“Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides.    You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely.    Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient […]

“Don’t love the world’s ways. Don’t love the world’s goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father.   Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him.    The world and all […]

Jesus, undeterred, went right ahead and gave his charge: “God authorized and commanded me to commission you: Go out and train everyone you meet, far and near, in this way of life, marking them by baptism in the threefold name: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Then instruct them in the practice of all I have […]

“Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down.    It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your […]

“Show me how you work, GOD; School me in your ways. Take me by the hand; Lead me down the path of truth. You are my Savior, aren’t you?    Mark the milestones of your mercy and love, GOD; Rebuild the ancient landmarks!    Forget that I sowed wild oats; Mark me with your sign of love. […]

“We plan the way we want to live, but only GOD makes us able to live it.”‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭16:9‬ ‭MSG‬‬ Good morning! Are you up? Do you have a plan for your day? Maybe it’s full. Maybe not so much because you are adhering to the “stay at home” mandate due to the Covid-19 pandemic.  You […]

“The first thing I want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know.    Pray especially for rulers and their governments to rule well so we can be quietly about our business of living simply, in humble contemplation.     This is the way our Savior God wants us to […]

“The people I love, I call to account—prod and correct and guide so that they’ll live at their best. Up on your feet, then! About face! Run after God!”Revelation 3:19 MSG A prodding God. He cares enough to urge, exhort, motivate, provoke and stimulate you to live at your best!  He wants you to live…REALLY LIVE! […]

“So we’re not giving up. How could we! Even though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without his unfolding grace.    These hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming good times, the lavish […]

“We look at this Son (Jesus) and see the God who cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see God’s original purpose in everything created.     For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels— everything got started in him and finds its purpose in […]