Much dreaming and many words are meaningless. Therefore fear God. (Ecclesiastes 5:7 NIV) Do you have dreams? There are different types of dreams. You may have wishes, goals, hopes, plans that are “dreams” of your life. You may have dreams – good or bad – that visit you as youContinue Reading
“Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.’ Thus says the Lord God to these bones, ‘Behold, I will make breath enter you so that you may come to life. I will put sinews on you, make flesh grow back on you, cover you with skin, andContinue Reading
Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. (Romans 12:15 NIV) I don’t really like looking at dead bodies in caskets. No matter how skilled the funeral home staff may be, the body never quite looks like the person. In a way, it can’t be, because a personContinue Reading
For you have been my hope, Sovereign Lord, my confidence since my youth.My mouth is filled with your praise, declaring your splendor all day long.My mouth will tell of your righteous deeds, of your saving acts all day long— though I know not how to relate them all. I will come and proclaim your mighty acts, Sovereign Lord; I will proclaim your righteous deeds,Continue Reading
(This article is by James Goll, and I wrote the prayer.) 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 andContinue Reading
The Lord also will be a refuge and a stronghold for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble;And those who know Your name [who have experienced Your precious mercy] will put their confident trust in You, for You, O Lord, have not abandoned those who seek You. (Psalm 9:9-10Continue Reading
[Happy New Year!] Change. Transition. “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” “God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.” “It’s all the same, only the names are changed.” “When you go through the storms I am with you…you are mine.” “Not everyone likes the new things.”Continue Reading
God speaks in various ways to different people at different times. When we entered the Advent season, it was as if we are going back to the time between the Old and New Testaments of our Bible. For those 400 years God seemed silent to his chosen people. They had hadContinue Reading
(We have been working our way through the Christmas Story in Luke 1-2 and Matthew 1. Mary and Joseph have been visited by angels, endured very challenging circumstances, and finally watched the birth of the God of the Universe in a shelter for animals, before being visited by local shepherds whoContinue Reading
“The hope of the righteous brings joy, but the expectation of the wicked will perish.” (Proverbs 10:28 ESV) “When Digory took a minute to get his breath, and then went softly into his Mother’s room. And there she lay, as he had seen her lie so many other times, proppedContinue Reading