A recent conversation with a missionary with more than three decades of experience discussed the sad state of Christian marriages. More than anything, he has seen marital conflict derail and destroy those who came to share the Gospel in his country as new missionaries. Their inability to solve conflict sent them home, many of them …
Not to Brag, But My Valentine Is Jesus
This week has left me depleted, confused, and in doubt of my calling. Forgive the transparency if I just fell off a precarious pedestal. Ha! My plans for this post had been to highlight the love we can show God through obedience. Jesus said, “If you love Me, keep My commandments.” It is a great …
Radical Reconciliation Before Worship
Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? 1 Corinthians 6:7b Joni Eareckson Tada, who has spent more than fifty years in a wheelchair after a diving accident, often reminds her listeners, “God allows what He hates to accomplish what He loves.” While she refers to …
Worship: Loving God with All My Mind
8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true…think on these things. Philippians 4:8 Who has walked through the valley of depression without learning a few lessons about how thoughts and emotions intertwine? Anxiety, panic attacks, and highly stressful situations can also teach us a similar lesson. It may seem like emotions are in the driver’s seat, …
Worship: A Personalized Journey
Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me. John 21:22 If there is anything that trips up my personal worship of my Savior, it is the same comparison trap Peter struggled with in his post-denial, post-resurrection conversation with Jesus. Paraphrasing, Peter queries, …
The Word
Advent Day#25 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John 1:14 Gaze with wonder at the Word made flesh, Consider the chaos that His birth did consist. The One who spoke Light …
O Come, Thou Dayspring
Advent Day #9 To give knowledge of salvation unto his peopleby the remission of their sins,Through the tender mercy of our God;whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,to guide our feet into the way of peace. Luke 1:77-79 When …
Jehovah-Jireh: God Will Provide Himself a Lamb
Advent Day #8 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel;for he hath visited and redeemed his people,And hath raised up an horn of salvation for usin the house of his servant David;As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets,which have been since the world began: That we should be saved from our enemies,and …
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The Long-Awaited One
Photo by Doralin Tunas on Pexels.com Advent Day 1 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations. Matthew 1:17 The anticipation of the long-awaited Messiah had ebbed …
You Can Go Home Again
As a bird that wandereth from her nest,so is a man that wandereth from his place. Proverbs 27:8 This verse caused me to count the cities my family has lived in over the years. Since my childhood years in central Kansas, I have only returned to visit. Marriage scuttled us down to three diverse cities …
His Song in the Night 