Crazy?
After the flood, Noah began to cultivate the ground, and he planted a vineyard.(Genesis 9:20 NLT) Have you noticed that there are times when God calls us to move into the future, even when that action seems (in the natural) to be crazy? “Crazy” times often lead to “crazy” insight from God.Continue Reading
Small wells still water
Then He said, “To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what parable shall we picture it? It is like a mustard seed which, when it is sown on the ground, is smaller than all the seeds on earth; but when it is sown, it grows up and becomes greaterContinue Reading
Passing the Baton
One generation commends your works to another; they tell of your mighty acts. (Psalm 145:4 NIV) (After 15 years of being in our homeschool co-op and 10 years leading the choir, Friday was the last first-day for me. My kids have gone on to other classes, and we are noContinue Reading
Until all have heard
For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord [in prayer] will be saved.” But how will people call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how will they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher (messenger)? And how will theyContinue Reading
Heavy and Beauty
God is our refuge and strength,A very present help in trouble. (Psalm 46:1 NKJV) This has been a heavy week. News reports of violence have added up. In Baltimore last month a Ukrainian refugee woman was murdered in cold blood by a man with a long rap sheet but no reason to commitContinue Reading
Never again
Don’t put your confidence in powerful people; there is no help for you there.When they breathe their last, they return to the earth, and all their plans die with them.But joyful are those who have the God of Israel as their helper, whose hope is in the Lord their God. (Psalm 146:3-5 NLT) [I had plannedContinue Reading
Two trees
Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. (Matthew 7:17-18 NIV) Imagine two full grown trees. Both are planted beside a body of water – let’s say a river.Continue Reading
Dragons and discernment
“And God said, ‘Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.’ And it was so. “God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all theContinue Reading
“Cora” update
Bless the Lord, O my soul;And all that is within me, bless His holy name!Bless the Lord, O my soul,And forget not all His benefits:Who forgives all your iniquities,Who heals all your diseases,Who redeems your life from destruction,Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies,Who satisfies your mouth with good things,So that your youth is renewed like theContinue Reading
Urgency
Show me, Lord, my life’s end and the number of my days;let me know how fleeting my life is.You have made my days a mere handbreadth;the span of my years is as nothing before you.Everyone is but a breath, even those who seem secure. (Psalm 39:4-5 ESV) Last week IContinue Reading