I’m not the best at staying positive. This morning my thoughts kept sifting through what wasn’t working or what I wasn’t doing. I couldn’t get past the feeling of not being good enough. Not wanting to write an uninspired blog post, I quieted my mind and sought the Holy Spirit. What he had to say …
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! Matthew 7:11 ESV I don’t know about you, but I have an innate pleasure in giving gifts. I miss the days when …
For “In him we live and move and have our being”; as even some of your own poets have said, “For we are indeed his offspring.” Acts 17:28 ESV We exist, have our being, because of Jesus. The apostle, John, tells it like this: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with …
During this season of giving our focus can be so invested in what presents we’ll have under the tree that we may forget what people really need, the gifts Jesus was born to give. The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the …
In my last post, For Unto Us a Child is Born, I wrote about the birth of Jesus as it fulfills prophecy. In today’s post let’s see what his birth holds for us. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word became flesh …
Now that December is upon us, I’d like to look deeper into the birth of Jesus and why he came in the way he did. Today we’ll look at three scriptures. For to us a Child shall be born, to us a Son shall be given; And the government shall be upon His shoulder, And …
Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. Instead, he gave up his divine privileges; he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form, he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a …
Nothing, anything, and everything. These are the things of God we’ll discover today. First in line are the positive and negative poles of nothing. That’s right, you heard me. I’ll show you what I mean, starting with the negative— For apart from me you can do nothing.John 15:5 NLT The me in this scripture is …
I hear the Lord saying, “I will stay close to you, instructing and guiding you along the pathway for your life. I will advise you along the way and lead you forth with my eyes as your guide. So don’t make it difficult; don’t be stubborn when I take you where you’ve not been before. …
Lately I’ve been reading novels that are reworked from popular fairytales. What has struck me is how the protagonists are oblivious to the obvious. Like the common girl who meets a mysterious man in an enchanted woods who is obviously the crown prince. As the reader, I had it figured out in the first part …
The Far Reaches of Grace 