Cast Your Bread Upon the Waters This past January I visited my dad who just so happens to live on the beach. One morning, I took the opportunity to grab my coffee and my Bible and spend some time in prayer with the sand and waves. I had several things on my mind to seek…
"God never made a promise that was too good to be true" - D.L. Moody 2 Corinthians 1:20 https://my.bible.com/bible/59/2CO.1.20 "For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory." This saying, "too good to be true" is…
“Thus will I bless Thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in Thy name.” ~ Psalm 63:4 “There are two ways we can lift up our hands for God: we can lift them in supplication and we can lift them in service. Doubtless David had both thoughts in mind: Take my hands…
“His power will be increased honorably. The wicked will be angry when they see this; they will gnash their teeth and waste away, the desires of the wicked will come to nothing.” ~ Psalm 112:10 “The godly shall first see the example of the saints to their own condemnation and shall at last behold the…
I was listening to a live worship album the other day and the guy leading the song told a story I want to repeat. The guy was talking about a time when he was younger and he and his mother were about to be evicted from their home. He said that at one point he…
Where Love & Justice Collide In the course of breakfast, between FB and the news, I have read about this person being killed for one reason, a group of people being killed for that reason...people are grieved for this reason over here and people are outraged for that reason over there. A life lost is…
Joel 2:12 https://my.bible.com/bible/59/JOL.2.12 “Yet even now,” declares the Lord , “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;" One of the Hebrew words for “repent” is Teshuva which comes from the verb "to return". Repentance is more than feeling bad and saying you're sorry. There is action required. It…
Our Life is a Worship We were watching a flock of birds do that beautiful synchronized flying thing that some do. I know it has a term, but I’m not bothering to look it up right now. It’s when they, as a whole, fly like it’s a coordinated dance. Science will have a reasonable explanation…
The Lord has been really impressing on me the necessity of maintaining a quiet spirit in all of this chaos that is happening all around us. It started last week while I was in traffic, having just spent a very large portion of my paycheck on gas and necessities. While I wasn’t angry or scared,…
“I Loved You First” Whether we like it or not, whether we realize it or not, this is so. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved…
Canvas Rhapsody 