This was my front porch a little over a year ago. A big cluttery mess. Almost worthy of a visit from “Hoarders” Have you ever just been sitting there in church, minding your own business, and all of a sudden God drops a megaton of revelation into your lap? And then you realize that He probably wants you to do something about that? Something that is most likely difficult and… Continue Reading
Gunked Up Stoves and Hearts
Does God use the ordinary and mundane things of life to speak to you about deep, spiritual matters? What spiritual lesson could one possibly learn while cleaning a stove anyway? What started out to be a post centered on cleaning, procrastination and elbow grease has turned out to be something much more profound. When we moved into the house we live in now, the stove in the kitchen had a… Continue Reading
Love, Lies and Internal Tapes
If you truly understood that God loves you, it would transform your life. Every area. You would never be the same again from the moment you accepted that truth. So why do so many people struggle with moving beyond “knowing” that God loves us (because, after all, that’s what the smiley faces tell us) and believing that He does? What stands between reason and faith? thoughts… God’s word is full… Continue Reading
SOAP Devotion: The Disciplined Mind
After using the SOAP format for a few weeks, I’ve found that I really like it. Well enough to switch my devotional posts over to a collaborative blog I’m doing with a dear friend of mine, where we are both searching for God’s pure, unadulterated Truth. I’ve begun studying a book by Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Lies Women Believe and the Truth That Sets Them Free, along with the companion study… Continue Reading
SOAP Devotion: 2 Kings 8
If you are a Christ-follower, you probably want to be obedient to what God wants you to do, right? Of course, we all struggle with that spirit-led desire to truly follow Christ and our flesh’s desire to do whatever it wants. But what about when God tells us to do something that doesn’t seem to make sense? What about when He asks us to leave everything we know behind and… Continue Reading
Real (Spiritual) Health Care Reform
Sometimes conversations with God are, well, interesting. He always knows best, yet still gives us the freedom to choose. Here’s a bit of a chat God and I had this morning… “Do you see that right there?” “Yes, God…that’s that thing behind what I hate in myself…that thing that drives me to be… Continue Reading