Stepping out in faith…
Image by bertvthul from Pixabay It's been a rough week. It's tough to make sense of all the mudslinging going on right now. Here is a link to the sermon this blogpost is based on. So, I think it's important that we pull back and regroup. Let's look at what's in the Word. But when …
Image by Welcome to All ! ツ Love, Harmony & Peace from Pixabay Did you ever think about what kind of a person Joseph was? Mary, the mother of Jesus, was pledged to be married to Joseph. How he handled learning that his wife was with child before they had been together is pretty remarkable. …
I'm learning to trust in his hand on my life.
It's been said that God works in mysterious ways, and I certainly believe this. My devotional this morning took me back to a blog post I recently wrote about keeping your eyes on Jesus. The writer of the devotional said that he believed: ...that experience deepened Peter’s faith and made him willing to take great …
Photo taken during the clean up. The above photo was taken after a fire destroyed everything in our detached garage. It showed up in my Facebook page today. This happened 9 years ago and I am reminded of the circumstances that were going on in our lives at the time. We had just been challenged …
On the night Peter betrayed Christ, he stood around a charcoal fire. It's not hard to imagine that as Peter reaches shore, his senses were flooded with his past. (As dawn broke there was probably a rooster or two crowing in the background.) - Taken from Jon Porter's sermon 5/10/2020 I'm going to go ahead …
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God does not promise us to remove us from our captivity, but He is always equipping us to make the most of our stay. (Image by Ichigo121212 from Pixabay) Did you ever ever find yourself in a place you didn't want to be? A captive of sorts. Hope is not a tactic. We can't just …
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. - James 5:16 Image by truthseeker08 from Pixabay This morning as I was doing my morning devotional, the topic was prayer and how hard it is to …
Has your focus always stayed the same throughout your life? I'd be surprised if you said yes. My experience has been that it goes through phases depending on our place in life. When I was a child, the world focused around me. My days were spent playing and spending time with the adults in my …
The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; Psalm 24:1a “Mine!” Did you teach your child to feel like certain things belonged to them? We may think that we didn’t actually teach them that word and maybe we didn’t purposefully. But, children learn by what we …
