reading/study, prayer, perhaps journaling, and/or listening to peaceful worship music. It’s in the quiet we begin toseeimportant realities of the spir...
We all know the first part of this scripture in John where “if we ask anything in My Name, I will do it.” This is a real faith-builder! But attached to this awesome promise is a caveat. Yes, it’s the “IF” word. IF YOU OBEY MY COMMANDS.” The victories in our everyday ...
It only takes one word from you, to shift dead things into living things. Revive us again. Awaken us to the Father’s love and purposes again. Move us past seeking you for selfish gain, to surrendering all that we are, to all that you are! Give us heavenly perspectives, and courage ...
I would argue that this is the solution to the larger issue of struggling with the state of our prayer lives or Scripture reading or anything else. As we focus on Jesus, we stay on the path toward becoming like him. We may stumble and fail, but when we get up and continue we remai...
That Scripture uses two names for God is merely due to linguistic idiomatic peculiarities, as "Jerubbaal" is also named "Gideon."The Living God. God is living because He, the Creator of the world, can not be thought of as without life (i.e., self-consciousness and knowledge of His ...
Against this Vorstius and the Anthropomorphites object, that, in Scripture, a human shape and figure is given to God; he is said to have eyes and hands. It is contrary to the nature of a spirit to have a corporeal substance. 'Handle me, and see me: for a spirit hath not flesh an...
Those first Christians couldn’t deny their experience, or the witness of Scripture. Christ was God. The Spirit was God. But that posed a conceptual problem. How can the Three be One? How can the One be Three? Mathematics or logic can’t solve this puzzle. Several centuries of ecumenical...