Water of Life
Do not let mercy and truth leave you. Fasten them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. Proverbs 3:3 (GW) I have recently become familiar with an app for my iPad called One-Minute Pause. It was developed by John Eldredge, a best-selling...
Blooming
Let the skies rejoice and the earth be glad. Let people everywhere say, “The Lord is king!” Let the sea and everything in it shout; let the fields and everything in them rejoice. 1 Chronicles 16:31-32 (NCV) "Bloom" was my word for 2020. How ironic since...
Law or Grace?
If you have died with Christ to the world’s way of doing things, why do you let others tell you how to live? It’s as though you were still under the world’s influence. People will tell you, “Don’t handle this! Don’t taste or touch that!” All of these things deal with...
Gleanings
So Ruth gleaned in the field until evening. Then she threshed the barley she had gathered, and it amounted to about an ephah (about 30 pounds.) She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gathered. Ruth also brought out and gave her what...
A New Way
Do not be shaped by this world; instead be changed within by a new way of thinking. Then you will be able to decide what God wants for you; you will know what is good and pleasing to him and what is perfect. Romans 12:2 (NCV) 2022 is almost over. This has been a rough...
Joy
They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away. Isaiah 35:10 (NIV) Isaiah 35:10 (NIV) Some years ago I heard an interview on Good Morning America about telling...