Spring hasn’t quite sprung
Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers. (3 John 2 NASB) The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. (James 5:16 NLT) I aim to write a variety of posts onContinue Reading
SIDS
Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. (Romans 12:15 NIV) Yesterday a friend asked me to pray for her son-in-law’s cousin and her husband who lost an eight-month old baby, evidently to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. I don’t even know the parents and other family members wouldContinue Reading
Your calling is going to crush you.
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since whatContinue Reading
Worship freedom
But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is theContinue Reading
Roger and Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. (Ephesians 4:32 NIV) One of the stories we’re studying in the American short stories class I’m teaching is Langston Hughes’ “Thank You, M’am,” which was written and published in 1958. Hughes was the first AfricanContinue Reading
Senses remember
Open your mouth and taste, open your eyes and see— how good God is. Blessed are you who run to him. (Psalm 34:8 MSG) Last week in the American short stories class I’m teaching, we studied O. Henry’s “The Cop and the Anthem.” It’s a story about a homeless man who plansContinue Reading
Shadows
We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. (2 Corinthians 4:8-9 NIV)“Beloved, I see how you have journeyed through the valley of the shadow of death. You started out strong in faith and believing that I was with andContinue Reading
Remember the Faithful Voice
My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. (John 10:27 NIV) My steps have held to your paths; my feet have not stumbled. I call on you, my God, for you will answer me; turn your ear to me and hear my prayer. (Psalm 17:5-6 NIV) Tonight, we had ourContinue Reading
Vacation
Yahweh is my best friend and my shepherd. I always have more than enough. He offers a resting place for me in his luxurious love. His tracks take me to an oasis of peace near the quiet brook of bliss. That’s where he restores and revives my life. (Psalm 23:1-3 TPT) Three SundaysContinue Reading
For or against?
“Teacher,” said John, “we saw someone driving out demons in your name and we told him to stop, because he was not one of us.” “Do not stop him,” Jesus said. “For no one who does a miracle in my name can in the next moment say anything bad about me, for whoever isContinue Reading