2024-06-03
Seeking God
Do I desperately seek after God? Prayer: Father, Don’t let me be so easily satisfied; help me pant after you as a deer pants for water.
Read more..Thoughts By Marilyn Ehle
2024-05-18
Small Sins; Dangerous Effects
How often do we ignore the “small sins” that seem to be of minimal importance?
Read more..2024-05-15
Refreshment
Jesus told his friends that if they came away to a quiet place they would be refreshed, and He promises to refresh all those weighed down by the burdens of life.
Read more..2024-05-03
Learning to Trust
Many people know the hymn, “Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus.” The melody soothes, the words bring hope. But like many familiar pieces of verse, Louisa Stead’s words can easily slip like quicksilver off our lips without lodging in our hearts and minds.
Read more..2024-04-29
Stones
Formed by God. “you, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house.” 1 Peter 2:5 Thank you that you form each of us according to a beautiful master plan.
Read more..2024-04-22
The Broken Bible
"I have hidden your word in my heart.”.. "Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law." Psalm 119:11 and 18
Read more..2024-04-18
Strong Faith/Small Faith
We understand strong faith/small faith all too well. . We have seen God work miracles in our lives. but when “reality” hits, we falter. Just a bit.
Read more..2024-04-02
The Challenge of Change
Following hard after Jesus is committing to a life where change is the norm and not the exception.
Read more..2024-03-19
Bread of Heaven
It's almost always the first bite of good bread that whets the appetite for more, and the pattern is similar in our walk with Jesus.
Read more..2024-03-14
Sharp Christians
God wants His people to be “keen edged” as well. If a knife is dull, it is still a knife but its usefulness is diminished.
Read more..2024-02-21
Big Oak Doors
Church Oak doors—designed for welcome—often become a barrier instead of an entrance. Street people with their backpacks and homeless teens roam the streets regularly pass those doors.
Read more..2024-02-08
A Moving Mountain
have you ever heard about a mountain moving a person? That is exactly what happened recently to a woman we will call Sarah.
Read more..2024-01-18
Open Windows
Reading through the gospels, it is amazing to discover the number of times the phrase “Jesus saw” occurs.
Read more..2023-12-31
Singing into the Future
The first line of the final stanza. ”God of the coming years, through paths unknown we follow you. The past is past, we cannot change any of its triumphs or losses. We now face the future and its sure challenges, its unknown paths."
Read more..2023-12-16
Keep On Keeping On
During the months of his wife’s pregnancy, Zechariah’s prayers were silent ones. He could only commune with his Heavenly Father in the stillness of his heart, but I believe his long years of faithful service—even when he couldn’t hear God speaking or see God working—provided strength during those silent months.
Read more..2023-12-15
The Mystery of Christmas
The mystery of Christmas requires something we rational humans find most difficult: faith. Not some brain-numbing step into an abyss, but rather that which is described in the New Testament: “Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see”
Read more..2023-12-02
Water from God’s Reservoir
Father God, your word refreshes and fills and invigorates me as I faithfully meditate on it. Thank you for its life giving strength.
Read more..2023-11-22
The Look of Jesus
Devotional: THE LOOK OF JESUS. Often we cringe when we think God is looking on us. We transfer our own judgmental attitudes onto Him, finding it difficult or impossible to believe that His looks are full of grace and truth.
Read more..2023-11-06
Slave Thinking
We who walk with Christ often experience this tendency toward slave thinking. We grow discouraged in the tough battle of addictions or grief or abuse or self-doubt.
Read more..2023-11-01
No Private Rooms
Could it be that the rooms of my life closed off to God are locked because I haven’t sufficiently developed that same love and trust with my Heavenly Father?
Read more..2023-10-03
Are We Meant to Be Happy?
“(Jesus said) Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you…I am coming to you now…so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them.” Dear friend, God has far deeper purposes in our lives than happiness. Jesus promised to leave us his peace and joy. Nothing less.
Read more..2023-09-30
Welcoming Strangers
"Was our friend an angel as described in the book of Hebrews? He didn’t look particularly angelic, but his presence brought blessing that we recall to this very day."
Read more..2023-09-27
The Real God in the Midst of Real Pain
God did not rescue Jesus from the temptations of the Evil One. He gave Him power to resist. What do you do when you lose your dreams?
Read more..2023-09-16
Lost Dreams
Have you ever had a dream die? Something you wanted to accomplish in life but “life” got in the way? it is God’s great pleasure to give us new dreams and fresh hopes. Jeremiah 29:11 says “I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to give you hope and a future.”
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