Have you ever passed by a well or fountain, surrounded by laughing children and their parents doling out pennies? Hopes, dreams, wishes, all bound up to a little copper disk at the fingertips of a child. Maybe you remember yourself at that age, looking down into the water, speckled with all the shiny wishes that…
How to Use Paul’s 8 Weapons of Righteousness
My kids have a weapons rack. It consists of things like nerf guns, wooden and foam swords, sling shots, cardboard shields and armor, everything a little boy needs to defend his kingdom, storm the castle, slay the dragons, defeat the bad guys and rescue the princess. Even at their young ages they understand the battle…
The 4 Reasons Why I Celebrate Christmas
Why I Celebrate Christmas My faith is not blind. My favorite thing to read is my Bible. I know how weird that sounds, unless you’ve read the bible too. If you have, then you know what I’m talking about. It’s the unfolding of the human drama from creation to its future finish. The bible is…
Custom Fitted Calling
Had a strange dream last night and woke up with thoughts of custom clothing. I was trying to fit into something that wasn’t made for me. Buying dresses, and most clothing for that matter, is a nightmare for anyone who is not of average shape or size. I am 5’ tall, with wide hips, a…
Do Christians Really Care… About the Red Cup?
I was thinking about the Bible. I love the Word of God. It’s just like real life. Jesus was and still is so misunderstood by people. Lately on social media there has been this “Media Controversy” about the Starbuck’s plain red holiday cup. Frankly I’m disappointed to see my unbeliever friends posting mean things about…
Spiritual Metabolism
I read a Bible verse a few nights ago that got me thinking about the difference between muscle and fat. Psalm 119:70 “their (the insolent) heart is unfeeling like fat, but I delight in your law.” Most of the time the heart is used symbolically. The heart, while muscle, is also considered the seat of…
Psalm 107 Part 6 – There is no God Like our GOD
I have loved going through Psalm 107 and using the truths within it to share my testimony of how God has been working in my life. The Lord has taken me from teenage desperation to learning the daily practice of trusting Him for my spiritual and practical needs. The conclusion of this Psalm offers continued…
Psalm 107 Part 5 – Business as Usual
Sometimes life is just business as usual. We get in the groove of family, work, church, weekend fun. We’ve seen the mighty works of God, but then we drift, ever so slightly, into self sufficiency. A kind of “what have you done for me lately?” attitude toward God. We feel like He’s busy somewhere else,…
PSALM 107 PART 4 – FOOLISH IDOLATRY & REDEMPTION JOY
In my last post I laid myself bare. The sin I fell in, the sin I walked in, the sin I reveled in. Because of these things I became a captive. Though I was a child of God I lived foolishly, according to my own selfish desires, until I ultimately reached a breaking point. Rock…
Psalm 107 Part 3 – Captivity & the Shadow of Death
We continue with part 3 of our look at Psalm 107, The Captives. This is the hardest part of my testimony to share, it’s me at my worst, it’s the lies I believed and the sin I let myself have, but because of God’s work in my life through these things it gets Him the…