What do you want?
“What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asked. Mark 10:51 (NLT) Picture the scene...Santa, jolly and round, sitting in a big overstuffed chair in a department store filled with shoppers and children. The line snakes around the tree with little ones, eyes big,...
A Thanksgiving Prayer
A favorite author, Jill Briscoe, wrote this Thanksgiving prayer that I'd like to share with you. May your Thanksgiving day be filled with love, family, friends, and thankfulness. "As we embark on this week of Thanksgiving there are so many things to be thankful...
Learning to Breathe
By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done. Genesis 2:2-3 (NIV) I have...
Three Guys
Or suppose I were to pour out my fury by sending an epidemic into the land, and the disease killed people and animals alike. As surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were there, they wouldn’t be able to save their own sons or...
Your Story
So God has given both his promise and his oath. These two things are unchangeable because it is impossible for God to lie. Therefore, we who have fled to him for refuge can have great confidence as we hold to the hope that lies before us.This hope is a strong and...
Something New
Look, I am about to do something new. Now it begins to happen! Do you not recognize it? Yes, I will make a road in the desert and paths in the wilderness. Isaiah 43:19 (NET) My blog, Flashlight, began 13 years ago, just before we moved to Arizona. At the time, I...