Be Alert, Be Present!

Isaiah 43:19 I have been trying something a little new for me.   I have been listening to the Bible in The Message on Bible.com. So, this morning, while making chocolate chip cookies for our four grandboys, who are coming for a sleepover tonight, I turned on the app and began to listen.   Listening to TheContinue reading “Be Alert, Be Present!”

I invite you into____________.

So here is the thing: Our invitation to God reminds us He is near! It reminds us that God is right in the mix with us. And it gives God our full and complete submission to go to work.

Filling in the Gap!

I remember my college days.  I was young and impressionable, and although I had been educated for 12 or more years by then, I was green, naïve, and gullible.   It is true for all of us.   We think we know it all, and then we realize, well, maybe not!  This seems a rite of passage for so many of us.  Acting so informed yet being completely ignorant.

Don’t Do It!

Jeremiah 45 The prophet Jeremiah gave a message to Baruch son of Neriah in the fourth year of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, after Baruch had written down everything Jeremiah had dictated to him. He said, 2 “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says to you, Baruch: 3 You haveContinue reading “Don’t Do It!”

The Powerful Word

This is where I want to stand and shout—Go, Jeremiah!!!  When writing my book, I once thought I had lost all my writing. It was only momentarily, but my heart sank, and I wondered if I had what it would take to do a rewrite.  My fleeting thought was no way!!  Luckily, the “finder app” on my computer revealed its whereabouts. 

Aye Yai Yai!

Happy Tuesday! The spirit-filled life is a life that is full, abundant, overflowing and oh, SO good! Sadly, we also can be content in our sin and miss the good things God has for us. So, today let’s take a minute and let God speak to us about our lives. Let’s put our ear to the pavement and listen.

A Heart-Breaking Progression

When we don’t guard our hearts, it is like giving ground away to things that are addictive and bring despair.  God’s truth is so, so practical for life!  Why don’t we listen???

A Look in the Mirror

Of course, hindsight is 20/20.  We can easily look back and criticize these “foolish” people; however, we need to look at our own lives first. 

Turning Ashes into Beauty

I’m sure you have noticed it too. More people are feeling hopeless than ever in our lifetime. The pandemic and the chaotic world we find ourselves in have certainly added to this crisis of discouragement and hoplessness. Turning Beauty into Ashes was written with hurting people in mind.

This is Going to Be Hard

Jeremiah 1 But God Will be With YOU! The book of Jeremiah is where I am in my Bible study today.  Jeremiah is known as the “weeping prophet.”  I recently heard a speaker say that in today’s language, we would call Jeremiah the DEPRESSED prophet.  I think he is right.  Poor Jeremiah!  He was a young and inexperienced man against the ENTIREContinue reading “This is Going to Be Hard”