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Loving God, Living God, Loving Hope, Living Hope, Loving Living Life His Way! "Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues." – Brother Lawrence (1605-1691), Practicing the Presence of God (1692).

Romans 15:4 "For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope."

May the Lord prepare us to receive something new this year to improve our lives. Make Us Ready to Receive! Deuteronomy 1:1-8
Every Christians #1 First New Year’s Resolution? Seeking God’s direction or Without Seeking God’s Direction? Proverbs 3:5-8
Sometimes the Wait For My Change to be Realized, Feels Like an Eternity of my Bearing the Unbearable Burden Psalm 119: 153-160.
He Carried Us All the Way! This is My Prayer, My Plea, for us to Renew Our Max Trust in God in the coming Year. Deuteronomy 1:29-31
Therefore, let us be committed, let us be .1% more resolved, to give heed to these ancient Words from the Lord: “Do not be afraid of them; the Lord your God himself will fight for you.” Deuteronomy 3:21-28
“Will somebody please teach us how to Pray? Teach us ways we can build up our Prayer Lives?” Luke 11:1-13
Our Communion with God. “I cannot even imagine how a religious person can live satisfied without the practice of the presence of GOD.” John 15:4-5
Sometimes we just need to stop right where are and reflect upon Memories of God’s Goodness. Deuteronomy 4:9
I realize this a ridiculous question but I must ask; do any of us truly realize, scripturally, what are the differences Between Anything and Everything?
Trauma Unknowable; Living in and Passing through, Surviving, Grieving though the Devastation, Destruction, of the Raging Fires. Ceaseless Prayer. Psalm 91:14-16.
Breaking the hard dry sun baked soil; A Prayer When You Need to Welcome a most difficult and irritating Person. Mark 9:36-37
watch out for those who would cause divisions, create needless obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; turn away, avoid them. Romans 16:17-18
God’s Judgment Unleashed? Saying believing, or Preaching regarding the “long awaited, much needed” Arrival of God’s Judgment Upon California. Exodus 7:1-5
Glorifying the Works of our limitless God and Embracing Our Limitations. Ecclesiastes 8:16-17
Whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction which is why the Old Testament yet matters. Romans 15:3-6
Anyone else feel like the only thing certain in this world is the certain uncertainty of our being changed? Isaiah 46:8-11
His Incorruptible Counsel and His Comfort. “I bless the Lord who gives me counsel; and in the night also my heart instructs me.” Psalm 16:7-8
The Lord our God wants all of us to respect Him and do what He says. He wants you to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Deuteronomy 10:12
A Gospel being Perverted; “There is no other message that is the Good News, but some people are confusing you. They want to alter, to change, the Good News about Jesus Christ.” Galatians 1:6 – 12
See the Beauty of God; For as long as our Earth lasts, planting and harvest, cold and heat, Summer and Winter, His days and nights will never stop.” Genesis 8:20-22
May Adonai make his face shine on you and show you his favor and May Adonai lift up his face toward you and give you peace. Numbers 6:22-27
Set Free! Free Indeed! Christian Liberty; Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Jesus Christ has made us free, do not be entangled yet again with a yoke of hard bondage. Galatians 5:1-6
Eyeing those ages long trails of God’s true Faithfulness: a time of Prayer to ponder, remembering the days of old; consider those generations long past. Deuteronomy 32:1-8
Thankful, Prayerful, Joyful, for you have been my partners in spreading the Good News about Christ from the time you had first heard it until now. Philippians 1:3-6
Go ahead, I dare You! Try to Convince Me God really identifies with us about what it feels like to faithfully live into this experience: bury His own child? Job 1:13-22
I have always pondered why Jesus wept. “When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was sorely troubled.” John 11:32-37
A Meditation: Lord regretted that He had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. Genesis 6:5-8
The Great Multitudes. The Great Promise of Completion. When our God begins a work, He completes it. Revelation 7:9-17
In bondage to, In confirmation of, In defense of, God’s Gospel of Salvation. Philippians 1:7-8
An Expression of Love: “And it is my fervent prayer your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and discernment, leading unto holiness.” Philippians 1:7-11
Like Father, Like Children? if all you hard-hearted, sinful men know how to give good gifts to your children. Matthew 7:7-11
It’s just the same with our tongues! It’s a small muscle, capable of such marvelous and Fiery undertakings. James 3:3-6
Compelled by a Life of Urgency: so I may finish my task with Joy and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus Christ, to testify unto the Good News of God’s grace. Acts 20:24
Samson: Blinded and Chained and Imprisoned, Vulnerable, Enamored, Entangled and Ensnared by Pillars of his Material Desires. Judges 16:25-30
Hindsight, Insight, Foresight: The Importance of our acknowledging HIS story as being everyone’s story. Deuteronomy 4:7-10
Someone is bound to ask you: Just what is so “good” about The Good News? Titus 2:11-14
‘It feels like it has been an Eternity!’ Praying to better Trust God’s Timing during our LONG seasons of waiting. Ecclesiastes 3:11-13
Happy and Blessed Valentines Day! Friends will love through all kinds of weather, and families stick together in all kinds of trouble. Proverbs 17:17
Lord, Prepare me, Search me, O’ God. Know my Heart, Just please test me, know my thoughts, unleash from me the boldness that I deliberately keep locked within me! Philippians 1:12-18
So don’t be overly righteous or overly wise; why should anyone try so hard to constantly disappoint themselves? Ecclesiastes 7:16
Breaking Bridges, Building Barriers; Envy, Mixed Up Motives, proclaiming Christ from those selfish ambitions. Philippians 1:15–18
Searched, Transformed By Truth: For is anything worth more than our own souls? Am I ashamed of the Gospel? Mark 8:34-38
I have already taken refuge straight to the arms of God. Why would I run away when you shout, run into hills, hide in caves, hike to the mountains? Psalm 11
Is the Church Itself an Impassable Barrier? “Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge.” Luke 11:52-54
Managing Chronic Grief: For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, my bones wasting away. Psalm 31:9-10
You shall have no other gods before Me But the hearts of men and women aren’t so easily instructed nowadays. Exodus 20:1–3
You are not to make any idol or image of other gods. In fact, you are never to make an image of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath. Exodus 20:4
God’s name should be treated with highest reverence and not used in a casual or foolish, disrespectful way. Exodus 20:7
His Hardest Covenant: to Remember that Sabbath (seventh) day to keep it holy and set apart, dedicated to God. Exodus 20:8-11
Fools are headstrong and do what they like; wise people take advice. Proverbs 12:15
The Righteous Cure for our Chronic unrighteousness Comes Through a Balance of Discipline and Humility. Proverbs 22:1-5
Ash Wednesday 2025: Guard Yourself against Temptation. Matthew 4:1 – 11
The Core Truth of the Matter forever Remains True: The reality is that God thoroughly Hates All Our Deception! exodus 20:16
Covetousness —our far over the top desire to possess for ourselves what God has chosen to give to another, or Humble Contentment Exodus 20:17
One Seldom Acknowledged Pitfall of Lent: Man Supposes, Man Proposes, but God alone, Ultimately Disposes. Proverbs 19:21
“Failure is never the opposite of ‘success’; it is a crucial part of it.” Proverbs 24:15-16
When peace, like a river, attendeth my way, normalizing Our Emotions; sit still, stand still quit our Hurrying! Psalm 34:14-18
Feeling far Short on Strength and Sufficiency. Nothing but Vapors in our Mind, our Soul and our Spirit. Exodus 15:1-8
Redemptive Reflection: Take time to be holy, speak often with thy Lord; abide in Him always, and feed on His Word. Psalm 139:23-24
Teamwork Triumph! There is such strength and a sense of community in working together with God toward a common goal. Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
Where is our Total Satisfaction with nothing but a young boy’s five loaves of bread and two fish? Mark 6:41-42
Listening, Learning about Living in, with, the Family of Faith Hospitably. Hebrews 13:1-8
The Freedom of His Rule, Our witness to His truth, The Forever Freedom of His Way, and His Truth, and His Life. John 18:33-38
May God who gives us each patience, steadiness, and encouragement help us to live in complete harmony with each other—each with the attitude of Christ toward the other. Romans 15:6
Death Is but a Doorway? It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. Ecclesiastes 7:2
A Temple With Surest Foundations: God hasn’t moved, hidden Himself from us into the mountains; His holy address has never changed. Psalm 11
A New Kind of Peace is now standing in our Midst: Jesus came and stood in their midst, and said to them, “let My Peace be with you.” John 20:19-21
Any Significance to even minimally keeping God’s Covenant of Sabbath Rest? Does Sabbath mean anything? exodus 20:8-10
God is gracious—it is He who makes things right, our most merciful and compassionate God. God takes the side of the helpless; when at the end of my rope, Yes! He saved even me! Psalm 116
For that person must never suppose that they will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, doubting all, unstable, in all his ways. James 1:5-8
For Levi 100% Change is inevitable, For Matthew, Resistance to change was inevitably, virtually nonexistent. Luke 5:27-39
Through the Crowds, then Digging through the rooftops. Our Paralyzed and broken selves are being lowered down into the presence of our Healer. Luke 5:17-26
“To be Blinded by His eternal Light” A Prayer to Find Light When You Feel Completely Surrounded by Darkness. John 1:1-5
Standing at the Border or Trekking through Samaria: Some Fresh Ways to Spread the Gospel. John 4:39-42
Divine Vandalism: And the moment arrived and the Sun stopped shining, and then suddenly the curtain of His temple was shredded into two halves. Luke 23:44-46
He Breathed His Last: Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” having said this he breathed his last. Luke 23:46
The Cross Opens Our Eyes: When the Centurion saw what had just taken place, he looked, praised God, saying, “Certainly this man was innocent!” Luke 23:47
Capable or Incapable of Walking Out of the dark Shadows of our Disbelief? Luke 23:50-54
Ancient expectations, Contemporary expectations: Why do you and I seek the living among the dead? He is not in the grave anymore, but has risen! Luke 24:4-8
Brothers and Sisters, Guess What? You are not now and never have been, never will be, a Mistake or Accident. Psalm 139:13-16
A God-Given Burden: “yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the very beginning to the end.” Ecclesiastes 3:9-13
It’s God’s power in times of real Pain: “We were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself.” 2 Corinthians 1:8–10
Treasures from Darkness: “Cyrus, I will give you all the treasures of the darkness, all the hoarded treasures and all of the hidden riches of secret places, that you may know I am God.” Isaiah 45:3
When we are not even close to being capable trust God is exceedingly able. Ephesians 3:20-21
Why Does the Resurrection Continue to Matter two thousand years Later? Mark 16:1-7
Joyful Rest in a Frantic World: ‘I will both lie down in peace and sleep, for though I am alone, O’ Lord, you will truly keep me safe.’ Psalm 4:7-8
Thinking Deeply for God’s Sake! ‘Do Consider what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in all things.’ 2 Timothy 2:1-7
Raised by God to Be His Holy Temple! God is going to raise our bodies from the dead by his power just as He had first raised up the Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 6:12-20.
The Gospel of Christ’s Resurrection: For I had passed on to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to that which the Scriptures foretold. 1 Corinthians 15:1-11
The Necessity of Resurrection: And if Christ hasn’t been raised, our faith is worthless; we are all still in our sins. 1 Corinthians 15:12-19
Changed by Resurrection; Behold, I will tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. 1 Corinthians 15:50-58
Despite my 999%’Awkward, Chaotic, Life-Defeating Limiting worldview’ I yet choose to Walk, March, Marathon forward, into the Category 5 winds of the Will of God. 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
Why would I, should I, can I in 2025, believe God Will Make a Way for me Because the bible says He is the Way? John 14:5-7
Invaluable, Immeasurable, Inevitable Indescribable, Infinite Intense Grace. Ephesians 2:4-7
Bringing Our Small Limitations unto Jesus; ‘But why, you may ask, must I be guided and limited by only what someone else may think or Believes?’ 1 Corinthians 10:26-33
In Time’s Like This, Can Anyone Still Find the Place, Time, to Practice Self-Compassion When Facing Setbacks? Psalm 103:8
New Life, New Lifestyle; ‘Therefore let everyone be grateful for receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken.’ Hebrews 12:28-29
Our Only Acceptable Boast; ‘but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in all the earth.’ Jeremiah 9:23–24
We Have a Shepherd. We also have a Compassionate Teacher; ‘When Jesus arrived, saw this huge crowd. At the sight of them, his heart broke—like sheep with no shepherd they were. He went right to work teaching them.’ Mark 6:32-34
A Mark of True Godliness; ‘God has had it with the proud, But God takes Greatest delight in just plain people. 1 Peter 5:1-7
I Am an Inviter; ‘The master told his servant, “Go out unto the roads and country lanes, compel them to enter inside, so that my house will be full.” Luke 14:16-24
Bound to the Book; ‘The revelation of God is whole and pulls our lives together. The signposts of God are clear and point out the right road.’ Psalm 19:7
I Am a Student; ‘Be a good workman, one who does not need to be ashamed when God examines your work. Know what his Word says and truly means.’ 2 Timothy 2:14-18
I am forever finding my Identity; as a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated, summoned, to the gospel of God. Romans 1:1-6
Christ at Creation; Realizing Christ Holds It All Together. Colossians 1:16
Why Should I Believe The Bible? ‘In addition, we have the most reliable prophetic word, and we would all do very well to pay close attention to it.’ 2 Peter 1:19-21
I Am a Steward; “It’s also like a man going off on an extended trip. He has called his servants together and has delegated responsibilities to them.” Matthew 25:14-18
One Grand Story! ‘The Lord will be king over all the earth. On that day the Lord will be one and His name one.’ Zechariah 14:1-9
How can I get right with God? ‘There is no difference at all between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned, fall infinitely short of the glory of God.’ Romans 3:21–24
I Am A Seed-Planter; “The Kingdom of God is like a farmer who scatters his seed on the ground.” Mark 4:26
I Am more than a Conqueror; ‘But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.’ Romans 8:31-39
I Have a New Identity in Christ; ‘The thief comes only so that he can steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and have it abundantly.’ John 10:6-10
Today’s Reminder is to please let the peace of God reign inside your hearts. Colossians 3:15–17
Who is My Family? These are my mother and brothers. Obedience is thicker than blood. The person who obeys my heavenly Father’s will are my brother, my sister, and mother. Matthew 12:46-50
Gliding effortlessly, high into the Sky Majestically Soaring, Standing, with God, strong, free on Wings of Eagles. Isaiah 40:27-31
The Camel’s Challenge? “Do you have any idea how difficult it is for the rich to enter God’s kingdom? Its far easier to gallop a camel through a needle’s eye for rich to enter God’s kingdom.” Matthew 19:23-24
How Does God Use Flowers to Teach Us about Himself? ‘Walk out into the fields, look at the wildflowers. They don’t fuss with their appearance—but have you ever seen such color and design quite like it?’ Luke 12:25-28
And David said unto Saul, “May no one’s heart fail on account of him; your servant will go and fight this Philistine!” 1 Samuel 17:31-33
With One Heart, One Mind, One Voice Our Praying, Our Speaking the Word of God with Real and True Boldness. Acts 4:23-31
Why it is good for us to be reminded what happens when we take the Bible Out of Context? 2 Timothy 2:14-18
Has anyone devoted any serious time to pray through this thought? Living and loving without God in the World? Psalm 49
even after this enormous passage of time and sinning, do we, can we, yet comprehend why does God Provide? Genesis 22:1-14
From you O’ Lord, let my vindication come; let your eyes see what is right. Trusting God when we face Injustice. Psalm 17
The Greatest Transfer of Trust; “Put your entire trust in the Master Jesus. Then you will live as you were meant to live—and everyone in your house included!” Acts 16:25-31
What would it look like for the Holy Spirit to be at work in the ministry of a particular congregation? Acts 17:11
Helping Your Children’s Faith Grow this Summer; “I have treasured Your Word in my heart, So that I may not sin against You.” Psalm 119:9-16
When do we survey the indescribable shame, total ugliness of the Cross? Hebrews 12:1-3
Herds of Panting Deer? Our Parched, Thirsty Souls? God’s Living Waters? Psalm 42
Lies Sin whispers into our ears. Lies Sin hammers deep into our very Soul. Lies Sin uses to crush our Spirit with. 1 John 1:6-10
Invest in Eternity; ‘Their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity.’ 2 Corinthians 8:1–4
The Lord always Has His Eye on You! For His eye is on the sparrow, And I know He watches me. Psalm 102:19
When your Heart Is blocked by doubt and your hands and feet are as much help as a millstone around our neck. Matthew 14:28-32
Youth Ministry; Fact or Fiction? God is, or God is not done with any of our old and gray hair yet? Psalm 71:17-24
Reacquainting ourselves with God! “Give in to God, come to terms with him and everything will turn out just fine. Let God alone tell you what to do; take His words into your heart. Job 22:21-25
Falling, Feeling, Short on Strength and Sufficiency; “The LORD is my strength, He is my defense; he has become my salvation.” Exodus 15
Called to be Saints: Through Him we received both the generous gift of His life and the urgent task of passing it on to others who receive it by their entering into obedient trust in Jesus. Romans 1:1-7
Do remember your Creator in your youth; before the Silver (Spinal) Cord is snapped; dust returns to the earth as it first was, and the Spirit returns to God who gave it. Ecclesiastes 12:1-8
So, the believers pray for a Continued Bold Witness. Our Prayer for far more Boldness to Stand for Biblical Values. Acts 4:23-31
Peace When You are Dealing with the weight and burden of Family Drama. Romans 12:14-19
“Put Me in Coach!” Peter said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death.” Luke 22:33
Are we in danger of forgetting God, forgetting all of which we have seen Him do for us? Deuteronomy 4:9-14
Devoting Ourselves unto, or Drifting away from, so Great a Salvation. Dare we to risk sloth, neglecting this latest message, this magnificent salvation? Hebrews 2:1-4
The Lord will never leave the guilty unpunished! His way, His Wrath is in the whirlwind and in the storm, and all the clouds are the dust of his feet. Nahum 1:1-6
Too earthly focused and no heavenly good. Too heavenly focused and not even one grain of sand earthly good. Philippians 3:12-21
Retrieving His Lost Sheep, Retrieving His Lost Sheep, Walking on the Road to Emmaus, retrieving His lost sheep. Luke 24:13-35
Scratching our heads on the Emmaus Road: Walking in Ignorance. Ponder that plight of the Blinded Lost Sheep. Luke 24:14-18
Aught we to be praying, pondering for ourselves, how slow, how foolish we are regarding our Understanding Why and What we believe? Luke 24:25
Sheep empowered for Mission! They didn’t waste a minute. They were up and on their way back to Jerusalem. Luke 24:33-35
One Half Hope-filled Sheep or One Half Gloom and Doom Filled Sheep? Does Your Cup of Faith, Hope, and Love Look Half Full or Half Empty? Luke 24:28-35
Growing together in Christ. Walking in Obedience, Learning how to walk in this world with obedience to our faith. Moving forward into the world we live in, Minister to. John 14:15-21
When You Don’t Have the Words to Pray, when life is kicking your butt, God invites us to fly to Him to Rest. Psalm 55
Transformed by this Truth? “every person is as Close to God as they all think they want to be.” James 4:8
We humans will keep brainstorming options and plans, but God’s purpose will always prevail. Proverbs 19:21
Dare we to be the only ones who are eavesdropping? Jesus is saying unto Simon, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be fishing for my people.” Luke 5:1-11
Genuine Service Selfless Servanthood Bending, Bowing, our Spirits to “He must increase, but I must decrease.” John 3:27-30
Serving our Sovereign God. Can we rightly discuss what ought to be the Christian’s relationship to authority? Isaiah 40:18-31
Lord, this is my prayer; there is not a single moment of my life for which I don’t have a need for your Direction. Psalm 119:73-80
The Words of Eternal Life. “Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom else should we go? You alone have the words of eternal life.” John 6:66-71
God Tames the Surging Sea: “God is ruler over the surging sea: When its waves rise up, God’s voice alone, who speaks to them, making them still.” Psalm 89:8-13
God Tames the Surging Sea: “God is ruler over the surging sea: When its waves rise up, God’s voice alone, who speaks to them, making them still.” Psalm 89:8-13
That Darkness is My Closest Friend. The Darkness is My Only Best Friend. The Only ‘Friend’ I have is Darkness. Psalm 88
So, God spoke: “Let us make human beings in our image, to make them reflect our nature…”Genesis 1:26-28
Praying or Despairing? When You Don’t Have Any Friends, when you have no acquaintances to keep you company, our life in our isolation. Matthew 11:16-19
Do Please enlighten Yourselves: How Do YOU Worship God Appropriately? Deuteronomy 8:11-18 (Verses 17-18)
My skilled living got its freshest start from my greater Fear-of-God insight into life knowing trusting Holy God. Proverbs 9:7-12
Engine of Repentance: Let us all take a good look at the way we are living, let us all reorder our lives under God. Lamentations 3:37-42
Beyond my comfort and convenience, have I truly decided to follow Jesus? Luke 9:57-62
How Jesus Viewed, Valued Women? A Girl is Restored to Life and a Woman is Healed from a discharge of blood for twelve years. Matthew 9:18-26
Jesus has just dared to heal a crippled woman on the Sabbath! Luke 13:10-17
Is this for real, that our King of All Creation actually set his own eternity aside, took on the status of a Slave? Philippians 2:1-4
Some days, if not most days, if not every moment of everyday, our very own thoughts are our all time single greatest worst enemy. 1 Samuel 27:1
Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily laden, overwhelmed by your own Expectations of yourself and I will surly relieve your burden. Matthew 11:28 – 30
Sacrifice, Work and Labor at getting along with each other and with God. Otherwise you’ll never get so much as a glimpse of God. Make sure that no one gets left out of God’s generosity. Psalm 15
May the Peace of God reign over your home. God’s people will surely live in peaceful dwelling places, in secured homes, in undisturbed places of rest. Isaiah 32:15-20
Life, Heart, Soul, Mind and Strength for truly Honoring and enjoying our Creator. Where is all of that Wonder Working Power of Youthful Worship? Ecclesiastes 12:1-8
Jesus did not pray that God should take any of us out of the world, but that God would guard, protect, and shield from the Evil One. John 17:15
Labor Day! There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and assure himself that there is good in his labor. Even this, I have seen, is from the hand of God. Ecclesiastes 2:24-26
‘Our Weary Savior!’ “and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, tired as He was from His journey, then sat down by the well. It was then about the sixth hour (noon).” John 4:4-6
How deeply rooted can we be in the soils of ‘Living like Christ’, are we to foolishly, realistically, believe we can get by with, “fake it till we make it?” Colossians 2:6-7
How deep is deeply Rooted in Christ? On the seventh day God was finished with his work which he had made, so he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. Genesis 2:1-3
O’ That Parable of the Great Banquet; Fasting or Feasting on the Gospel: We Have All Been “Invited” to the Party! Luke 14:15-24
Feasting or Snacking or Nibbling or on a Hunger Strike? Their delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law they meditate both day and at night. Psalm 1
The Parables of the Hidden Treasure and of the Priceless Pearl. How Much is the Kingdom of God worth digging, mining, for God’s hidden treasures?
What is so contentious about our Transforming our Everyday Faith? As you ponder, is it just me or is my faith really so broken? Psalm 71:17-24
All of Life is a Test. God is constantly watching how we respond to people, problems, success, conflict, illness, disappointment and even weather! Job 23:8-12
The Tested Faith of Ordinary People; Ordinary People-extraordinary God. God Is Not Dead! Hebrews 11:32-38
In the Firmness of Our Faith, When We are Tied up, Cast into the Hottest Furnaces, Standing Up in the Flames. Daniel 3:24-27
How, in what ways have we forgotten God in our worship? The When and What of Praising God. Psalm 96:1-3
Have we now transgressed that line in the sand singing solely to listen to ourselves singing our own praises to ourselves, not God, in our worship? Psalm 96:1-3
Fresh Air for Rusty Souls: entering into His Courtyard, place where God meets men and women clothed in His Wardrobe of Holiness. Psalm 96:7-9
A Long Term Investment! How we respond to God’s Word in this life will determine our life in the next. Luke 16:19-31
Fact or False: A Bible which is falling apart at the seams will usually belong to someone who is truly falling apart. Psalm 119:97-104
Our mutual goal is to bring out the best in others in a conversation, not put them down, not to cut them out. Colossians 4:2-6
Such is the Spoken Word of God: God always Reigns! Plants Restores and Revives us, when life is falling apart. Amos 3:11-15
Marvelous, infinite, matchless grace, Freely bestowed on all who believe! We who are longing to see His face, will we in this God moment His grace receive? 2 Thessalonians 3:16-18
Grant us thy Grace for Letting Go, of Casting Away, that Which We Cannot Control nor Change. 1 Peter 5:1-11
Who is like our God? The Creator of all we can see or we can ever imagine. Isaiah 40:12 – 20
Remember: A stingy planter gets a stingy crop; a lavish planter gets a lavish crop; a lazy planter gets Zilch. 2 Corinthians 9:6-11
Those who have wisdom let them be Wise. Get wisdom—it is worth much more than money; so choose wisely! Pray insight over income every time. Proverbs 16:16-21
I am Meditating about the Benefits of our Multi-generational churches! Titus 2:1–8
What if we could all see our whole selves only through God’s eyes? Can you or I contemplate how different we would act and feel? 1 Peter 2:9-10
Shall we rub our eyes—we can hardly bring ourselves to believe it! This is the very day which God acted—let us celebrate and be festive! Psalm 118:24
Fill your minds, meditate on things true, noble, reputable, and authentic, compelling, gracious—the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse. Philippians 4:8-9
When they had heard this they were enraged, were crying out, “Great is goddess Artemis of the Ephesians!” exposing our own unexpected Idols. Acts 19:23-31
Professor Rabbi Apostle Paul: “that people throughout the province of Asia – both Jews and Greeks – heard the word of the Lord.” Acts 19:8-10
Precious Pearls From Proverbs: The Blessings of a Calm, Tranquil Heart. Proverbs 14:29-30
Is There a Way He Always Wants Us to Live? Are We In This World for Good, Bad or Always Living Indifferently? 1 Thessalonians 5:12-18
Wisdom from the Apostle Paul unto Today’s 21st Century Church: There is a Strong Heartbeat inside Healthy Churches. 1 Thessalonians 5:12-22
Comfort, O’ Comfort My People, says your God as My loyal love cannot run out, My merciful love cannot dry up. They are created new every morning. Pray! How great is My faithfulness? Lamentations 3:22-24
God’s love is meteoric, his loyalty is astronomic, His purpose titanic, his verdicts oceanic. Yet in his largeness nothing gets lost; Not a man, not a mouse, a soul, ever slips through his righteous right hand. Psalm 36:5-6
The truth is that everyone who does become a citizen of Christ’s kingdom is caught up, snared, inside a cosmic conflict of high eternal significance. 1 John 3:7-10
Staying at our Post; Companions as we are in this work with you, we beg you, please don’t squander one bit of this marvelous life God has given us. 2 Corinthians 6:1-10
A Love that will always continue to keep growing maturing, flourishing because God will always be working on Me. Philippians 1:3-6
Have I learned to be content whatever the circumstances? Or am I too good at faking it, until I think I believe it? Philippians 4:10-14
Jesus is asking, Are we welcoming the quiet? “Come off by yourselves; lets take a break and get a little rest.” Mark 6:30-31
Heads up! The days are coming when I’ll set up a new plan for dealing with Israel and Judah. They failed to keep their part of the bargain, so I looked away and let it go. Hebrews 8:7-13
Glad Submission to God? For we are cheating on God. If all we want is our own way, dating and flirting with the world every chance we get, we end up enemies of God, his Truth, his Way. James 4:6-10
Write this to Ephesus, Christ Knows Your Works. “I see what you’ve done, your hard, hard work, your refusal to quit. “But you’ve walked away from your first love—Pray, tell Me why? Revelation 2:1–5
When believers lose their First Love, their zeal for God fades, leaving them barely any outward religious activity, visibly emptied hearts disconnected from genuine fellowship with Him. Revelation 2:1-7
I am now calling Heaven and Earth to be an eyewitness against you today: Choose this day to be an encourager, Choose this day to be a discourager? Deuteronomy 30:11-20
On a good day, to enjoy yourself; On a bad day, to examine your conscience. Share a true heart of thankfulness, all the live long days God gives everyday! Ecclesiastes 7:8-18
I am completely sure, I will see God’s goodness in the exuberant earth. Stay with God! Take my heart. Do not quit. I now say it again: I’ll stay with God . Psalm 27
Tis again, that ponderous season we eagerly celebrate all the anticipated, tiresome years of hurry up and wait. Hebrews 9:23-28
What we have been taught, what we have learned from others who have certainly tried their hand at writing a cogent story of the wonderful harvest of Scripture and history. Luke 1:1-4
Barriers to Christmas Joy: About Confronting or Celebrating Family estrangement this Holiday Season? Psalm 27:9-10
Is this some kind of a divine prank? Our Finding Joy in the Endurance of Struggle when they do not have any time or inclination to start looking? Romans 5:1-5
By God’s Mercy and Favor, Let us all strive to be empathetic Christians, to enhance our fellowship and worship, Kingdom usefulness unto the Master. Luke 1:57-66
Watching, Waiting, Witnessing God’s Anointed, coming to a Little Town of big beginnings near nowhere Special. Micah 5:1-5
Besides Great Apparel, Posters, Key Chains, and Jewelry, Are We Sure We Know the Message “Faith Over Fear” Truly Conveys to us? Psalm 118:5 – 16
So God said, in effect, “If that’s what you want, that is what you will get.” by Celebrating the Savior in a Culture that celebrates stuff. Romans 1:24-25
If now is the best of times, or if now is the worst of times, what do we do if our Christmas’ are not feeling Merry and or very Bright? Galatians 4:4-7
Lord, make me an instrument of your Compassion, your Generosity, and of your Grace. Lord, instruct us how to Live the Kingdom Life: Where Injury, Pardon. Prayer St. Francis of Assisi
Believe or not Believe? For since by a man death came, by a Man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. 1 Corinthians 15:20-28
Go Forth and Keep the Message Alive! Know the Greatest Proof: How we Can Know The Bible And Christianity Are Real! 2 Timothy 3:10-17

The Hopeful, Hope-Filled Truth of the Timeless Verse “For Everything There Is a Season.” Ecclesiastes 3:1
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Blog: “Discovering His Living Hope”
Accepting or Refusing History’s Greatest Invitation: Does God Truly Offer Us the Absolute Best for Free?
History’s Greatest Invitation Ever Extended, Yet Seldom Ever Delivered: Our Decision to Accept It or Refuse It.
History’s Greatest Invitation Ever Extended, Yet Seldom Ever Delivered: An Invitation Too Frequently Refused
Loving God, Living God, Loving and Living His Way: What is on Display?
The Greatest Invitation: When God Preached the Gospel – A Response.
Is it a Risk Worth Taking: How Often Should I Change My Heart and Soul?
Someone Else’s Living Hope: Will You Be the One Who Steps Forward?
Obtaining Our Living Hope: That In My Flesh, I Know That I Shall See God
For Whatever Was Written in Former Days was written; Part 4: So that with One Voice we Should Glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!
For What Was Written in Former Days …….. Part 3: May the God of Steadfastness and Encouragement Grant Believers a Spirit of Unity.
For Whatever was Written in Former Days ….. Part 2: Through Endurance, Through Encouragement, We Might Reap and Sow Hope from the Ruins!
For Whatever was Written in Former Days ….. Part 1, Can we Claim the Old Testament Covenant in these Times?
That We Might Have Hope
Can One Have Hope Without God?
Isaiah 55:6 Seek the Lord while He may be found, Call upon Him while He is near. “Promises, Promises.”
A Promise is A Promise is A Promise: God’s Promises Light Up Our Tunnel!
I Am Pondering the Promises of God. I Am Pondering the Goodness of God!
I Am Pondering the Goodness of God! Do I Recognize the Goodness of God?
I Am Pondering the Promises of God! I Am Pondering the reputation of The Lion, The Lamb, The Throne Room!
So, I Am Pondering the Revelation of God. I Am Deciding if Jesus is Worthy.
So, I Am Pondering the Revelation of God. Guess What? Even from the Very Beginning of All Things, God Attracts
I Am Pondering the Revelation of God. What Does it Mean That God Is Able to Do More Than All We Ask?
I Am Reflecting upon Making the Decision to Follow God. A Hope Deferred …. A Longing Fulfilled.
We are Reflecting Upon Making the Decision to Believe in God or Not. What is Your Christian Worldview?
We Are Reflecting Upon Our Decision to Believe in God or Not …. Guard Our Hearts in the Way They Should Go!
I Am Reflecting on the Sovereignty of God in My Life. Our Troubled Heart, this Troubled Christian Heart Within!
Today, I’m Ponder the Living Hope of God: The Miracle of Transformation. Jesus Transforms Water Into Wine!
Our Message of Living Hope which has been there from the Beginning.
Exalting the Name of the Lord our God and the Truth of God’s Word! With All of our Heart and our Soul!
Exalt the Name of the Lord our God! Exalt the Truth of the Lord our God! The Blessing of Knowing Scripture!
Exalt the Name of the Lord our God! Exalt the Truth of the Lord our God! What Can We Learn From Psalm 119?
Exalt the Truth of the Lord our God! How Much Are We Appreciating the Reality of Truth and the Word of God?
What Really Matters in Life is NOT What We NOW Think of Ourselves but What God Already Knows About Us!
All That Matters is What God Already Knows of Us! A Living Faith, A Dying Fear. I accept that I’m Risking Failure
For The Spirit Searches All Things, The Spirit Understands All Things! Much More Like Jesus, Less Like Me.
The Spirit Knows! Our True Happiness Is in Understanding and Obedience!
Is There Such an Event as Any Prayer Which is too Hard for God to Answer? Let Us Pray Through Psalm 119:33-40
Happy Thanksgiving! Covering God and Each Other With Love and Grace!
“Let Your Steadfast Love Come to Me, O LORD! Not By Bread Alone – Simply According to Your Biblical Promises”
My Promise: I WILL Speak about your Written Instructions in the Presence of Kings and I will NOT feel Ashamed!
Advent Week 1: Hope for our World, Living Hope into our Darkness, Unto You alone, O God, Do I lift up my Soul.
Lead Me Forward from My Darkness! Show Me Your Ways, Lord! And Teach Me Your Paths. Lead Me in Thy Truth.
Advent, A Season of Anticipation! My Time, Your Time, are in God’s Hands!
Advent: Season of Anticipation. Season of Preparation, Waiting! Attitude Adjustment: About Time!
Advent: Our Season of Anticipation, Season of Waiting, Timely Patience! Redeem our Meaningless Life Time!
Advent: It is Another Season of More Waiting. It is Another Season of More Preparation. It is Another Season out of our Lives. A Season of Nonsense?
Advent: It is Our Season of Waiting for Who Knows What or Who Knows Who, Our Season of Making Choices!
Advent Week Two: We Have Given our Joy a Name. Believe It or Not, We Can also Give our Peace a Real Name!
Advent: “For Unto Us a Child is Born, and Unto Us a Child is Now Given.” A Glorious Messiah, the Messianic Age
Advent Week Two: For a Child will be Born to us, a Son will be Given to us; the Prince of Peace. The Government Will Rest Squarely on His Shoulders.
Advent Week Two: For unto Us a Son is Given. The Hope of Our Salvation!
Advent Week Two: A Season of Peace. God’s Prophecies are Being Fulfilled!
Introducing: The Prophets of the Hebrew (Old) Testament. Discover How We Ought to Understand some of the Toughest Books in the Bible.
“God Said to Me, I Will Personally Introduce You to One Like Moses!”
Advent Week Three: An Ode to Joy! The Gift of Drawing Waters of Joy!
An Ode Unto my Joy! For YAHWEH, the LORD, is my Strength and Song; He also has become my Salvation.’
An Ode Unto My Joy! This Day is Holy Unto God! Do Not be Sad! For the Joy of Yahweh Your God is Your Strength!
An Ode to Man’s Joy. God is the Exact Center of our Joy. Jesus is the ONLY Key to Joy. Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desire!
Celebrate God, Celebrating You! It is Always Good Thing to Celebrate God!
Indescribable Joy! Immeasurable Joy! Inescapable Joy! Inevitable Joy! Jesus is our Souls Most Valuable Treasure!
All The Highways and By-Ways. The High Roads and the Low Roads. The Roads Less Traveled. Our Pathways.
Advent Week Four: The GOSPEL of God! The Greatest Christmas Ever!
Believe! For God so Loved the World!
Belonging! The Good News of Jesus Christ! The Good News of Belonging!
A.B.I.D.E. The Experience of Knowing and Loving God in Jesus Christ Today
John 3:16! We Believe! We Belong! We A.B.I.D.E.! Now, We Must Bear Fruit! Our Bearing Fruit as a 2021 Christian.
It is Christmas Eve 2021, and we are going to be Interrupting the Silence. The Poetry and Carols of Christmas! And the Angels Sing Joy to the World!
Christmas 2021! The Glory of God’s Incarnation! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
By what standard ought We to Love all others? By Whose standard? We love only because God first loved us!
What if I Really allowed God to Love Me? Developing A Great and Intimate Relationship with God, The Father.
Who Am I in God? Who Am I God that you would desire to be in relationship with me? Who Am I to even want or desire to be in relationship with God?
I am Praising the Promise! “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?”
Psalm 116: I Prayed and God Heard me! The Grace of Answered Prayers!
Happy New Year! Live Life Like You Were Loving Life! Embrace God! Take the Risks! Embrace New Beginnings!
Embracing God as He is Embracing us! Celebrating as God Celebrates us!
Embrace God, the Father! Embrace God the Son! Embrace God the Holy Spirit! Celebration of their Presence!
We are Made in the Image of God – It is the very Basis for Our Significance!
Waiting on God as He is Waiting upon You! Do You Wonder If God Approves of You? Why would God Wait On Me?
Arise, Shine; for thy Light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. God’s Light, Our Life!
Powerful People are Transformed, Renewed and Empowered by God!
Prayer: The Promise of Praying Together (Matthew 18:19-20)
Making a Genuine Investment in our Futures. Investing in Self or in Jesus?
When Making our Life’s Investment in Jesus, Walk Worthy of the Calling!
Unconventional Leadership: Those who would exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who would truly humble themselves will be exalted!”
Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayers. My heart is overwhelmed: God of my Salvation, I Pray! Lead me unto the Rock which is Higher than I!
O’ Lift up your heads, O ye gates; And be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors: And the King of glory will come in!
In Christ, we are being Transformed into a New Creation! We are Helping More People Become God’s Friends!
Tell Your Heart to Beat Again! Facing, Confronting our Fears, Trusting God!
My Soul Praises You, O’ Lord for I am So Fearfully and Wonderfully Made!
Relationship with God, the Father! Our Relationship with God the Son! Our Relationship with God the Holy Spirit! God, You know me Perfectly!
5 Powerful Lessons from Psalm 139 about God’s Truest Wonderfulness!
The Beautiful Significance of “Let the Words of My Mouth and Meditation of My Heart” spoken in Psalm 19:14!
Psalm 19: Declare the Glory of God!
Matthew 5:7 AMP, “Blessed [content, sheltered by God’s promises] are the merciful, for they will receive mercy.
Life is not being fair? Getting your Heart and Your Soul under Control. The Importance Of 1 Peter 3:13-18.
Asking and Answering the Questions: “Who Am I?” “What is My Purpose?” Finding your Place & Purpose in life.
When You Struggle with Self-Worth, Always Try Hard to Remember this: You Are Somebody Special to God!!!
A New Position, A New Reality, A New Focus, A New Perspective – Heavens!!
Turn your Eyes upon Jesus. Look Full into His Wonderful Face. The Things of this Earth will Grow Strangely Dim in the Light of His Glory and Grace.
Our Other Serenity Prayer: You have said, “Seek MY face.” My heart says to you, “Your face, Lord, do I Seek.” — Psalms 27:8 (ESV)
Psalm 1: God’s Stability within an Unstable World: The Blessed Man Feeds Himself, and He Nourishes Himself, by the Whole Word of God.
1 John 3:16-24– By this, do we know the genuine, true love of God? Are we Loving by Deed, and by God’s Truth?
Matthew 5:6, Blessed Are Those Who Hunger and Thirst for Righteousness
How firm a foundation you saints of the Lord, is laid for your faith in his excellent Word! What more can He say than to you He has said, to you who for refuge to Jesus have fled? Praying for Wisdom | James 1:5-8
When You Need Hope for Your Day: A Prayer and 5 Truths from Psalm 121.
My Jesus, My Savior of All Comfort, I Pray You will keep Me Near thy Cross!
What Jesus Did! ‘Beyond Mourning’ ‘Beyond our Grieving’— Matthew 5:4
Matthew 5:4 | Blessed are THEY that mourn: for THEY shall be comforted. What About those Blessed Mourners?
God said, Show Me Your Friends and I Will Surely Show You Your Character!
Proverbs 11:25: Watering Others and Getting Watered Yourself. Meaning of the Generous Person Will Prosper.
Jeremiah 29:11 Digging Deeper with God. Understand the Real Meaning of ‘For I Know the Plans I Have for You’!
Word of God! Speak Your life into Me and Over Me! O’ Restore My Soul! We Can Find Power in His Word! We Can Find Genuine Life! (Hebrews 4:12)
Walking Upon God’s Well-Trodden Path (Meditation on Psalm 119:15-16)
A Teachable Heart. A Teachable Soul. A Teachable Life. On Psalm 119:15-16.
From Every Single Street Corner, Let the Word Go Forth! Praise the Lord!! Let all our Praises Sing Out unto God! Let All Voices Shout Out: God Wins!!!
Who is it who is Really and Ultimately in 100% Absolute Control of our Life? Just Exactly Whose Plan is it Anyway?
Come! Let us Be Continuously Joyful in Hope. Come! Let us be Continually Patient in Affliction, Come, Let us be Continually, Continuously Faithful in an Attitude of Prayer—Romans 12:12
Happy Valentine’s Day! The Love of God in the Light of Valentine’s Day!
As Much as it is Possible with Me, be Joyful in Hope, Patient in Affliction, Faithful in Prayer—Romans 12:12
Am I like a person who looks at his face in a mirror, studies his features, goes away, and immediately forgets what he looks like? James 1:22-25
Now I Choose to Believe! Now, Let Us all Choose to Believe! A Shared Prayer for Difficult Times! Our Confidence is Forever Secure in God’s Faithfulness!
Holy Spirit, You are Welcome Here! Come! Holy Spirit Rain Down! Being Taught, Counselled by the Holy Spirit
Our Holiness with God. What a Friend we [all] have in Jesus! All our Sins and Griefs to Bear. What a [true]Privilege to Carry Everything to God in Prayer!
Psalm 46:10! What Does “Be Still and Know That I Am God” Really Mean?
I am Practicing the Presence of God today. I need His Healing Presence! Abiding in the Presence of My Jesus!
Faithful in our Little Things. Faithful in our Wealth of Poverty! Why do we Choose Faith in God? Luke 16:10-11
Proverbs 21:21 > What is the Single Greatest Pursuit We Can Undertake?
An Invitation is An Invitation! Come! Freely Drink! Come Freely Eat! Come Freely Live! O’ Come and Be Satisfied!
Guess What? Grace Wins! God Wins! The Assurance of God’s Part in it All!
With All of My Heart, With All of My Soul, With All of My Strength, I Will Either Fear Man or I Will Trust God!
I Can Only Imagine Christ my Savior is Approaching my Door, Standing at my Doorway, and He is Getting Ready to Start Knocking, on my Doorway ….
Softly and Tenderly, Jesus is Calling, Calling for You and For Me. So, Come! Take the Chance! Seek the Whole of the Lord While He May be Found!!!!
When Living Hope is all that Remains for us to Live our Lives by. Psalm 42:2
A Timely, Seasonal, Reflection on the Value of Self-Reflection. In Christ, is there Genuine “God-Esteem”? Acts 3:19.
About Our Time Management skills with God. Our Timely Fellowship God
Open Hearts! Open Souls! Open Lives! Open Hands! Open Hope! Open Faith! Open Doors! Living into God’s Time!
Yes! There is Hope, Refreshment, Satisfaction, for our Weary Souls!
When is our very last prayer spoken? Another Word about Self-Reflections and Confession | Prophet Joel 2:12-14
Man Shall Not Live by Bread Alone – A Brief Reflection upon Matthew 4:4
A Final Personification of Wisdom… Rethinking the Proverbs 31 Standard
“Actions Speak Louder than Words ” True or Not True? Are Deeds a Better Sign of Love Than Words? 1 John 3:18
How do we Imagine God to be when we, Sinners in the Hands of a Singing and Dancing God, Pray? Luke 11:9-13
“Sweet Hour of Prayer! Sweet Hour of Prayer, that Calls Me from a World of Care. Bids me at my Father’s Throne, make all my Wants, Wishes Known.” Giving God His Due!!! Philippians 4:7
Seeing Yourself Through the Eyes of God? – Remember! One Passion! One Devotion! One Love! Exactly One God!
My Broken Dreams Were Restored! David’s Humble Prayer. 2 Samuel 7
“Search Me, O’ God! Put Me upon thy Witness Stand! Go Ahead, God, Cross Examine my Life!” Psalms 139:23-24
Search Me, O God, Know My Heart!!! Examine Me and Know my Thoughts! More Time with God. Psalms 139:23
A Thousand Hallelujah’s, A Thousand Thousand More for My God in Whom is my Dwelling Place, Whom I Trust!!!
James 1:12 Trust and Obey. For there is No Other Way. But to be Happy in Jesus. To Trust! Obey! Live! Blessed Is the One Who Perseveres Under Trials.
How To Test the Practical Reality of Your ‘Real’ and ‘Practical’ Religion. They Will Know We are Christians by Our (__________) James 1:26-27
Living for Jesus: Don’t Grow Weary in Doing Good to All – Galatians 6:9-10
Thinking and Believing, Reaching and Knowing, Speaking, Listening, and Hearing and Doing, Living and Loving from God’s own Perspective.
There is Within my Heart a Melody! Jesus, Jesus, Sweetest Name I Know! He Fills my Every Longing, Keeps me Singing as I Go! Jeremiah 29:13-14
Behold! A Day is Coming Soon! One God! One King! One Day! O’ What a Day of Great Rejoicing that Will Be!
Forward to Christian Maturity: How do I Obtain a Blessing | 1 Peter 3:8-12
God is Asking Us …. Do We want Him to Bless Us today? Proverbs 28:18-22
Abounding, Abundant, Faithfulness is the True Keys to God’s Blessings. Wisdom From: Proverbs 28:18-22
Whether I am Abounding within the Abundance of God’s Blessings, in the Absence of Blessings, there is still the Power of “YET!” Habakkuk 3:17-19
Why “Faith, Hope, and Love” Are So Important and WILL Last Forever.
Help Me to Trust in You, O’ Lord! Be Thou My Wisdom! |Proverbs 3:5–6|
A Word to The Wise on Finding Your Way: Commit Yourself unto the Lord. Friends, Come, Find the Quiet Center!
A Father to the Fatherless. What to Believe When “Dad” Walks Away? What to Believe of God, our Father?
In the Pit with the King: Persistence, Patience and Purpose |Psalm 40:1-3|
So, Have I Not Commanded You? Be Strong and Courageous! Joshua 1:9
Fellow Christians, “As Iron Sharpens Iron,” So You too Can Truly Influence Others for the Better! |Proverbs 27:17
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, No Other Name, No Other Option, No Other Power. A Study of Acts 4:1-12
Gazing upon the unseen face of God changes our Perspective. Psalm 27:4
Imagine the Possibility! I am Finding Myself at a Loss for Words! Escaping the Thought Trap!!! |Joshua 1:7 – 9|
Romans 5:8 | The Surprising Gospel |
Romans 5:8 |The Surprising Gospel of God: What does the Surprise Look Like? “I Loved You at Your Darkest!”
Romans 5:6-8 |The Surprise Gospel | I am so Struggling with the Surprise!
Romans 5:6-8 |The Surprise Gospel | We Shall All See God as He Really Is!!!
Luke 19:33-34 ||Devotion in Action|| “My God! The Lord has need of ME!?”
Countdown to Calvary: We Walk into Jerusalem with Jesus. Jesus Wants us to see Humble Service – Philippians 2
Countdown to Calvary: Humility, We See Jesus – Dying to Bear Much Fruit. Lessons in our Living John 12:20 – 26
Countdown to Calvary. On the very prospect of Suffering for our faith – Do Not be Surprised! Only Rejoice in the Lord Always! (1 Peter 4:12 – 19)
Countdown to Calvary. We Have Set both our feet inside the Upper Room. The Humility of Love. John 13:1-17
Countdown to Calvary. An Agonizing Walk into the Garden of Gethsemane. Jesus and Us. – MATTHEW 26:36-46
Countdown to Calvary: Walking with the Chief Priests and Pharisees into Pilates Palace. “Order the Tomb to be made secure!” (Matthew 27:62-66)
Its Easter!! A New Countdown to Life Begins! A New Hope and a New Living Morning is Here! The SON is Risen!!!
WHO IS THIS JESUS? (ROMANS 3:21-26)
Zeal Must be Based Upon Knowledge. Zealous Adherence to God’s Truth!!—Search and Survey of Romans 10 (1-2)
The Cry of a Christian Heart. God’s Righteousness Versus Our Own Self Righteousness—Romans 10:3
What does it mean to say Jesus Christ is the End of The Law—Romans 10:4
“I Know the Way by Heart!” Moses Described the Way of Righteousness That Is by The Law—Romans 10:5
A Believers Believing Heart, The Word of God, The Word of Faith, The Word of Life unto Salvation. Romans 10:6-9.
The Heart Believes and it is Justified, the Mouth Confesses and is Saved. Is Public Confession Necessary or Even Essential for Salvation? Romans 10:9-10
Genuinely, Do We 100%, Each Honestly Believe Everyone Who Calls Upon the Name of the Lord Will Truly Be Saved? Romans 10:8-13
Beautiful Are the Feet of Those Who Bring Good News—About Preaching the Gospel of God. Romans 10:14-15
What about our Preaching the Gospel? Who has Believed our Message? What of our Excuses for not preaching, not speaking God’s Word? Romans 10:16-21
Consider how to Motivate each Other. Just how to Stir One another Up to love being the Church. Hebrews 10:19-25.
Radical Encouragement, Radical Motivation: The Principle of Radical Generosity. What Jesus Really Means By: “Give and It Will Be Given to You.” Luke 6:37-38
Motivated and Encouraged to Believe in God. Evidence which God Revealed that Proves He Exists. Believe God is revealing Himself through NATURE. Psalm 19
I am so Encouraged and Motivated to Believe in God. If The Heavens and the Earth Declare His Glory, What Do Yours and Mine Eyes See? Psalm 19:1-6
I am greatly encouraged and deeply motivated to believe in God by these Mightily Inspiring Promises of God’s Presence and Protection. Psalm 18:2
Encouraged and Highly Motivated to Believe in God. The Necessity of The Creation in The Gospel. Psalm 19:1-6
I am Encouraged and Motivated and Mightily Inspired to Believe in God. The Law’s Lesson: Come, Fully Desire God in the beauty of his Holiness. Psalm 19:7-11
Motivated and encouraged, and now, Inspired to Believe in God. What then may be the Next Step for us? “Delight Yourself in the Lord” Psalm 37:4-6
Encouraged to Believe. Motivated to Believe. Inspired to Believe. Desire to Believe. Make Me Acceptable in Your Sight, O LORD (Psalm 19:12-14)
“When upon this earth, when my life is all said and done, God, let me have the only true desire of my heart……” My God Honoring Words and my God Honoring Thoughts. – Psalms 19:14
Happy Mother’s Day! God’s Priceless Legacy: The Hope of Faithful Moms.
Distracted from Believing in God or Driven to Holiness? Do We Wear our High-Tech or His Holy Headphones?
God speaks into One ear, and we end up coming out the other. Our habit of Selective Listening, Elective Hearing.
Those Who have Ears let them Hear what the Lord God is saying to them Today. Please make their Ears Tingle.
Hearing God |Today, IF You Hear His Voice Do Not Harden Your Heart to it.
God Speaks! Are we Hearing Him or Are We Instead Testing Him? Mark 12:28-34
From defeat and disobedience, from testing God to acceptance. How do we hear Him when He speaks? 1 Samuel 3
To know God, to believe in God, to Follow Jesus, We Need to Learn to Listen to His Voice. Exodus 3:1-5
“I am Praying to God. I am Listening for God’s answer and I can almost hear Him speak it to me. There is so much static. What am I to do now?” Daniel 9
Prayer Starts with God (Isaiah 65:24; 1 John 5:12-15; Romans 8:26-30)
Confidence and Carefulness in our Prayer Life – It all begins with our Confidence in God. 1 John 5:12-17
Footprints in the Sand. Confidence in the Sovereignty of God. When we find It hard to Pray, there is Grace even before our Asking for it. Romans 8:26-30.
Happy Birthday! God, What Should I Pray for Now? A Feast of “Not so Much,” a Feast of “Just Right” or “Too Much?”
About Addressing the Silence of God. “Okay God, I am Praying! Demanding! Where for Art Thou now?” Psalm 28
When Heaven Seems Too Silent. The “silent treatment”? How might we respond when God seems so distant?
About our Addressing the Silence of God in our life. Turning our Silence and our Souls over to God. “Unto God I Will Turn and Lift Up My Hands.” Psalm 28
See! I am raising my un-holy hands. I have Made my decision to Speak, my demands to be Heard. But tell me who is there to hear me, to come between me, my friends and my God? Job 9.
Examining My Perception of Myself. What about Changing my Thinking, Revolutionizing my Life? Job 9:20-21
Walking into the crying faces of Uvalde, Texas, of Buffalo, New York. Can I have Confidence in God’s Presence? What Assurances that God has not, will not, leave us behind? Deuteronomy 31:1-8
O’ My Soul, Never Give Up! ALWAYS BELIEVE! There is always hope! God is always there to uphold Us! Psalm 22:1-2
Is my cup half full or half empty? Am I, are WE, seeing the God possibilities?
Is Your Glass Half Empty or Half Full? Think Again! Attitude of your Hearts.
Memorial Day: Remembering God is Remembering You. Deuteronomy 8:11
Is my cup half full or half empty? Is my doubt a half a doubt or a whole doubt? The Doubting Thomas that lives and breathes within Us all. John 20:24-25
Encountering the Resurrection – The Presence of Jesus – “Breathe on Me!” The Gospel of John 20:19-23.
I am Encountering the Resurrection. “My Lord and my God!” John 20:26-29
I have encountered the Resurrection. Receiving the free gift of God’s Grace: “Charisma” Romans 5:15-21
Did The Holy Spirit Only Empower 12 Disciples on The Day of Pentecost? Acts 1:4-8
ACTS 2 – PENTECOST! GOD FULFILLS HIS PROMISE! THE HOLY SPIRIT IS POURED OUT UPON THE CHURCH.
I am reaching for the unquestionably great promise of now unquestionably living the unquestionably great life of Christ – seeking God with my WHOLE heart, my WHOLE soul. Acts 2:37-39
Thus, saith the Lord, DO NOT act as if you are going to live forever because you most definitely are NOT! Acts 2:41.
Fresh Fire: Becoming the Person God Has Called You to Be. 1 Corinthians 2:12
Ordering our First Steps. Moving Forth into Mission and Ministry. Proverbs 9:10
Moving forward into Ministry: Trust, Faith, a Living Hope, after a Tragedy. Job 13:13-18
Fresh Fire: Plug into His Power. Move from Your strength into His Strength
Trinity Sunday. The Diversity of God is Interrupting the Silence of the Silent. Bearing up to the Unbearable World. Gospel of John 16:12-15
Happy, Blessed, Highly Favored are those whose Strength is in the Lord: The Secret of Usefulness. Psalm 84
YAHWEH Sabaoth, “The Lord of Hosts.” Our Battles belong to the Lord Alone!
Searching for a Miracle. Considering the Power of Salvation. “If I could but touch the hem of His Garment.” Mark 5:25-34
Expecting a Miracle. Matthew 9:18-30.
The Miracle of delayed Miracles. After what literally seems like a lifetime, the Lame WILL finally LEAP up. Acts 3:1-10
God’s Miracle of Now: “Exactly the Right Moment” Thoughts on the Glory of God, and our 2022 Celebration of JuneTeenth
Our Celebration of Father’s Day 2022. Honor in the Home. Exodus 20:12
Parenting by Faith. Why is Faith in God so vitally important to today’s Families? Deuteronomy 6:4-9, Ephesians 6:1-4.
Parenting! Will you bless your children? Will you affirm and love them the way God originally intended? Genesis 1:26-27
Fulfilling The Great Commission: Convolution of Same Sex Marriage.
Where God’s Charity and Truest Love Prevails. Making our Relationships Work. The Role of Sexual Intimacy in Marriage. Genesis 1:26-28 and 2:24-25.
What Does the Bible Teach us About Sexual Orientation? What is our God’s Answer for the Complex Question of our Sexual Orientation? Genesis 1:26-28
What does it mean to have Quality of Life? The Vanity of our Contemplating a Life without God. Ecclesiastes 1:12-14
When Giving Advice: “It is always wise, wiser, and wisest to pay close, closer, closest attention to who you pay close, closer, closest attention to.” 1Kings 12
Heartbeat of Love and Hate. “I Love to Hate!” “I Hate to Love!” 1 John 3:11-18.
God, our Creator and Our Emotional Health. Connecting our whole selves with the Word of God. Mark 12:28-34
Okay, Let’s talk about our Self-Control. “God, become My Guide and Guardian right EXACTLY NOW!” Proverbs 25:28
The Gospel in a Nutshell – Courage! Leaving it all Behind. Mark 10:46-52
The Gospel of Jesus Christ in a Nutshell: Is the Good News for everyone? Is there always someone around to abundantly help or hinder all others? Mark 10:47-49
The Gospel in a Nutshell: And so, Jesus Asked, He is still Asking, “What Do You Want Me to Do for You?” Mark 10:49-51
The Gospel in a Nutshell: The Son of Man Came to Serve. Mark 10:35-45.
The Gospel of our GOD in a Nutshell: Servants of Freedom. Exodus 3:10-15
The Gospel of our GOD in a Nutshell. Servanthood in God’s Neighborhood.
Servanthood in God’s Neighborhood: I Serve for the JOY of Accomplishing the Goal which God has Placed before me.
Servanthood in God’s Neighborhood: Heavenly Economics. Proverbs 11:24-28.
Servanthood in God’s Neighborhood Selfless Service inside a Selfie World.
One Reality of the Gospel Life: How to Be Selfless: An In-Depth Guide for us Selfish People. Galatians 3:6-8 Msg.
Selflessly Modeling Jesus’ Example: Learning how to see others, up to and including, Ourselves! Ephesians 5:1-2
Imitating Jesus. Modeling Jesus. Learning to See Our Neighbors and Ourselves (Part 2). Ephesians 5:1-2
Why should I be a Servant anyways? Because our Loving our God Means Submitting to God. Matthew 20:20-28
Why Should I Walk with God and with His Blessings? Deuteronomy 5:32-33.
Summer Vacation and Sharing the Gospel: Having fun and Overcoming Spiritual Shyness. 2 Timothy 1:3-12.
Entering into God’s neighborhood: Witnessing to Anyone, at Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere. Luke 5:27-32.
Jesus’ Sense of Mission. Jesus Came not for the righteous but for Sinners.
In the Potter’s House, at the Potter’s Wheel: God, our Creator, is not even close to being finished with You and I and His Neighborhood. Jeremiah 18:1-11
God’s Message for God’s Church. God is at His Wheel: It’s always a Time of New Beginnings inside the Potter’s House.
How might our Church Respond to our God’s Sovereignty over its Life: “Mold Me and Make Me, This is what I Pray?”
Church Worship which truly Counts: “I am the Church. You are the Church. We are the Church Together.” Isaiah 1:10-17
Social Justice, Civil Disobedience, Unity. The Bible and the Body of Christ: “I am the Church. You are the Church. We are the Church together.” Isaiah 1:10-17.
“Life is Not Fair at all!” Social Justice, Social Conscience, the Body of Christ.
My Personal Faith. Social Justice and our God’s Call for Justice. Isaiah 1:10-26.
Our Rejection of God: How Dare We Call Ourselves Christians? Jeremiah 7:16-26.
Weaponized Narratives. Romans 3:5-8
Pondering our Christianity? Excuses! Excuses! All My Excuses! Genesis 3:8-13
Pondering my Christianity! When I am “Called to Account.” When I “know” that only One Whopper of an Excuse will get ME through a Crisis. Exodus 32
Pondering Our Christianity? No More Excuses for our Excuses? One day all of our Excuses must CEASE! Luke 14:16-24
Pondering our Christianity? So, how about speaking of Spiritual Laziness? Pondering our Excuses? Proverbs 24
Tending unto our Procrastination’s Vineyard. Couch Potato Christianity. Pondering my God. Proverbs 24:30-34
The Zeal of Ants! Get Some Ants and Put them in Your Pants! Proverbs 6:6
God’s Really Surprising Truth about our Spiritual Laziness and What We Can Genuinely Do About it. Jeremiah 17:5-8.
Our Personal Accountability to God: Biblical Guidance. Hebrews 4:10-13
Pondering our Living Hope: Everyone Will Have to Give an Account to God—Romans 14:10-12
We are Accountable for our Christian Actions. Put No Stumbling Block in Your Brother’s Way—Romans 14:13-15
What About “Maximum Availability of our Hearts and Souls?” The Kingdom of God is Righteousness, Peace and Joy in the Holy Spirit—Romans 14:16-18
Maximum Availability: Make Every Effort to Pursue, Promote Peace and Mutual Edification. Romans 14:19-21
Make, Take Time for the Holy One. Take, Make “Every Effort” to do what Leads to Your Peace and Your Mutual Edification. Mark 1:35-39
When our Work Becomes our Real Identity: Was the Apostle Paul the “Original Energy Bunny Christian?” Philippians 3:7-11
When “Church” Seems Bigger Than God. Much like the Grasshopper is as to Man. Numbers 13:30-33, Isaiah 40:21-22.
Dare to be Different! Dare to Focus on the Promises of God. Numbers 14:24
A Fresh and Sure Sighting of the Occupied Throne of Heaven. The Worship of Heaven. Revelation 4
Now, is exactly the right time! Come, Let Us Finally get excited about our Worship of our God. Revelation 4:1-11
Our One Exclusive Focus: Our Worship of the Lamb who sits upon the Throne. Revelation 4:1-11, Revelation 5:13-14.
With eyes of Joy, we will become Like what and WHO we Worship. The Lion who is also a Lamb. Revelation 5:1-14.
Envision now our Worship Central: The Lion! Worthy is the Name of the Lamb who was slain for us all. Revelation 5
How Do You Tell God You Love Him Through Your Worship? Revelation 5
Waiting for Jesus. Learning how to Walk Naturally in The Supernatural Anointing of God. Philippians 1:22-26
I’m Humbled! I’m Being Humbled! I’m Learning How to Walk Naturally in the Supernatural Anointing of a Living God.
My Renouncing my Possessions and walking Natural in the Supernatural Anointing of my Savior. Luke 14:33
Believers are “Set Apart,” “Called and Sent and Commissioned” for Mission – A Challenged, Changing Church for our Changing and most Challenging Times. Acts 13:1-4
We are all Intentionally Called by God! Intentionally Set Apart for Christ Jesus by our Water Baptism. Matthew 13:13-17
Striving to Remember the Righteous. That Difference between our “Roots and our Fruits.” Proverbs 11:3-11
Choose this Day What Riches You Will Pursue and Serve! Pray! Choose this Day Whose Righteousness You Will Pursue and Will Serve? Proverbs 11:1-11
Unrighteous Righteousness. Matthew 6:1-4 HCSB
Blessed Are Those Who Hunger and Thirst for Righteousness. Matthew 5:6
The Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Power of God, the Righteousness of God, the “Just” just faithfully walking upright with their Savior God. Romans 1:13-17
God’s Most Eager Desire for Me: To Most Eagerly Pray, To Most Eagerly Preach, To Most Eagerly Proclaim, HIS Gospel. Romans 1:8-15
My Duty and Covenant obligation to You is this: I do not want you to be unaware of God’s Words for Me and You unaware of God’s Words for You too. Romans 1:13-15
Covenant Obligation: To be Sharing our Faith Story Where Jesus Christ Is Not Known nor even Necessarily Desired. Romans 15:17-22
Is Jesus Influencing, Making, Any Measure of Difference in our Life? Colossians 1:1 – 8
Our Covenant Obligation: Our Sabbath Rest, Sabbath Reset. Redeeming our Time with the Only God of our Shalom. Exodus 20:8-11
In the Light of the Morning Sun. The Awesome Face of God on the Waters.
A Prayer does not Fix Everything, but It definitely does Change Everything!
Hope in the Lord! Be Strong! Let Your Heart take Courage! Let Your Heart be Strengthened! Keep in Step with God. Psalm 27:14
I Will Still Choose to Believe. Choose Comfort. Choose Security. I Will Still Choose the Resurrection and the Life.
I am a Singing Sinner in the hand of a Singing, Dancing and Victorious God. Zephaniah 3:14-20
Divine Ability for Human Necessity.
Lord, When I Look Up at Your Skies, at what Your Fingers have Made, Tell Me, what is Your Purpose for Me? Psalm 8:4
This is the Burden we each Share: Restoring Yet Respecting. Bearing Without Burdening. Galatians 6:2
Sometimes it Takes a Crisis to Know we Belong and are Connected to God.
Our Crossroads and God’s Roadmap. Jeremiah 6:16 and Matthew 7:13-14
Leading Lives of Consistency. Nehemiah 11:1-2, 1 John 2:4-6
Consistent Habits Will Consistently Change Everything. The Key to Desire God’s Word and Prayer. Psalm 119:18
A Most Amazing Question: If God is for Us Who Else Can Be Against Us? God has Got Your Back! Romans 8:31
Blessed Assurance! God HAS got My Back! Will I trust God to “Be There?” Will I fall Backwards into His Hands? Isaiah 6:8-10.
How Jesus Viewed Ministry Success: Focus on God’s Purposes. Luke 4.43
The Absolute Surety of God’s Love for Us. What More is there for us to say? What More is there for us to do now? 1 John 4:7-21
Being the Content Christian: Keep Calm, Carry On! Philippians 4:11-13
How To Have Faith in God When Life Gets Tough – Building Up Our House, Hearing God’s Words. Matthew 7:24
In God we will Trust though the earth gives way beneath our feet, the winds blow and the houses crumble into the heart of the sea, we will still not fear!
Embracing Forgiveness. Choosing only to Embrace the Grace, the Embrace of ABBA, our Father God. Matthew 6:14-15
Who Embraces a God Like our God of Forgiveness and Mercy? Micah 7:18-20
Let The Words of Christ Richly Dwell, Deep within our Soul! Colossians 3:16
Encouraging One Another in the Church Family. Colossians 3:16-17
Five Ways to Improve Ourselves at Encouraging One Another, Building Each Other Up. 1 Thessalonians 5:11
A Great Time for Pastor Appreciation: About His Lifetime of Labor, a Pastor After God’s Own Heart. Jeremiah 3:15
Try to Imagine Redemption: Beauty Lost, Beauty Restored. Romans 12:2
Kyrios, Jesus is Lord. Romans 10:9
Do We Recognize Jesus Christ as Our One, Only true King? Revelation 5:13
Do We Ponder or even Recognize our own Desire for HIS Vastly Better Life? Genesis 50:22-25.
Pondering and Recognizing We are Made for Good Works. Titus 3:13-15
Are we Pondering Our Compassionate Shepherd? Considering or Recognizing the ‘Reasonable’ Christian? Luke 7:13-14
Scratching my Head, I’m Reading the Bible, Pondering the Hard Questions: Is Christianity “Reasonable?” 1 Corinthians 1:17-31
Pondering, Praying, this Invitation: “Come Now, Let us Reason Together saith the Lord.” Isaiah 1:18-20
Pondering and Praying for a Blessed Life: Life Blessed By The Word Of God With a Living Courage. Psalm 119:17-24
The Word of God: Reflecting upon the Great Challenge of our Connection & Relationship with God-When In Pain, the Midst of Suffering. Exodus 3:7-9
My Personal Reflection on our Suffering in our Silence and our Perceptions of the “Silence” of ‘Father’ God. Psalm 13
A Letter to all Christian Consumers: Be Strong, Dare to Ponder upon the Word of God, to Pray Deeply and to Think more Clearly, to Understand His Intent, to Grasp His Applications. 2 Timothy 2:7
Being Strong in the Faith-Wrestling with Almighty God. 2 Timothy 2:1-7
Through the Obedience of One, Many are Made Righteous. Romans 5:18-19
Being Troubled for the Right Reason: Right Answer for the Right Question. The Right Place at God’s Right Time! Acts 17:16-20
How Hard is it to Communicate the Good News Effectively? Acts 17:16-34
The Beginning of the Facts Regarding the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God and Son of Man. Mark 1:1-8
Lets Simply Begin by Entering into His Story: The Beginning of the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ: Mark 1:1
Do we need a New Beginning? Do we need a Fresh Start with God? Mark 1:1
Mark 1:1-3 Recognizing the Place to Begin: Our Acknowledgment of our own Need to Turn our lives around.
The Only Place to Begin when we do not know where to Begin. Mark 1:4-8
The Ministry and Mission of Jesus Christ Begins. About our Faithful Discipleship, about being able to Identify with Jesus. Mark 1:9-13
The Ministry and Mission of Jesus Begins: Two Kinds of Wildernesses. Numbers 14:26-35 and Mark 1:11-15
Who of us does not long to hear these exact words from our God right now: “You are My Child, in whom I love; with whom I am well Pleased?” Mark 1:9-11
Who among us does not long to hear these words pointing them, directing them, to their Living Hope: “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the World?” John 1:25-34
Mark 1:14-15 – Our Life’s (?)Tiny, Timely Lessons about our alleged “Successes” and God’s Long Established Record of Living by His Promises and Fulfillment.
About our Developing our Passion for Communicating the Gospel. Mark 1:14-15
When we Feel Disappointed in God, the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, what is our response? What is our God’s first response? John 11:1-7
Please Do Not “GIVE UP” but instead, “TAKE UP” All of GOD’S Promises, all of GOD’S “YES!” and “AMEN!” for Your Life! 2Corinthians 1:18-22
A Lesson in Beginning Transition: 4 Tips to Understanding, Communicating the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Mark 1:1-8
Acknowledging Our Holy Discontent! Acknowledging, Allowing Ourselves to be Overcome by our Savior. Mark 1:12-13
A Lesson in Temptation: “I Give You only Good things because I have only Loved you with an Everlasting Love!” Genesis 2:4-9
He Trains My Hands for War and He Trains My Fingers for the Battle, and He also Trains my Heart and my Soul to Care. Veterans Day 2022. Psalm 144:1-2
Getting Gut-Level Honest with God. Giving God our Bitterness. Psalm 137
Stop Hiding. Be Humble. Get Honest. The Power of Being Honest with God About Your Struggle. Genesis 3:8-13.
Grace Greater than our Sin: We say God is trying to Hide Himself from us. Brutal Reality is we are trying too hard to hide our deceitful selves from God. Psalm 32
Burying our Sins in our Backyards? Our Sin being Hidden in Plain Sight? Buried, Burying, Unburying Achan’s Treasures? Joshua 7:16-26
Am I Playing Hide and Seek with God? Do I Know this: Nothing in All of God’s Creation is ever Hidden from the Eyes and the Word of God? Hebrews 4:12-15
The Glory of our Mutual Relationship. Peek-a-Boo I See You! Playing Hide-and-Go Seek with God. Proverbs 25:2
Individually and as God’s Church, How Can We All Avoid Letting a Bitter Root Grow Out of Our Lives? Hebrews 12:15-17
About Our Holding On To Our Past – Grudges and Resentments, Regrets, And Remorse’s. Philippians 3:7-16
We Are Saved By The Grace Of God. Matthew 25:31-46
Only But By The Grace of God: When God Lets You See Victory. Psalm 118:5
Today, I am Pondering the Goodness of God, Who Is My Savior. “God is Great. God is Good. Let us Thank Him for ……..” Psalm 65:4
When You Cannot nor Do not Feel Like Being Thankful this Thanksgiving, Why Should we Pray? 1 Thessalonians 5:12-18
A Christian’s Expression of Love for Thanksgiving: How Big a Collection of “Memorial Stones” to God’s Goodness and God’s Faithfulness? Joshua 4:1-7
Earthquake! Unleashing the Power of Praise and Thanksgiving! Acts 16:22-34
Christian Thanksgiving: ALL Thanks be unto God for His Unshakable Kingdom. Hebrews 12:25-29
Preparation for Advent. Idolatry – We Become Who and What we Worship. Idols and Images and God. Psalm 115:1-8
Preparation for Advent. Idolatry – all about Our Name or ALL about God’s Fame? Some Hidden Lessons from the ‘ancient’ Tower of Babel. Genesis 11:1-9
Preparation for Advent: Scratching My Head, Asking the Hard Question: “Why Isn’t God Fair?” Asaph’s Song Psalm 73
Who has any Hope now for “The Great I Am?” Idolatry, Equality with God? “To whom then will you compare Me That I would be his equal?” says the Holy One. Isaiah 40:12-31
Where does all our true Advent Hope Rest? Answer: God is “UN” Equaled! Isaiah 40:25-26
O Comfort Me, O Lord; The Journey Is Too Hard! There’s a Reason for Hope! Our Unchanging God! Isaiah 40:1-11
I am Precious in God’s Sight. The God of the Impossible Knows MY whole Name! I Know He Knows All Your Names Too! Isaiah 43:1-7
Advent Week Two: What Joy in the Lord? Mary’s Response to Joy – “O My God!” My Lord Truly Knew MY Name!” Luke 1:26-38
Advent Week Two: What Joy in the Lord? I will Recall the Works of Our Lord, all the Power of God’s Miracles. Psalm 77
Advent Week Two: What Joy in the Lord? Turning Christmas Chaos into Christmas Joy, Embrace Uncertainty! Luke 2:8-20
What Ordinary Joy is there left for us in our Extraordinarily Extraordinary God? Ode to Joy? Where Exactly is all of our Extraordinarily Extraordinary Joy in our One Extraordinarily Extraordinary God? Luke 2:15-20.
How Am I Living Out all of my Joy in My Lord? Ordinary Shepherds being made Extraordinary Missionaries. Seeing all of our God’s Extraordinary Inclusiveness. Luke 2:15-20
Christmas Joy! Christmas Characters! Joy of the Shepherds, Joy of the Angels We Have Heard on High. Luke 2:8-15
Hark, the Herald Angels and Shepherds Sing: “The Glory of the Lord has Shone All Around Them.” Luke 2:8-11, Luke 2:12-20
An Indescribable Joy, An Undeniable Presence: We Were Made to Reflect the Glory of the Lord! Created in the Image of God to Shine Forth! Exodus 40:34-38
Advent Week Three: “And The Word became Flesh and Lived Among Us.” “We Actually Beheld His Glory, Actually Full of Grace and Full of Truth.” John 1:14-18
Ecclesiastes 3:11 Our Vision For Eternity: Advent Week Three: “And the Word became Flesh and He LIVED Among Us!”
Today, Why Should Anyone be Asking Themselves this Question: Am I Telling Coming Generations My GOD Stories? Psalm 78:1-4
From Generation unto Generations: Hope for The Coming Generations! Judges 2:6-10.
4 Magnificent Faith Moments When Mary Visits Elizabeth. Luke 1:39-45
What Is So Magnificent About Mary Walking 90 Miles to Visit Elizabeth? Luke 1:39-45
“It is ALL in Our DOING!” 10 Ideas to Bring Your Family, Your Friends and Your Neighbors a Wee Little Bit More of God’s Love this Christmas. 1 John 4:7-21
“It is truly ALL Within all our Doing!” Zachariah’s Testimony of Faith. The Story Before the Story! Luke 1:5-17
Remember, it is all within our doing: Our Being Ready for God’s Surprises. Luke 1:5-25
YAHWEH REMEMBERS! The Songs of Christmas – Zechariah’s – A New Song for all those Generations of Doubting, Yet, Righteous Souls. Luke 1:67-80
“Come, Magnify Jehovah God With Me!” Songs of Christmas: Mary’s Song of her Truly Magnificent Theology! Luke 1:46-55
Paying Attention to God: Waiting for Something Definitely Better – For Our Salvation. Songs of Christmas, Songs of Simeon’s and Anna’s Joy. Luke 2:21-38
Confident Expectations! The Songs of Christmas: The Servant Songs and the Greatest Service of All. Isaiah 49:1-13
Immanuel, Our Christmas Hallelujah! Psalm 146, Isaiah 9:6-7, and etcetera
Christmas According to Immanuel: Grace and Truth Incarnate Has Come Near to Us, Come to Fully Live With Us, and to Fully Live Within Us. John 1:14-18
To Being Alive! To Be Able to Live! To be Living Into His Truth! “I Will Look Up to You, Immanuel, I Will Lift Up My Soul.” Psalm 25:1-15
Alive and Being Alive in Immanuel: Do We Know Where We are Going? Faith and Failure – Part One: Abram’s Faith. Genesis 12:1-9
Alive and Our Being Alive in God: Part Two – Our Inevitable Struggle Between Faith and our Failures. Genesis 12:10-20
From Faith to Failure and Back to Faith: Walk God’s Pathway Back to Wellness. Proverbs 3:5-8
Are We Going to Celebrate, Praise God, for What He Has Already Done for Us in 2022? Why Does Anyone Anticipate or Confidently Expect, to Celebrate God’s Grace in this Coming Year? Isaiah 63:7-9
“A Sermon in Shoes.” Aligning Our NEW New Year’s Resolutions With The Bible. Ecclesiastes 12:9-14
We Are Each a “Sermon in Shoes”: Our Acknowledging The Vine: Recognizing the Fruit God Produces in Our Lives. John 15:1-8
Are We Thinking About Our Being “A Sermon in Shoes?” Of Discerning the ‘Fruitful’ Direction of Our Thoughts? Psalm 139:23-24
We Are All A Sermon in Shoes – “Coram Deo” – Our Living Into the Abundance of Our Lives in the Presence of Our God Who Is Our Savior. 1 Corinthians 3:1-4
“Coram Deo” – Living Our Lives in the Presence of God. Why is Our Spiritual Maturity Important? 1Corinthians 3:1-4
“Coram Deo” Living Our Lives in the Presence of Christ Who is Our Savior: Six Biblical Essentials For Christian Maturity. Selected Verses Hebrews 12
Being A Sermon in Shoes: Living Out Our Lives Walking, Wearing the Sandals of our Rabbi Jesus: Walking by Faith Upon His Straight, and Narrow Path. Matthew 7:13-14
The Divine Order of Things: Seeking the Lord Who Is our God: Walking, Living, Upon the Straight and the Narrow Path. Matthew 7:13-14
Asking Ourselves the Easy and Hard Questions About Walking Upon the Broad or Straight and Narrow Paths. Matthew 7:13-14
Daring to ask ourselves the Question: Take the Broad Road or Narrow Road, – Is Salvation Easy? Matthew 7:13-14
Are We Asking Ourselves the Hardest Questions? Broad Road to Narrow, Do We Know How to Move Past all of our “Epic” Failures? Hebrews 4:15-16
We Are Not Defined by Our Failures! Begin by Letting Go of Self and Move thy Life Into Christ. 2Corinthians 13:5-9
Whether Living a Mindset of Success or Living a Mindset of Failure: Living Into a Mindset of Spirit, of His Life, His Peace. Romans 8:5-8
Proverbs 21:20-21 > The Great Single Minded Christian Pursuit of Success.
My Success Reframed by God: “I Will Surely Be Blessed Even Though (____) Because The Lord Is All I Ever Need.” Psalm 23
“Oh, that I had the Wings of a Dove! My Soul would fly away and be at rest, My Heart, so to fly far away from the raging “Tempest” in My Life!” Psalm 55:1-8
Our Time Alone With God. Jesus, with His Sleeping Disciples in the Garden of Gethsemane. Luke 22:39-46
Marking out our Pathways to Solitude. “Alone Time,” Making Time with God, Having our Time with God. Luke 5:14-16
What if we are Contemplating Falling Out of Love with God? We Desire No time alone with God? Our Preference? We will devote No more time for God. Psalm 13
Is there Christianity without our Living, Loving, the Life of Christ? John 13:34-35
What is the Witness of Our Churches? Churches With No Heart for, Nor any Memory of their ‘FIRST’ Love for God? Revelation 2:1-7
Whatever You do for God, Do it All with Gusto! Because He “Anoints” Our Heads With Oil and All of Our Cups Overflow! Psalm 23:5, Ecclesiastes 9:7-10
God Anoints Our Heads With Oil, Our Cups Overflow: Our ‘Prayer Over Our Cups’, Our Understanding of the Oils: Its The Word of God. Psalm 119:33-40
“My Dear God, Great Instructor of My Life, My God, Teach Me Your Lessons for Living, So I Stay on the Right Course!” Psalm 119:33-40
Prerequisites for Purposeful Living: “Give Ear and Hear My voice, Listen and Hear My Speech.” Proverbs 2:1-5
Benefits and Value of God’s Wisdom. Proverbs Chapter 2
The Quickest and Most Courageous Way to Make an Attitude Adjustment. Hebrews 4:10-13
Attitude Adjustment: Our Leaving Matters in God’s Hands. Genesis 16
An Attitude Adjustment? How Can We Know ‘Goodness and Mercy Will Follow’ Us When We are Hurting? Psalm 23:6
Actually Leaving Matters unto God’s Hands: Making the Best Use of God’s Time. Ephesians 5:11-20
My Life is Under Pressure, My Faith is Under Pressure, “Even Though My Life is Being Torn,” I Will Make Time for God! James 1:2-4
Living Life Under Pressure: Dr. Jekyll, and Mr. Hyde and Our “Christianality.” Ephesians 4:17-24
Evidence God Is at Work in Our Lives. John 5:17
“Do You Really Want to be Made Well?” Surrender to God’s Healing in Your Life! John 5:1-9
5 Ways to Truly Engage, Enjoy Christ. Luke 24:28-35
Our Gracious Host Forever Following, and Our Vigilant Shepherd is Forever Keeping Us Safe Inside His Dwelling Place. Psalm 23:6
What Does it Mean to Really Walk with God in Faith? Genesis 5:21-24
And As Enoch First Did, How Are We to Walk in Fellowship with God? Genesis 5:21-24
Can I Walk in Faith with God Alone, Absent of any Community of Faith? 2Corinthians 5:11-15
For We Walk by Faith and Not by Sight. 2 Corinthians 5:6-10
What Is this Spiritual Gift of Faith? 1Corinthians 12:4-11
Growing Up to Become a Child – Descriptions of a Childlike Faith. Matthew 18:1-5
“Ambitious” Guests of Honor: Jesus Teaches About Humility and Service. Luke 14:7-14
Utterly Unconventional Love of God and Saint Valentine’s Day. Ephesians 3:17-19
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling: My Reflections on the Sure Love of God on Valentine’s Day. Ephesians 5:22-32
Our Lives For the Sake of the Gospel. Philippians 1:12-14.
“Stones of Remembrance!” God’s Call to Remember Revival. Joshua 4:4-7, 19-24
Are we Looking Through Heaven’s Open Door? 10 Reasons We Should Believe in Heaven. Revelation 4:1-4
A Comforting Question, Thought, For Today: Scripturally Speaking, What Do We Believe Heaven is Like? John 14:1-6
Blessings From God’s Word: Bless Me and Revive Me, O’ God. Make Your Face to Shine Bright Upon Me, Your Servant. Psalm 119:129-136
Asking Ourselves the Hard Questions, Preparing for Lent, How Is God’s Power Made Perfect in All of Our Weaknesses? 2 Corinthians 12:7-10
Lenten Preparation for Repentance: When Our Defenses Crumble, Where Will We Run to take Refuge? Psalm 11
Ash Wednesday: Deciding, Will We Ever Consent to Give Any Living Hope to Our Ailing and Hurting Hearts? Joel 2:12-14
20/20 Hindsight. The “Right Ways” and The “Wrong Ways,” All the “Ways” that Seem So Right to Us. Proverbs 14:11-13
Psalm 46 Be Still and Ponder Upon the Importance of How We Each View God.
What is God Like? He is Merciful and Gracious, Slow to Anger, Abounding in Steadfast Love, in Goodness, and Truth. Exodus 34:5-9
Loved by and Belonging to God, the Giver of Law and the Giver of Liberty. Exodus 20:1-2
What does it mean for us to have no other gods before God? Exodus 20:1-3
The Second Commandment: Have or Make No Image Engraved or in Mind. Exodus 20:1-4
The Fourth Commandment: Our Rest, Our Witness. Remember the Sabbath. Exodus 20:8-11
“It is For God Alone My Soul Waits in Silence.” Psalmists Invitation to Pray a Prayer of Rest for Our Sabbath Days. Psalm 62.
For Grace to Grow Up: What is God’s Greatest Desire for Us and Our Lives? Psalm 139:13-18
Honoring Parents, Honoring God. Exodus 20:12
What Does it Really Look Like to ‘Honor Your Father and Mother’? Exodus 20:12, Deuteronomy 5:16
Living our Life and Honoring Our God, Living Our Life, Respecting, Honoring Generations of our Families, Honoring and Respecting Our Grand Parents. Proverbs 17:6
Our God is Truly an Awesome God: We Are All Fearfully and Wonderfully Made. Genesis 1:27, Psalm 139:14
Question for Today: What Does it Mean Today to Love Our Neighbors as We All Love Ourselves? Mark 12:30-31 [28-34]
“Jesus Loved Even Me.” 1 John 4:7-10
Pondering the Word of God: What Does it Mean For Us to Say, and to Believe and to Also Act Upon, ‘God Is Love’? 1 John 4:7-8?
Distant or Delighted? Not Feeling the Love of God? How About Learning to See Jesus With a Smile? 1 John 3:1-3
Jesus Christ is Able to Save Completely Because He Has Permanent Priesthood. Hebrews 7:23-25
A Psalm of Life: It is Never All About You, Neither Will It Ever Be All About Me. Hebrews 7:23-25
In Heaven He Stands: The Only Psalm of Life, Christ Jesus. Hebrews 7:23-25
What Happens When We Think Precious Thoughts about Jesus? Romans 12:1-3
Spiritual Transformation: A Hope Filled Spiritual Mindset. 1 Peter 1:13-16
Becoming Like Christ: Steps Towards Spiritual Freedom. 2 Corinthians 3:17
Seeking, Growing Intimacy in Your Relationships. Deuteronomy 4:29-31
Our Love’s for God’s Most Generous Expression: Our Learning, Growing, Living, Doing, in the Family of Faith. Hebrews 13:1-3
Serving God and Blessing Neighbors, Should be a Family Affair. Psalm 128
Spiritual Perception:”The Word of the Lord Was All Too Rare in Those Days.” 1 Samuel 3:1-10
Hearing God’s Voice? 1 Samuel 3:1-10
Studying, Meditating, Pondering Upon Ways We Can Hear from God Regularly. Habakkuk 2:1-4
Tune My Ears, God! I Will Choose to Listen and Believe the Voice of Truth. John 10:1-5
The Compelling Truth: What is the Importance of Family Devotions? Deuteronomy 6:4-9
Whether We Believe It or Not, God Does Have Incredible Plans for Us! Jeremiah 29:10-14
Could Jeremiah 29:11 Have A Far, Far Deeper Meaning, Truth for Us Today? Jeremiah 29:8-14
God’s Plan For Us All: We Should Each Come to Know God, As God Knows, Us. 2 Peter 3:8-9
Let Us All Give Thanks To God For Our Foundation of Hope! Colossians 1:3-8
God’s Justice In Jesus: The Greatness of Grace Is Reflected in Our Salvation from Sin. Romans 3:21-26
A Ransom Paid in Full: Reflecting, Understanding, the Justice of God. Matthew 20:24-28
I Have a Testimony! Why Is the Approaching ‘Lamb of God’ So Significant to Me? John 1:29-34
Hosanna! It Is Our Palm Sunday! Is Our Jesus Our Center or Periphery of Life? John 12:12-19
Jesus’ Triumphal Entry! Our Great Expectations? What About A King Paraded on the back of a Donkey? Matthew 21:1-11
What is Redemption? Important Meaning for Christians from the Bible. Romans 8:18 (22-23)-25
Where the Hurt and Healing Collide, There is A Wounded Healer’s Heart. There is a Savior: Jesus! Isaiah 53:1-6
Jesus is Washing His Disciples Feet: Healing is in our Becoming a Servant. John 13:1-17
“O’ Come, All Ye Faithful, Joyful and Triumphant. O’ Come, Let us Adore Him. Him Who is the Christ, Our Lord!” Matthew 26:36-45
Will The Cross Open Wide Our Eyes Too? The Centurion’s Unexpected Confession: His Declaration Of Jesus’ Innocence. Luke 23:44-49
Come! Please Look For Yourselves! To Witness The Stone is Now Rolled Away, Testify Death Is Now Utterly Defeated! Luke 24:1-8
Are The Disciples Asking Themselves: How Can We Know and Can We Trust God Will Keep Us in His Perfect Peace? John 20:19-23, Isaiah 26:1-4
Will My God Ever Give Up On Me As I Have Given Up on Him? Luke 22:54-62
Remember The Root Command: We Are All Rooted in Christ, Unto Each Other: Abiding in Love into a Hurting World. Colossians 1:1-8, John 15:15-17
Affirming Other’s Doubts, Receiving, Answering the Hard Questions About Our Lord’s Resurrection, Are All Very Necessary Steps Forward Towards Guiding Others unto Belief in Jesus. John 20:24-29
When We Feel Stuck, When We Are Not At All Convinced We Can Still Make a Difference With Our Life. John 21:15-19
God’s Gift of Grace For Every Failure. John 21:15-19
Becoming More Like Christ; Comfort and Encourage: God Shows Through Our Experiences. 2 Corinthians 1:3-7
What Can Make Us All Whole Again? Only The Purifying Life Blood of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 1 John 1:7
Truly Living For Jesus: What It Means that “Your Life Is Hidden with Christ.” Colossians 3:3-4
When and If Someone Should Ask You: “Okay, Why Should I or Anyone Believe in The Resurrection of Jesus Christ?” 1 Corinthians 15:12-19
Communicating More Like Christ. Building Up the Kingdom of God. Ephesians 4:29-32
Are We Really Seeking To Be More Like Our Jesus? What About Seeking After, About Loving, Our Unsaved Friends? 2 Corinthians 5:16-21
Valuing Self, Others, More Like Jesus: Are We Recognizing The Truest Value We All Have To the Kingdom of God? Mark 6:7-13
Living the Risen Life: Sharing God, Caring For Our Neighbors, Because God’s Heart Does Not Stop With Us. Colossians 3:1-4
Do We Have Any Earthly Idea How to Be Satisfied in God? Psalm 119:57-64
The Single Minded Pursuit of Unholy Discontentment, and Dissatisfaction. Pursuit of Emptiness Without Christ. Ecclesiastes 2:1-11, 24-26.
How Can I Be Faithful When I am Struggling With Discontentment? Ecclesiastes 2:20-25
What Does it Mean for those who are Unsaved, Us as Christians that God Is Available and that God is Accessible? Psalm 90
For God’s sake, and their own, why is it such a great idea for everyone to keep on thinking deeply about their faith? 2 Timothy 2:1-7
A Lesson about Wholly Refreshing Our Priorities: What is the significance to us to make, take time, with the Holy One? Mark 1:35-39
While We Are All Walking By Faith and Not By Sight, Are We Pondering any Prayers for Our Blindly Leaning, into Our Never to be Seen God’s Equipping? 2 Corinthians 5:7
For God’s Sake, Let Us Speak! Testify! Witness! Let us Be Holy! For the Lord Our God is Holy. Leviticus 19:1-4
Holy God, Do We Truly Know What it Means to Be Holy as Our God is Holy? 1 Peter 1:13-21
Seeking and Finding the Disconnect in Our Connection with the Lord Our God. Matthew 6:31-34
Can We Give Any Timely Answer: What About the Kingdom of God? Mark 1:14-15
Today’s Legitimate Dose of Life’s Reality: When God is Excluded from our Life, All Our Things Are Vanity. Ecclesiastes 1:1-11
Where Can We Find Hope if ‘All Is Vanity’ According to Ecclesiastes? Ecclesiastes 1:1-11
Finding the Courage to Be Different. John 15:18-19
Abundantly Prayerfully Exceeding Your Expectations: Expecting Infinitely More From God. Ephesians 3:20-21
Simply Learning How to Live! Simply Learning How to Serve Others with Love. Romans 12:10-13
A Lifestyle of Urgency. Acts 20:22-24
Authentic, Transparent Christian Living and Ministry. Acts 20:18-27
Wisdom of the Wiser: What God Chooses to Accomplish His Will. 1 Corinthians 1:26-31
The Gift of Godly Friends. Acts 27:1-8
What Might Jesus “Make” of Our “Mother’s Day?” Mark 3:31-35
Do We Really ‘Feel’ What This Means Anymore: “We Love Because He First Loved Us?” 1 John 4:17-21
Today’s Choice: We Can All Fully Give Up, Or We Can All Fully Rely on God Who is Supposed to be Number One. 2 Corinthians 1:8-11
If Hope Does Not Disappoint Us, Why Then Are Christians Disappointed All the Time? Romans 5:3-5
Where Exactly Is Our Hope Placed? Temporary Centrality of Our Hope Only In Ourselves. Proverbs 11:4-8
Soaking Ourselves in Envy or in God: Worship Perspective of God’s People. Proverbs 23:15-19
How Can We Have an Eternal Mindset Here on Earth? 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
“Come Holy Spirit, and Gift Unto Us a Prayer to Live With Eternity in Mind” Ecclesiastes 3:9-13
The One Test Proving We Love God. John 14:15-24
God’s Ageless Grace Brings Purpose. 2 Timothy 1:8-12
God’s Dress Code: Tattered Rags to His Righteousness Zechariah 3:1-5
Sin Tattered Rags to Righteousness: Praying For Our Unsaved Loved Ones. Colossians 3:12-14
Homeless Rags to His Righteousness: Our Prideful Responses to the Gospel. 1 Corinthians 1:26-31
Staying Faithful Unto the Gospel in a World Which Has Long Lost Its Way. Isaiah 5:18-24
Did The Holy Spirit Empower Only 12 Disciples On The Day Of Pentecost? Acts 2:1-13
Why (and How) Should We Pray the Names of Our God? Psalm 46:10-11
When Jesus Points and Commands; “Get into the Boat!” and Guides Us Straight Into and Through a Storm. Mark 4:35-41
Is God Worthy of All Our Devotion? Isaiah 6:1-8
God Will Keep You In Perfect Peace Those Whose Minds are Steadfast. Isaiah 26:1-4.
Are We So Confident in God that We Will Sing the Goodness of God in An Exuberant Earth, in Our Lifetimes? Psalm 27:13-14
Pondering: “In The Beginning God Created the Heavens and the Earth.” Genesis 1:1-2
Out Of The Darkness: “God Said” Let There Be Light, Let There Be Day One. Genesis 1:3-5
“and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord,” Just Who Do We Say Jesus Is? John 1:1-5
When We Need a Friend. Growing in Our Friendship with the Holy Spirit. Genesis 14:13-16
Born of God: Our Believing, Receiving and Rejecting the Light. John 1:9-13
Being Anointed and Taught by the Holy Spirit of God. 1 John 2:20-21
With or Without God in the World? With or Without the Christ in the World? With or Without the Holy Spirit in the World Today? Psalm 49
Authentically, Genuinely, Faithfully, Following God and Graduating Into Our God’s Life Long Desires for Us. Proverbs 19:20-21
“God, How May I Know What Your Will For My Life Is?” John 7:16-19
To Whom Shall We Go? John 6:60-69
How Can We Use All Our Creative Talents to Thank and Glorify God? Psalm 116:12-19
How Well Are We Dealing With Indwelling Sin? Romans 7:14-16
The “I” Problem. Romans 7:14-25
What a Long-Suffering and Gracious and Restorative God we Each Pray To. Hosea 6:1-3
Our Courage and Our Compassion to Do the Will Of Him Who Sent Us, To Actually Accomplish All of His Work. John 4:34-38
Best Fatherly Practices, Learning From His Examples: “Our Father, Who Art in Heaven, Will You Reveal Who You Are?” Matthew 6:7-13
Do You and I Truly Know The One Thing Satan Really Desires to Take from Us? Job 1:6-12
Do You or I Know the One Good Thing Which God Desires of The Shape of Our All Too Human Hearts? Psalm 78:65-72
Governor Pilate, The Gathering Mobs, Almighty God: Please Choose This Day What You Will Do Now With My Jesus! Luke 23:13-25
We Are Not Quitters Because We Are Always Guarded By the Power of God. Hebrews 10:26-31 (Verse 29)
Another Reminder About Things That Too Often Seem Too Good To Be True. (Genesis 3:1-6)
Pushed To, Into and Far Beyond Our Limits of Belief: Our Obedience unto God, Our Faith and Our Trust In God. Genesis 22:1-14
When We Do Withhold Nothing From God, What Does God Give Back To Us? Genesis 22:12-18
God Will Make A Way When There Seems To Be No Way Though Your Dreams are Shattered and Your Faith Is Being Shaken Down to its Very Roots. Matthew 11:2-3
Beautiful Lessons in Love from Song of Solomon. Song of Solomon 1:1-4
Personal Evangelism. “Father Abraham said Unto His Most Trusted Servant, By God, Go Forth and Take a Bride For My Son.” Genesis 24:1-9
Personal Evangelism: Are We Praying For Our Greatest Expectations of God to be Successfully Met? Genesis 24:10-14
About Abraham’s Legacy of Faith and Obedience: Do We Have Even .01% of What It Takes Today? Genesis 25:7-11
Your Daily Prayer: A Prayer to help us Refocus Our Thoughts back onto God. Philippians 4:8-9
Does God Care About My Feelings? Psalm 137
Do Not Apologize for Existing! Let Us Have A Conversation About Suicide! Psalm 13
Standing Around the Lords BBQ Grill, Sitting at the Feast Table of the Lord: Celebrating and Seeking God through the Holy Scriptures. Matthew 4:1-4
“Rather he delights himself in the teachings of the Lord and reflects on His teachings day and night.” Psalm 1
A Prayer for Strength to Defend the Faith – Your Daily Prayer. Jude 1:3-4
Authentic Christian Friends Are…? Proverbs 17:17
Some Subtle Biblical Suggestions for the Cultivation of True Friendships. Proverbs 18:24
If We Are The Body of Christ, The Church: And Seeking God Through Our Community? Hebrews 10:19-25
The Cure For Our Troubled Hearts. John 14:1-4
How Can We “Sit With the Sinners,” Model the Love of Jesus by Showing Mercy and Showing Compassion? Matthew 9:10-13
Our Friendship With the Holy Spirit. Psalm 25:14
By the Word of God: Renewing Our Hearts of Worship. Nehemiah 8:5-6
Be Still My Soul, Be Still My Heart! Truly Be Still and Truly Trust God. Psalm 46:10-11
The Hopeful, Hope-Filled Truth of the Timeless Verse “For Everything There Is a Season.” Ecclesiastes 3:1
Where do we run, who do we turn to, when our own thoughts go negative? 1 Samuel 27:1
Envision: The Path Toward Rejoicing. Philippians 4:4
What Does Your Righteousness Look Like Out in Public? Matthew 5:17-20
Hardest Things to Do as a Christian? John 17:13-19
The Power of Our Proper Thinking. Philippians 4:4-9
Growing, Maturing, to Look More Like Jesus – (2 Corinthians 3:15-18)
What Does It Mean That We Are All “Image Bearers”? Genesis 1:26-27
A Witness to the Faith. A Testimony, Theology for Our Life. Acts 26:25-29
No Condemnation in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1
Loving Our Neighbors. Living Life: the Revealed Irresistible Inescapable Light of Christ. Matthew 5:14-16
Are We Too Accustomed to Loving, Living, the Darkness? John 3:19-21
My Light, My Strength, My Defense, The Song of My Life. Isaiah 12:1-6
Heart of a Servant: About Exposing the Sin of Our Partiality. James 2:8-9
The Truest Hope of Resurrection Life. 1 Corinthians 15:45-49
We Don’t Quit, We Don’t Lose Heart Because of the Life Of Jesus In Our Mortal Bodies. 2 Corinthians 4:7-15
What Makes Us Forget Our Home, Our Life With God, Our Living Like Savior Christ? Deuteronomy 8:11-16
How Does Jesus Encounter Us in Our Everyday Lives? 1 Kings 19:11-13
The Spiritual Lessons From Elijah: Drawing Closer To God. 1 Kings 17
A Daily Prayer for All Us Pretenders. Romans 12:9-10
A True Servants Heart: Removing our Façade; How to be Rich, be Respected, How to be Genuinely and Truly Alive. Proverbs 22:4
Why Are Christians Told Not to Look Down on the Young? 1 Timothy 4:12
What Does the Bible Verse ‘Order My Steps’ Mean? Psalm 119:133 (129-136)
The Awe Inspiring Power of Everyone Doing Something Small. John 6:1-14
Can Faith Really Move Mountains? Mark 11:22-25
Ready to Respond, Holding, Standing Firm in the Faith. 1 Corinthians 16:13
Lovingly on Guard: Embracing God’s Spirit of Power, Love, Self Discipline. 1 Corinthians 16:13-14
Our Servants Heart: Let all that we do be done in His Love. 1 Corinthians 16:14
Drawing Near to God, Drawing Near to Each Other: Christian Community is so Critically Important Even Today. Hebrews 10:19-25
Desperate for Community: Building Lasting Bridges to God’s Kingdom. Matthew 25:31-46
Hearth and Home and Churches and Community: the Gathering Places For Everyone Under Heaven. John 14:1-6
In Community With God: God’s Heart for meeting with His children- David. Psalm 16
In Community With God: God’s Heart for His Meeting with all His Children: Gideon. Judges 6:11-18
Face to Face and Friend to Friend and Neighbor to Neighbor: God’s Heart to Meet with Moses. Exodus 33:7-13
This Needs to be Revealed: it’s God’s Heart to Meet with His Children: the Woman Caught in Adultery. John 8:7
He’s Reaching Out and Touching His Children: God’s Heart to Meet with John on Patmos. Revelation 1:17-19
Jacob’s embarrassing unawareness of the Lord’s Presence in his Place? Genesis 28:16-17
“Behold, Thou Desirest Truth in the Inward Parts” Lies Sin Keeps Telling Us. Psalm 51:1-11
Church Want Ad: Currently Seeking Kingdom Leadership; God is Seeking Role Models of Christian Maturity. Titus 2:1-15
“You and Me, God and Jesus!” What Does Real Spiritual Leadership in our Marriage Look Like? Genesis 2:18-25
Helping our Spouses through their Seasons of Stress. Ephesians 5:21-33
“In Sickness and In Health” Our God is our Only Strength in Our Marriage. 2 Corinthians 12:7-10
“‘Till Death Do Us Part.” What If We Were to Ask Our Spouses Where Our Marriages Were Exactly Right Now? 1 Corinthians 7:1-7
My God, My Spouse and Me: All He Asks of us is this: “Love, Honor and Cherish” 1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Simply Pursuing God’s Heart: Love-based Simplicity. Colossians 3:12-14
Standing Before our Enemies, Being Kingdom Changers: Our Help Comes from God the Lord. 1 Samuel 17:32-37
“King Saul, I Simply Have No Need for Your Armor!” 1 Samuel 17:38-39
It’s the Voices of Truth, Too Good to Not Believe: It’s GOD! It’s Jesus! Only Voices Under Heaven Which Matter. 1Samuel 17:42-47
He is Yahweh Sabaoth: “The Lord of Hosts Our God who Goes Before Us!”1 Samuel 17:45-50
Today, Be Encouraged That the Lord Is “Not Slow to Fulfill His Promise.” 2Peter 3:8-9
The Success of Failure: Confidence through Suffering. Hebrews 10:32-39
Our Great Commission “All authority in Heaven and on Earth has now been given to Me. Therefore, Go forth and Make Disciples of All the Nations!” Matthew 28:16-20
Do We or Do We Not Hear, Have It On God’s Good Authority? Mark 1:21-28
Why Jesus said there is only One Way for us to Get to Heaven? John 14:5-6
“I Am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life” – What Jesus Really Meant. John 14:1-7
Do We Make the Most of Our Time? Ephesians 5:15-16
Our True Completeness is in Jesus: In the Time We Each Spend in Creating and Having Relationship, not Stuck in Religious Rituals. Colossians 2:20
In Christ Alone, Signs of Our Times: Getting that Real Grip on Faith and on Righteousness. Romans 4:9 – 12
Jehovah My God, Restore Unto Me the Joy of thy Salvation, Uphold a Willing Spirit Within Me. Psalm 51:10-12
A Real Heart Scratcher: Why Do We Believe In and Follow Jesus Christ? John 7:37-39
Only His Truth Delivers! Only His Truth Protects! Only His Truth Will Be Declared! Only By God’s Truth Are We Each Being Transformed! Psalm 3
Just to Remember the Works of God, to Remember God as God Remembers Each of His Children! Psalm 77:11-13
There is Only One Truly Faithful God. Psalm 36:5
The Devil Defanged. 1 John 3:7-8
“Blessed Be the Lord, My Rock, Who Preserves and Prospers His People, and Who Trains My Hands for War, My Fingers for Battle!” Psalm 144:1
God Longs for Us to Know His Voice. Jeremiah 33:1-3
From the Very Beginning, It Was Our Always Knowing About God’s Loving, and Creative Presence. Genesis 1:1-5
The Heights and the Depths of the Presence of God. Genesis 1:20-23
God’s Creation is Bringing Us God’s Covenant Message of Life and Peace. Genesis 8:11
Our Submission unto God’s Covenant Promises: Ready-Set-Go, or Debate? Genesis 15:9-10
“I’m Springing Forward and Falling Back.” A Prayer to Help Me Evaluate, and to Reset My Priorities- Psalm 90
A Prayer to Living with Intention, to Live With Vulnerability, to Approach The Throne of God with Confidence. Hebrews 4:14-16
Jesus’ One True Great Compassion: Hearing, And Approaching, Living Among, Feeding and Caring About The Vulnerable. Matthew 14:13-21
As An Eagle Stirs Up Its Nest, Hovers Over its Young, Spreads Out its Wings Caring for its Young – God Cares too! Deuteronomy 32:1-14 (verses 10-14)
Being Fed and Nourished in the Most Unlikely Way. God is Always Going to Be Alongside of the Brokenhearted. 1Kings 17:1-6
As God Ordained it, As God Willed It: To Go Far Out of Our Ways to Reciting the ABC’s of the Gospel. John 6:35-38
Walking All Those Dead-End Streets, Trusting in God Through Every Fresh Start and Restarts. Ecclesiastes 2:1-3
The God Who Commands, Sends Us, To Rebuild The Walls. Nehemiah 4:6
Relating to God: That Thanksgiving Factor and Today’s Christian Effort. Psalm 50:22-23
“Someone get me out of here on dove wings; I want some peace and quiet.” Psalm 55:1-8
Joy In Christian Community: Being Thankful for People! Philippians 1:3
A View Under His Wings The Ultimate Father-Son Relationship. Psalm 91:4
Giving Our Thanks: Appreciating our View of God’s Creation. Psalm 104:24
Thanks Be To God, We May Be Lonely But We Are Never Alone! Psalm 27:10
All Thanks be to God for the Poor in Spirit Living Among us. Matthew 5:3
Thanks be to God for the Open Door into Eternal Salvation and Outwards to Kingdom Service. Revelation 3:7-8
Giving Our Thanks to God: How Can We Model the Love of Christ through Being Considerate? Philippians 2:1-4
All My Gratitude to God for His Gift of the Ungrateful Among Us. Luke 6:35
Give Thanks to God for His Gift of Grace which Transforms our Lives. Titus 2:11-14
Thanks To God We Will Always Have a Reason to Be Thankful! Psalm 28:7
Thanks Be To God – We Can Always Trust Him With Our Souls! Psalm 146
All Thanks to God for the Privilege of Allowing Me to Get to Know Even 1% of Him Through His Son Jesus Christ! Psalm 46
The Miracle Moment: The Experience of His Love Poured Out Within Us All. Romans 5:3-5
Advent: Are Any of Us Ready for The Coming, the Miraculous Experience of Truly Hearing His Words, of Truly Hearing His Coming Voice. John 8:47
The Coming Advent: To Know God is to Experience His Fullness of Peace. 2Thessalonians 3:16
The Coming Advent: Now is the Best Time to be Favoring All His Promises. 2 Corinthians 6:1-10
What Do We Believe of the Purpose of Savior Christ’s Advent? 1 John 3:4-6
An Advent Reflection: “On Them, the Great Light has Shone.” Isaiah 9:2-7
An Advent Reflection: Unto Us A Child is Born, and Unto us His Son is Given! And What Would He be Called Today? Isaiah 9:2-7
This Advent Reflection: About Being That Person With a Prophetic Vision of Our God In and Within Our Lives. Proverbs 29:18
Advent Reflection: “Behold! God Sends His Messenger! Prepare Ye, Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord!” Mark 1:1-8
Advent Prophet: if John the Baptist Called Out into the Gathered Crowds? Luke 3:1-14
Advent Reflection: How Sure Are We That We Would Listen to the Message of Our John the Baptist? Matthew 3:1
Advent Reflection: To Make Room, to Truly Put Jesus First this Christmas. Luke 2:6-7
Advent Devotional: God Made Room for Shepherds! God made Room for Prayers of Unspeakable Joy. Luke 2:10
Advent Reflection: Tis the Season for Us To Cling Tightly to What is Good. Romans 12:9-13
Advent Reflection: “Listen to What I Say; Praying for Peace Everywhere!” But Can We Each Really Pray Without Ceasing? 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
Advent Reflection: “For Unto Us An Answer is Provided For Our Suffering World.” Isaiah 9:6-7
Advent Reflection: In our God’s Gym, What is that Point for Our Suffering? Hebrews 12:4-11
Advent Reflection: A Mighty God And Hardships, Peace of God in the Chaos. John 16:31-33
Advent Reflection: As We Watch and We Wait as We Anticipate and Expect, What Exactly Are We Doing Anyway? James 3:13-18
Advent Reflection Does Mary Saying ‘Treasuring All These Things in Her Heart’ Speak to Anything About How We Reveal Christ Today? Luke 2:19
Advent Reflection: While We Wait For Him, Do We Know How To Say Why It’s Important To Draw Near To Him? James 4:7-10
Advent Reflection: Our Bringing The Gift of The Greatness of Our God Unto Others This Christmas. Luke 1:26-28
Advent Reflection: Whether its Read at Advent, At Christmas, and Always, God’s Word Never Fails! Luke 1:37
Advent Testimony: The Wonder and the Mystery of One Single Birthday. Luke 1:29-35
Advent Reflection: The Wonder of All Wonders, Miracle of All Miracles, the One True Mystery of All Mysteries! ! Luke 1:29-35
Advent Reflection: Something Truly Wonderful Happens When Your Heart Grows Three Sizes! Ezekiel 36:24-28
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May the Lord prepare us to receive something new this year to improve our lives. Make Us Ready to Receive! Deuteronomy 1:1-8
Every Christians #1 First New Year’s Resolution? Seeking God’s direction or Without Seeking God’s Direction? Proverbs 3:5-8
Sometimes the Wait For My Change to be Realized, Feels Like an Eternity of my Bearing the Unbearable Burden Psalm 119: 153-160.
He Carried Us All the Way! This is My Prayer, My Plea, for us to Renew Our Max Trust in God in the coming Year. Deuteronomy 1:29-31
Therefore, let us be committed, let us be .1% more resolved, to give heed to these ancient Words from the Lord: “Do not be afraid of them; the Lord your God himself will fight for you.” Deuteronomy 3:21-28
“Will somebody please teach us how to Pray? Teach us ways we can build up our Prayer Lives?” Luke 11:1-13
Our Communion with God. “I cannot even imagine how a religious person can live satisfied without the practice of the presence of GOD.” John 15:4-5
Sometimes we just need to stop right where are and reflect upon Memories of God’s Goodness. Deuteronomy 4:9
I realize this a ridiculous question but I must ask; do any of us truly realize, scripturally, what are the differences Between Anything and Everything?
Trauma Unknowable; Living in and Passing through, Surviving, Grieving though the Devastation, Destruction, of the Raging Fires. Ceaseless Prayer. Psalm 91:14-16.
Breaking the hard dry sun baked soil; A Prayer When You Need to Welcome a most difficult and irritating Person. Mark 9:36-37
watch out for those who would cause divisions, create needless obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; turn away, avoid them. Romans 16:17-18
God’s Judgment Unleashed? Saying believing, or Preaching regarding the “long awaited, much needed” Arrival of God’s Judgment Upon California. Exodus 7:1-5
Glorifying the Works of our limitless God and Embracing Our Limitations. Ecclesiastes 8:16-17
Whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction which is why the Old Testament yet matters. Romans 15:3-6
Anyone else feel like the only thing certain in this world is the certain uncertainty of our being changed? Isaiah 46:8-11
His Incorruptible Counsel and His Comfort. “I bless the Lord who gives me counsel; and in the night also my heart instructs me.” Psalm 16:7-8
The Lord our God wants all of us to respect Him and do what He says. He wants you to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Deuteronomy 10:12
A Gospel being Perverted; “There is no other message that is the Good News, but some people are confusing you. They want to alter, to change, the Good News about Jesus Christ.” Galatians 1:6 – 12
See the Beauty of God; For as long as our Earth lasts, planting and harvest, cold and heat, Summer and Winter, His days and nights will never stop.” Genesis 8:20-22
May Adonai make his face shine on you and show you his favor and May Adonai lift up his face toward you and give you peace. Numbers 6:22-27
Set Free! Free Indeed! Christian Liberty; Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Jesus Christ has made us free, do not be entangled yet again with a yoke of hard bondage. Galatians 5:1-6
Eyeing those ages long trails of God’s true Faithfulness: a time of Prayer to ponder, remembering the days of old; consider those generations long past. Deuteronomy 32:1-8
Thankful, Prayerful, Joyful, for you have been my partners in spreading the Good News about Christ from the time you had first heard it until now. Philippians 1:3-6
Go ahead, I dare You! Try to Convince Me God really identifies with us about what it feels like to faithfully live into this experience: bury His own child? Job 1:13-22
I have always pondered why Jesus wept. “When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was sorely troubled.” John 11:32-37
A Meditation: Lord regretted that He had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. Genesis 6:5-8
The Great Multitudes. The Great Promise of Completion. When our God begins a work, He completes it. Revelation 7:9-17
In bondage to, In confirmation of, In defense of, God’s Gospel of Salvation. Philippians 1:7-8
An Expression of Love: “And it is my fervent prayer your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and discernment, leading unto holiness.” Philippians 1:7-11
Like Father, Like Children? if all you hard-hearted, sinful men know how to give good gifts to your children. Matthew 7:7-11
It’s just the same with our tongues! It’s a small muscle, capable of such marvelous and Fiery undertakings. James 3:3-6
Compelled by a Life of Urgency: so I may finish my task with Joy and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus Christ, to testify unto the Good News of God’s grace. Acts 20:24
Samson: Blinded and Chained and Imprisoned, Vulnerable, Enamored, Entangled and Ensnared by Pillars of his Material Desires. Judges 16:25-30
Hindsight, Insight, Foresight: The Importance of our acknowledging HIS story as being everyone’s story. Deuteronomy 4:7-10
Someone is bound to ask you: Just what is so “good” about The Good News? Titus 2:11-14
‘It feels like it has been an Eternity!’ Praying to better Trust God’s Timing during our LONG seasons of waiting. Ecclesiastes 3:11-13
Happy and Blessed Valentines Day! Friends will love through all kinds of weather, and families stick together in all kinds of trouble. Proverbs 17:17
Lord, Prepare me, Search me, O’ God. Know my Heart, Just please test me, know my thoughts, unleash from me the boldness that I deliberately keep locked within me! Philippians 1:12-18
So don’t be overly righteous or overly wise; why should anyone try so hard to constantly disappoint themselves? Ecclesiastes 7:16
Breaking Bridges, Building Barriers; Envy, Mixed Up Motives, proclaiming Christ from those selfish ambitions. Philippians 1:15–18
Searched, Transformed By Truth: For is anything worth more than our own souls? Am I ashamed of the Gospel? Mark 8:34-38
I have already taken refuge straight to the arms of God. Why would I run away when you shout, run into hills, hide in caves, hike to the mountains? Psalm 11
Is the Church Itself an Impassable Barrier? “Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge.” Luke 11:52-54
Managing Chronic Grief: For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, my bones wasting away. Psalm 31:9-10
You shall have no other gods before Me But the hearts of men and women aren’t so easily instructed nowadays. Exodus 20:1–3
You are not to make any idol or image of other gods. In fact, you are never to make an image of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath. Exodus 20:4
God’s name should be treated with highest reverence and not used in a casual or foolish, disrespectful way. Exodus 20:7
His Hardest Covenant: to Remember that Sabbath (seventh) day to keep it holy and set apart, dedicated to God. Exodus 20:8-11
Fools are headstrong and do what they like; wise people take advice. Proverbs 12:15
The Righteous Cure for our Chronic unrighteousness Comes Through a Balance of Discipline and Humility. Proverbs 22:1-5
Ash Wednesday 2025: Guard Yourself against Temptation. Matthew 4:1 – 11
The Core Truth of the Matter forever Remains True: The reality is that God thoroughly Hates All Our Deception! exodus 20:16
Covetousness —our far over the top desire to possess for ourselves what God has chosen to give to another, or Humble Contentment Exodus 20:17
One Seldom Acknowledged Pitfall of Lent: Man Supposes, Man Proposes, but God alone, Ultimately Disposes. Proverbs 19:21
“Failure is never the opposite of ‘success’; it is a crucial part of it.” Proverbs 24:15-16
When peace, like a river, attendeth my way, normalizing Our Emotions; sit still, stand still quit our Hurrying! Psalm 34:14-18
Feeling far Short on Strength and Sufficiency. Nothing but Vapors in our Mind, our Soul and our Spirit. Exodus 15:1-8
Redemptive Reflection: Take time to be holy, speak often with thy Lord; abide in Him always, and feed on His Word. Psalm 139:23-24
Teamwork Triumph! There is such strength and a sense of community in working together with God toward a common goal. Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
Where is our Total Satisfaction with nothing but a young boy’s five loaves of bread and two fish? Mark 6:41-42
Listening, Learning about Living in, with, the Family of Faith Hospitably. Hebrews 13:1-8
The Freedom of His Rule, Our witness to His truth, The Forever Freedom of His Way, and His Truth, and His Life. John 18:33-38
May God who gives us each patience, steadiness, and encouragement help us to live in complete harmony with each other—each with the attitude of Christ toward the other. Romans 15:6
Death Is but a Doorway? It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. Ecclesiastes 7:2
A Temple With Surest Foundations: God hasn’t moved, hidden Himself from us into the mountains; His holy address has never changed. Psalm 11
A New Kind of Peace is now standing in our Midst: Jesus came and stood in their midst, and said to them, “let My Peace be with you.” John 20:19-21
Any Significance to even minimally keeping God’s Covenant of Sabbath Rest? Does Sabbath mean anything? exodus 20:8-10
God is gracious—it is He who makes things right, our most merciful and compassionate God. God takes the side of the helpless; when at the end of my rope, Yes! He saved even me! Psalm 116
For that person must never suppose that they will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, doubting all, unstable, in all his ways. James 1:5-8
For Levi 100% Change is inevitable, For Matthew, Resistance to change was inevitably, virtually nonexistent. Luke 5:27-39
Through the Crowds, then Digging through the rooftops. Our Paralyzed and broken selves are being lowered down into the presence of our Healer. Luke 5:17-26
“To be Blinded by His eternal Light” A Prayer to Find Light When You Feel Completely Surrounded by Darkness. John 1:1-5
Standing at the Border or Trekking through Samaria: Some Fresh Ways to Spread the Gospel. John 4:39-42
Divine Vandalism: And the moment arrived and the Sun stopped shining, and then suddenly the curtain of His temple was shredded into two halves. Luke 23:44-46
He Breathed His Last: Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” having said this he breathed his last. Luke 23:46
The Cross Opens Our Eyes: When the Centurion saw what had just taken place, he looked, praised God, saying, “Certainly this man was innocent!” Luke 23:47
Capable or Incapable of Walking Out of the dark Shadows of our Disbelief? Luke 23:50-54
Ancient expectations, Contemporary expectations: Why do you and I seek the living among the dead? He is not in the grave anymore, but has risen! Luke 24:4-8
Brothers and Sisters, Guess What? You are not now and never have been, never will be, a Mistake or Accident. Psalm 139:13-16
A God-Given Burden: “yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the very beginning to the end.” Ecclesiastes 3:9-13
It’s God’s power in times of real Pain: “We were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself.” 2 Corinthians 1:8–10
Treasures from Darkness: “Cyrus, I will give you all the treasures of the darkness, all the hoarded treasures and all of the hidden riches of secret places, that you may know I am God.” Isaiah 45:3
When we are not even close to being capable trust God is exceedingly able. Ephesians 3:20-21
Why Does the Resurrection Continue to Matter two thousand years Later? Mark 16:1-7
Joyful Rest in a Frantic World: ‘I will both lie down in peace and sleep, for though I am alone, O’ Lord, you will truly keep me safe.’ Psalm 4:7-8
Thinking Deeply for God’s Sake! ‘Do Consider what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in all things.’ 2 Timothy 2:1-7
Raised by God to Be His Holy Temple! God is going to raise our bodies from the dead by his power just as He had first raised up the Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 6:12-20.
The Gospel of Christ’s Resurrection: For I had passed on to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to that which the Scriptures foretold. 1 Corinthians 15:1-11
The Necessity of Resurrection: And if Christ hasn’t been raised, our faith is worthless; we are all still in our sins. 1 Corinthians 15:12-19
Changed by Resurrection; Behold, I will tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. 1 Corinthians 15:50-58
Despite my 999%’Awkward, Chaotic, Life-Defeating Limiting worldview’ I yet choose to Walk, March, Marathon forward, into the Category 5 winds of the Will of God. 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
Why would I, should I, can I in 2025, believe God Will Make a Way for me Because the bible says He is the Way? John 14:5-7
Invaluable, Immeasurable, Inevitable Indescribable, Infinite Intense Grace. Ephesians 2:4-7
Bringing Our Small Limitations unto Jesus; ‘But why, you may ask, must I be guided and limited by only what someone else may think or Believes?’ 1 Corinthians 10:26-33
In Time’s Like This, Can Anyone Still Find the Place, Time, to Practice Self-Compassion When Facing Setbacks? Psalm 103:8
New Life, New Lifestyle; ‘Therefore let everyone be grateful for receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken.’ Hebrews 12:28-29
Our Only Acceptable Boast; ‘but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in all the earth.’ Jeremiah 9:23–24
We Have a Shepherd. We also have a Compassionate Teacher; ‘When Jesus arrived, saw this huge crowd. At the sight of them, his heart broke—like sheep with no shepherd they were. He went right to work teaching them.’ Mark 6:32-34
A Mark of True Godliness; ‘God has had it with the proud, But God takes Greatest delight in just plain people. 1 Peter 5:1-7
I Am an Inviter; ‘The master told his servant, “Go out unto the roads and country lanes, compel them to enter inside, so that my house will be full.” Luke 14:16-24
Bound to the Book; ‘The revelation of God is whole and pulls our lives together. The signposts of God are clear and point out the right road.’ Psalm 19:7
I Am a Student; ‘Be a good workman, one who does not need to be ashamed when God examines your work. Know what his Word says and truly means.’ 2 Timothy 2:14-18
I am forever finding my Identity; as a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated, summoned, to the gospel of God. Romans 1:1-6
Christ at Creation; Realizing Christ Holds It All Together. Colossians 1:16
Why Should I Believe The Bible? ‘In addition, we have the most reliable prophetic word, and we would all do very well to pay close attention to it.’ 2 Peter 1:19-21
I Am a Steward; “It’s also like a man going off on an extended trip. He has called his servants together and has delegated responsibilities to them.” Matthew 25:14-18
One Grand Story! ‘The Lord will be king over all the earth. On that day the Lord will be one and His name one.’ Zechariah 14:1-9
How can I get right with God? ‘There is no difference at all between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned, fall infinitely short of the glory of God.’ Romans 3:21–24
I Am A Seed-Planter; “The Kingdom of God is like a farmer who scatters his seed on the ground.” Mark 4:26
I Am more than a Conqueror; ‘But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.’ Romans 8:31-39
I Have a New Identity in Christ; ‘The thief comes only so that he can steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and have it abundantly.’ John 10:6-10
Today’s Reminder is to please let the peace of God reign inside your hearts. Colossians 3:15–17
Who is My Family? These are my mother and brothers. Obedience is thicker than blood. The person who obeys my heavenly Father’s will are my brother, my sister, and mother. Matthew 12:46-50
Gliding effortlessly, high into the Sky Majestically Soaring, Standing, with God, strong, free on Wings of Eagles. Isaiah 40:27-31
The Camel’s Challenge? “Do you have any idea how difficult it is for the rich to enter God’s kingdom? Its far easier to gallop a camel through a needle’s eye for rich to enter God’s kingdom.” Matthew 19:23-24
How Does God Use Flowers to Teach Us about Himself? ‘Walk out into the fields, look at the wildflowers. They don’t fuss with their appearance—but have you ever seen such color and design quite like it?’ Luke 12:25-28
And David said unto Saul, “May no one’s heart fail on account of him; your servant will go and fight this Philistine!” 1 Samuel 17:31-33
With One Heart, One Mind, One Voice Our Praying, Our Speaking the Word of God with Real and True Boldness. Acts 4:23-31
Why it is good for us to be reminded what happens when we take the Bible Out of Context? 2 Timothy 2:14-18
Has anyone devoted any serious time to pray through this thought? Living and loving without God in the World? Psalm 49
even after this enormous passage of time and sinning, do we, can we, yet comprehend why does God Provide? Genesis 22:1-14
From you O’ Lord, let my vindication come; let your eyes see what is right. Trusting God when we face Injustice. Psalm 17
The Greatest Transfer of Trust; “Put your entire trust in the Master Jesus. Then you will live as you were meant to live—and everyone in your house included!” Acts 16:25-31
What would it look like for the Holy Spirit to be at work in the ministry of a particular congregation? Acts 17:11
Helping Your Children’s Faith Grow this Summer; “I have treasured Your Word in my heart, So that I may not sin against You.” Psalm 119:9-16
When do we survey the indescribable shame, total ugliness of the Cross? Hebrews 12:1-3
Herds of Panting Deer? Our Parched, Thirsty Souls? God’s Living Waters? Psalm 42
Lies Sin whispers into our ears. Lies Sin hammers deep into our very Soul. Lies Sin uses to crush our Spirit with. 1 John 1:6-10
Invest in Eternity; ‘Their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity.’ 2 Corinthians 8:1–4
The Lord always Has His Eye on You! For His eye is on the sparrow, And I know He watches me. Psalm 102:19
When your Heart Is blocked by doubt and your hands and feet are as much help as a millstone around our neck. Matthew 14:28-32
Youth Ministry; Fact or Fiction? God is, or God is not done with any of our old and gray hair yet? Psalm 71:17-24
Reacquainting ourselves with God! “Give in to God, come to terms with him and everything will turn out just fine. Let God alone tell you what to do; take His words into your heart. Job 22:21-25
Falling, Feeling, Short on Strength and Sufficiency; “The LORD is my strength, He is my defense; he has become my salvation.” Exodus 15
Called to be Saints: Through Him we received both the generous gift of His life and the urgent task of passing it on to others who receive it by their entering into obedient trust in Jesus. Romans 1:1-7
Do remember your Creator in your youth; before the Silver (Spinal) Cord is snapped; dust returns to the earth as it first was, and the Spirit returns to God who gave it. Ecclesiastes 12:1-8
So, the believers pray for a Continued Bold Witness. Our Prayer for far more Boldness to Stand for Biblical Values. Acts 4:23-31
Peace When You are Dealing with the weight and burden of Family Drama. Romans 12:14-19
“Put Me in Coach!” Peter said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death.” Luke 22:33
Are we in danger of forgetting God, forgetting all of which we have seen Him do for us? Deuteronomy 4:9-14
Devoting Ourselves unto, or Drifting away from, so Great a Salvation. Dare we to risk sloth, neglecting this latest message, this magnificent salvation? Hebrews 2:1-4
The Lord will never leave the guilty unpunished! His way, His Wrath is in the whirlwind and in the storm, and all the clouds are the dust of his feet. Nahum 1:1-6
Too earthly focused and no heavenly good. Too heavenly focused and not even one grain of sand earthly good. Philippians 3:12-21
Retrieving His Lost Sheep, Retrieving His Lost Sheep, Walking on the Road to Emmaus, retrieving His lost sheep. Luke 24:13-35
Scratching our heads on the Emmaus Road: Walking in Ignorance. Ponder that plight of the Blinded Lost Sheep. Luke 24:14-18
Aught we to be praying, pondering for ourselves, how slow, how foolish we are regarding our Understanding Why and What we believe? Luke 24:25
Sheep empowered for Mission! They didn’t waste a minute. They were up and on their way back to Jerusalem. Luke 24:33-35
One Half Hope-filled Sheep or One Half Gloom and Doom Filled Sheep? Does Your Cup of Faith, Hope, and Love Look Half Full or Half Empty? Luke 24:28-35
Growing together in Christ. Walking in Obedience, Learning how to walk in this world with obedience to our faith. Moving forward into the world we live in, Minister to. John 14:15-21
When You Don’t Have the Words to Pray, when life is kicking your butt, God invites us to fly to Him to Rest. Psalm 55
Transformed by this Truth? “every person is as Close to God as they all think they want to be.” James 4:8
We humans will keep brainstorming options and plans, but God’s purpose will always prevail. Proverbs 19:21
Dare we to be the only ones who are eavesdropping? Jesus is saying unto Simon, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be fishing for my people.” Luke 5:1-11
Genuine Service Selfless Servanthood Bending, Bowing, our Spirits to “He must increase, but I must decrease.” John 3:27-30
Serving our Sovereign God. Can we rightly discuss what ought to be the Christian’s relationship to authority? Isaiah 40:18-31
Lord, this is my prayer; there is not a single moment of my life for which I don’t have a need for your Direction. Psalm 119:73-80
The Words of Eternal Life. “Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom else should we go? You alone have the words of eternal life.” John 6:66-71
God Tames the Surging Sea: “God is ruler over the surging sea: When its waves rise up, God’s voice alone, who speaks to them, making them still.” Psalm 89:8-13
God Tames the Surging Sea: “God is ruler over the surging sea: When its waves rise up, God’s voice alone, who speaks to them, making them still.” Psalm 89:8-13
That Darkness is My Closest Friend. The Darkness is My Only Best Friend. The Only ‘Friend’ I have is Darkness. Psalm 88
So, God spoke: “Let us make human beings in our image, to make them reflect our nature…”Genesis 1:26-28
Praying or Despairing? When You Don’t Have Any Friends, when you have no acquaintances to keep you company, our life in our isolation. Matthew 11:16-19
Do Please enlighten Yourselves: How Do YOU Worship God Appropriately? Deuteronomy 8:11-18 (Verses 17-18)
My skilled living got its freshest start from my greater Fear-of-God insight into life knowing trusting Holy God. Proverbs 9:7-12
Engine of Repentance: Let us all take a good look at the way we are living, let us all reorder our lives under God. Lamentations 3:37-42
Beyond my comfort and convenience, have I truly decided to follow Jesus? Luke 9:57-62
How Jesus Viewed, Valued Women? A Girl is Restored to Life and a Woman is Healed from a discharge of blood for twelve years. Matthew 9:18-26
Jesus has just dared to heal a crippled woman on the Sabbath! Luke 13:10-17
Is this for real, that our King of All Creation actually set his own eternity aside, took on the status of a Slave? Philippians 2:1-4
Some days, if not most days, if not every moment of everyday, our very own thoughts are our all time single greatest worst enemy. 1 Samuel 27:1
Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily laden, overwhelmed by your own Expectations of yourself and I will surly relieve your burden. Matthew 11:28 – 30
Sacrifice, Work and Labor at getting along with each other and with God. Otherwise you’ll never get so much as a glimpse of God. Make sure that no one gets left out of God’s generosity. Psalm 15
May the Peace of God reign over your home. God’s people will surely live in peaceful dwelling places, in secured homes, in undisturbed places of rest. Isaiah 32:15-20
Life, Heart, Soul, Mind and Strength for truly Honoring and enjoying our Creator. Where is all of that Wonder Working Power of Youthful Worship? Ecclesiastes 12:1-8
Jesus did not pray that God should take any of us out of the world, but that God would guard, protect, and shield from the Evil One. John 17:15
Labor Day! There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and assure himself that there is good in his labor. Even this, I have seen, is from the hand of God. Ecclesiastes 2:24-26
‘Our Weary Savior!’ “and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, tired as He was from His journey, then sat down by the well. It was then about the sixth hour (noon).” John 4:4-6
How deeply rooted can we be in the soils of ‘Living like Christ’, are we to foolishly, realistically, believe we can get by with, “fake it till we make it?” Colossians 2:6-7
How deep is deeply Rooted in Christ? On the seventh day God was finished with his work which he had made, so he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. Genesis 2:1-3
O’ That Parable of the Great Banquet; Fasting or Feasting on the Gospel: We Have All Been “Invited” to the Party! Luke 14:15-24
Feasting or Snacking or Nibbling or on a Hunger Strike? Their delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law they meditate both day and at night. Psalm 1
The Parables of the Hidden Treasure and of the Priceless Pearl. How Much is the Kingdom of God worth digging, mining, for God’s hidden treasures?
What is so contentious about our Transforming our Everyday Faith? As you ponder, is it just me or is my faith really so broken? Psalm 71:17-24
All of Life is a Test. God is constantly watching how we respond to people, problems, success, conflict, illness, disappointment and even weather! Job 23:8-12
The Tested Faith of Ordinary People; Ordinary People-extraordinary God. God Is Not Dead! Hebrews 11:32-38
In the Firmness of Our Faith, When We are Tied up, Cast into the Hottest Furnaces, Standing Up in the Flames. Daniel 3:24-27
How, in what ways have we forgotten God in our worship? The When and What of Praising God. Psalm 96:1-3
Have we now transgressed that line in the sand singing solely to listen to ourselves singing our own praises to ourselves, not God, in our worship? Psalm 96:1-3
Fresh Air for Rusty Souls: entering into His Courtyard, place where God meets men and women clothed in His Wardrobe of Holiness. Psalm 96:7-9
A Long Term Investment! How we respond to God’s Word in this life will determine our life in the next. Luke 16:19-31
Fact or False: A Bible which is falling apart at the seams will usually belong to someone who is truly falling apart. Psalm 119:97-104
Our mutual goal is to bring out the best in others in a conversation, not put them down, not to cut them out. Colossians 4:2-6
Such is the Spoken Word of God: God always Reigns! Plants Restores and Revives us, when life is falling apart. Amos 3:11-15
Marvelous, infinite, matchless grace, Freely bestowed on all who believe! We who are longing to see His face, will we in this God moment His grace receive? 2 Thessalonians 3:16-18
Grant us thy Grace for Letting Go, of Casting Away, that Which We Cannot Control nor Change. 1 Peter 5:1-11
Who is like our God? The Creator of all we can see or we can ever imagine. Isaiah 40:12 – 20
Remember: A stingy planter gets a stingy crop; a lavish planter gets a lavish crop; a lazy planter gets Zilch. 2 Corinthians 9:6-11
Those who have wisdom let them be Wise. Get wisdom—it is worth much more than money; so choose wisely! Pray insight over income every time. Proverbs 16:16-21
I am Meditating about the Benefits of our Multi-generational churches! Titus 2:1–8
What if we could all see our whole selves only through God’s eyes? Can you or I contemplate how different we would act and feel? 1 Peter 2:9-10
Shall we rub our eyes—we can hardly bring ourselves to believe it! This is the very day which God acted—let us celebrate and be festive! Psalm 118:24
Fill your minds, meditate on things true, noble, reputable, and authentic, compelling, gracious—the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse. Philippians 4:8-9
When they had heard this they were enraged, were crying out, “Great is goddess Artemis of the Ephesians!” exposing our own unexpected Idols. Acts 19:23-31
Professor Rabbi Apostle Paul: “that people throughout the province of Asia – both Jews and Greeks – heard the word of the Lord.” Acts 19:8-10
Precious Pearls From Proverbs: The Blessings of a Calm, Tranquil Heart. Proverbs 14:29-30
Is There a Way He Always Wants Us to Live? Are We In This World for Good, Bad or Always Living Indifferently? 1 Thessalonians 5:12-18
Wisdom from the Apostle Paul unto Today’s 21st Century Church: There is a Strong Heartbeat inside Healthy Churches. 1 Thessalonians 5:12-22
Comfort, O’ Comfort My People, says your God as My loyal love cannot run out, My merciful love cannot dry up. They are created new every morning. Pray! How great is My faithfulness? Lamentations 3:22-24
God’s love is meteoric, his loyalty is astronomic, His purpose titanic, his verdicts oceanic. Yet in his largeness nothing gets lost; Not a man, not a mouse, a soul, ever slips through his righteous right hand. Psalm 36:5-6
The truth is that everyone who does become a citizen of Christ’s kingdom is caught up, snared, inside a cosmic conflict of high eternal significance. 1 John 3:7-10
Staying at our Post; Companions as we are in this work with you, we beg you, please don’t squander one bit of this marvelous life God has given us. 2 Corinthians 6:1-10
A Love that will always continue to keep growing maturing, flourishing because God will always be working on Me. Philippians 1:3-6
Have I learned to be content whatever the circumstances? Or am I too good at faking it, until I think I believe it? Philippians 4:10-14
Jesus is asking, Are we welcoming the quiet? “Come off by yourselves; lets take a break and get a little rest.” Mark 6:30-31
Heads up! The days are coming when I’ll set up a new plan for dealing with Israel and Judah. They failed to keep their part of the bargain, so I looked away and let it go. Hebrews 8:7-13
Glad Submission to God? For we are cheating on God. If all we want is our own way, dating and flirting with the world every chance we get, we end up enemies of God, his Truth, his Way. James 4:6-10
Write this to Ephesus, Christ Knows Your Works. “I see what you’ve done, your hard, hard work, your refusal to quit. “But you’ve walked away from your first love—Pray, tell Me why? Revelation 2:1–5
When believers lose their First Love, their zeal for God fades, leaving them barely any outward religious activity, visibly emptied hearts disconnected from genuine fellowship with Him. Revelation 2:1-7
I am now calling Heaven and Earth to be an eyewitness against you today: Choose this day to be an encourager, Choose this day to be a discourager? Deuteronomy 30:11-20
On a good day, to enjoy yourself; On a bad day, to examine your conscience. Share a true heart of thankfulness, all the live long days God gives everyday! Ecclesiastes 7:8-18
I am completely sure, I will see God’s goodness in the exuberant earth. Stay with God! Take my heart. Do not quit. I now say it again: I’ll stay with God . Psalm 27
Tis again, that ponderous season we eagerly celebrate all the anticipated, tiresome years of hurry up and wait. Hebrews 9:23-28
What we have been taught, what we have learned from others who have certainly tried their hand at writing a cogent story of the wonderful harvest of Scripture and history. Luke 1:1-4
Barriers to Christmas Joy: About Confronting or Celebrating Family estrangement this Holiday Season? Psalm 27:9-10
Is this some kind of a divine prank? Our Finding Joy in the Endurance of Struggle when they do not have any time or inclination to start looking? Romans 5:1-5
By God’s Mercy and Favor, Let us all strive to be empathetic Christians, to enhance our fellowship and worship, Kingdom usefulness unto the Master. Luke 1:57-66
Watching, Waiting, Witnessing God’s Anointed, coming to a Little Town of big beginnings near nowhere Special. Micah 5:1-5
Besides Great Apparel, Posters, Key Chains, and Jewelry, Are We Sure We Know the Message “Faith Over Fear” Truly Conveys to us? Psalm 118:5 – 16
So God said, in effect, “If that’s what you want, that is what you will get.” by Celebrating the Savior in a Culture that celebrates stuff. Romans 1:24-25
If now is the best of times, or if now is the worst of times, what do we do if our Christmas’ are not feeling Merry and or very Bright? Galatians 4:4-7
Lord, make me an instrument of your Compassion, your Generosity, and of your Grace. Lord, instruct us how to Live the Kingdom Life: Where Injury, Pardon. Prayer St. Francis of Assisi
Believe or not Believe? For since by a man death came, by a Man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. 1 Corinthians 15:20-28
Go Forth and Keep the Message Alive! Know the Greatest Proof: How we Can Know The Bible And Christianity Are Real! 2 Timothy 3:10-17

The Hopeful, Hope-Filled Truth of the Timeless Verse “For Everything There Is a Season.” Ecclesiastes 3:1
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Blog: “Discovering His Living Hope”
Accepting or Refusing History’s Greatest Invitation: Does God Truly Offer Us the Absolute Best for Free?
History’s Greatest Invitation Ever Extended, Yet Seldom Ever Delivered: Our Decision to Accept It or Refuse It.
History’s Greatest Invitation Ever Extended, Yet Seldom Ever Delivered: An Invitation Too Frequently Refused
Loving God, Living God, Loving and Living His Way: What is on Display?
The Greatest Invitation: When God Preached the Gospel – A Response.
Is it a Risk Worth Taking: How Often Should I Change My Heart and Soul?
Someone Else’s Living Hope: Will You Be the One Who Steps Forward?
Obtaining Our Living Hope: That In My Flesh, I Know That I Shall See God
For Whatever Was Written in Former Days was written; Part 4: So that with One Voice we Should Glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!
For What Was Written in Former Days …….. Part 3: May the God of Steadfastness and Encouragement Grant Believers a Spirit of Unity.
For Whatever was Written in Former Days ….. Part 2: Through Endurance, Through Encouragement, We Might Reap and Sow Hope from the Ruins!
For Whatever was Written in Former Days ….. Part 1, Can we Claim the Old Testament Covenant in these Times?
That We Might Have Hope
Can One Have Hope Without God?
Isaiah 55:6 Seek the Lord while He may be found, Call upon Him while He is near. “Promises, Promises.”
A Promise is A Promise is A Promise: God’s Promises Light Up Our Tunnel!
I Am Pondering the Promises of God. I Am Pondering the Goodness of God!
I Am Pondering the Goodness of God! Do I Recognize the Goodness of God?
I Am Pondering the Promises of God! I Am Pondering the reputation of The Lion, The Lamb, The Throne Room!
So, I Am Pondering the Revelation of God. I Am Deciding if Jesus is Worthy.
So, I Am Pondering the Revelation of God. Guess What? Even from the Very Beginning of All Things, God Attracts
I Am Pondering the Revelation of God. What Does it Mean That God Is Able to Do More Than All We Ask?
I Am Reflecting upon Making the Decision to Follow God. A Hope Deferred …. A Longing Fulfilled.
We are Reflecting Upon Making the Decision to Believe in God or Not. What is Your Christian Worldview?
We Are Reflecting Upon Our Decision to Believe in God or Not …. Guard Our Hearts in the Way They Should Go!
I Am Reflecting on the Sovereignty of God in My Life. Our Troubled Heart, this Troubled Christian Heart Within!
Today, I’m Ponder the Living Hope of God: The Miracle of Transformation. Jesus Transforms Water Into Wine!
Our Message of Living Hope which has been there from the Beginning.
Exalting the Name of the Lord our God and the Truth of God’s Word! With All of our Heart and our Soul!
Exalt the Name of the Lord our God! Exalt the Truth of the Lord our God! The Blessing of Knowing Scripture!
Exalt the Name of the Lord our God! Exalt the Truth of the Lord our God! What Can We Learn From Psalm 119?
Exalt the Truth of the Lord our God! How Much Are We Appreciating the Reality of Truth and the Word of God?
What Really Matters in Life is NOT What We NOW Think of Ourselves but What God Already Knows About Us!
All That Matters is What God Already Knows of Us! A Living Faith, A Dying Fear. I accept that I’m Risking Failure
For The Spirit Searches All Things, The Spirit Understands All Things! Much More Like Jesus, Less Like Me.
The Spirit Knows! Our True Happiness Is in Understanding and Obedience!
Is There Such an Event as Any Prayer Which is too Hard for God to Answer? Let Us Pray Through Psalm 119:33-40
Happy Thanksgiving! Covering God and Each Other With Love and Grace!
“Let Your Steadfast Love Come to Me, O LORD! Not By Bread Alone – Simply According to Your Biblical Promises”
My Promise: I WILL Speak about your Written Instructions in the Presence of Kings and I will NOT feel Ashamed!
Advent Week 1: Hope for our World, Living Hope into our Darkness, Unto You alone, O God, Do I lift up my Soul.
Lead Me Forward from My Darkness! Show Me Your Ways, Lord! And Teach Me Your Paths. Lead Me in Thy Truth.
Advent, A Season of Anticipation! My Time, Your Time, are in God’s Hands!
Advent: Season of Anticipation. Season of Preparation, Waiting! Attitude Adjustment: About Time!
Advent: Our Season of Anticipation, Season of Waiting, Timely Patience! Redeem our Meaningless Life Time!
Advent: It is Another Season of More Waiting. It is Another Season of More Preparation. It is Another Season out of our Lives. A Season of Nonsense?
Advent: It is Our Season of Waiting for Who Knows What or Who Knows Who, Our Season of Making Choices!
Advent Week Two: We Have Given our Joy a Name. Believe It or Not, We Can also Give our Peace a Real Name!
Advent: “For Unto Us a Child is Born, and Unto Us a Child is Now Given.” A Glorious Messiah, the Messianic Age
Advent Week Two: For a Child will be Born to us, a Son will be Given to us; the Prince of Peace. The Government Will Rest Squarely on His Shoulders.
Advent Week Two: For unto Us a Son is Given. The Hope of Our Salvation!
Advent Week Two: A Season of Peace. God’s Prophecies are Being Fulfilled!
Introducing: The Prophets of the Hebrew (Old) Testament. Discover How We Ought to Understand some of the Toughest Books in the Bible.
“God Said to Me, I Will Personally Introduce You to One Like Moses!”
Advent Week Three: An Ode to Joy! The Gift of Drawing Waters of Joy!
An Ode Unto my Joy! For YAHWEH, the LORD, is my Strength and Song; He also has become my Salvation.’
An Ode Unto My Joy! This Day is Holy Unto God! Do Not be Sad! For the Joy of Yahweh Your God is Your Strength!
An Ode to Man’s Joy. God is the Exact Center of our Joy. Jesus is the ONLY Key to Joy. Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desire!
Celebrate God, Celebrating You! It is Always Good Thing to Celebrate God!
Indescribable Joy! Immeasurable Joy! Inescapable Joy! Inevitable Joy! Jesus is our Souls Most Valuable Treasure!
All The Highways and By-Ways. The High Roads and the Low Roads. The Roads Less Traveled. Our Pathways.
Advent Week Four: The GOSPEL of God! The Greatest Christmas Ever!
Believe! For God so Loved the World!
Belonging! The Good News of Jesus Christ! The Good News of Belonging!
A.B.I.D.E. The Experience of Knowing and Loving God in Jesus Christ Today
John 3:16! We Believe! We Belong! We A.B.I.D.E.! Now, We Must Bear Fruit! Our Bearing Fruit as a 2021 Christian.
It is Christmas Eve 2021, and we are going to be Interrupting the Silence. The Poetry and Carols of Christmas! And the Angels Sing Joy to the World!
Christmas 2021! The Glory of God’s Incarnation! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
By what standard ought We to Love all others? By Whose standard? We love only because God first loved us!
What if I Really allowed God to Love Me? Developing A Great and Intimate Relationship with God, The Father.
Who Am I in God? Who Am I God that you would desire to be in relationship with me? Who Am I to even want or desire to be in relationship with God?
I am Praising the Promise! “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?”
Psalm 116: I Prayed and God Heard me! The Grace of Answered Prayers!
Happy New Year! Live Life Like You Were Loving Life! Embrace God! Take the Risks! Embrace New Beginnings!
Embracing God as He is Embracing us! Celebrating as God Celebrates us!
Embrace God, the Father! Embrace God the Son! Embrace God the Holy Spirit! Celebration of their Presence!
We are Made in the Image of God – It is the very Basis for Our Significance!
Waiting on God as He is Waiting upon You! Do You Wonder If God Approves of You? Why would God Wait On Me?
Arise, Shine; for thy Light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. God’s Light, Our Life!
Powerful People are Transformed, Renewed and Empowered by God!
Prayer: The Promise of Praying Together (Matthew 18:19-20)
Making a Genuine Investment in our Futures. Investing in Self or in Jesus?
When Making our Life’s Investment in Jesus, Walk Worthy of the Calling!
Unconventional Leadership: Those who would exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who would truly humble themselves will be exalted!”
Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayers. My heart is overwhelmed: God of my Salvation, I Pray! Lead me unto the Rock which is Higher than I!
O’ Lift up your heads, O ye gates; And be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors: And the King of glory will come in!
In Christ, we are being Transformed into a New Creation! We are Helping More People Become God’s Friends!
Tell Your Heart to Beat Again! Facing, Confronting our Fears, Trusting God!
My Soul Praises You, O’ Lord for I am So Fearfully and Wonderfully Made!
Relationship with God, the Father! Our Relationship with God the Son! Our Relationship with God the Holy Spirit! God, You know me Perfectly!
5 Powerful Lessons from Psalm 139 about God’s Truest Wonderfulness!
The Beautiful Significance of “Let the Words of My Mouth and Meditation of My Heart” spoken in Psalm 19:14!
Psalm 19: Declare the Glory of God!
Matthew 5:7 AMP, “Blessed [content, sheltered by God’s promises] are the merciful, for they will receive mercy.
Life is not being fair? Getting your Heart and Your Soul under Control. The Importance Of 1 Peter 3:13-18.
Asking and Answering the Questions: “Who Am I?” “What is My Purpose?” Finding your Place & Purpose in life.
When You Struggle with Self-Worth, Always Try Hard to Remember this: You Are Somebody Special to God!!!
A New Position, A New Reality, A New Focus, A New Perspective – Heavens!!
Turn your Eyes upon Jesus. Look Full into His Wonderful Face. The Things of this Earth will Grow Strangely Dim in the Light of His Glory and Grace.
Our Other Serenity Prayer: You have said, “Seek MY face.” My heart says to you, “Your face, Lord, do I Seek.” — Psalms 27:8 (ESV)
Psalm 1: God’s Stability within an Unstable World: The Blessed Man Feeds Himself, and He Nourishes Himself, by the Whole Word of God.
1 John 3:16-24– By this, do we know the genuine, true love of God? Are we Loving by Deed, and by God’s Truth?
Matthew 5:6, Blessed Are Those Who Hunger and Thirst for Righteousness
How firm a foundation you saints of the Lord, is laid for your faith in his excellent Word! What more can He say than to you He has said, to you who for refuge to Jesus have fled? Praying for Wisdom | James 1:5-8
When You Need Hope for Your Day: A Prayer and 5 Truths from Psalm 121.
My Jesus, My Savior of All Comfort, I Pray You will keep Me Near thy Cross!
What Jesus Did! ‘Beyond Mourning’ ‘Beyond our Grieving’— Matthew 5:4
Matthew 5:4 | Blessed are THEY that mourn: for THEY shall be comforted. What About those Blessed Mourners?
God said, Show Me Your Friends and I Will Surely Show You Your Character!
Proverbs 11:25: Watering Others and Getting Watered Yourself. Meaning of the Generous Person Will Prosper.
Jeremiah 29:11 Digging Deeper with God. Understand the Real Meaning of ‘For I Know the Plans I Have for You’!
Word of God! Speak Your life into Me and Over Me! O’ Restore My Soul! We Can Find Power in His Word! We Can Find Genuine Life! (Hebrews 4:12)
Walking Upon God’s Well-Trodden Path (Meditation on Psalm 119:15-16)
A Teachable Heart. A Teachable Soul. A Teachable Life. On Psalm 119:15-16.
From Every Single Street Corner, Let the Word Go Forth! Praise the Lord!! Let all our Praises Sing Out unto God! Let All Voices Shout Out: God Wins!!!
Who is it who is Really and Ultimately in 100% Absolute Control of our Life? Just Exactly Whose Plan is it Anyway?
Come! Let us Be Continuously Joyful in Hope. Come! Let us be Continually Patient in Affliction, Come, Let us be Continually, Continuously Faithful in an Attitude of Prayer—Romans 12:12
Happy Valentine’s Day! The Love of God in the Light of Valentine’s Day!
As Much as it is Possible with Me, be Joyful in Hope, Patient in Affliction, Faithful in Prayer—Romans 12:12
Am I like a person who looks at his face in a mirror, studies his features, goes away, and immediately forgets what he looks like? James 1:22-25
Now I Choose to Believe! Now, Let Us all Choose to Believe! A Shared Prayer for Difficult Times! Our Confidence is Forever Secure in God’s Faithfulness!
Holy Spirit, You are Welcome Here! Come! Holy Spirit Rain Down! Being Taught, Counselled by the Holy Spirit
Our Holiness with God. What a Friend we [all] have in Jesus! All our Sins and Griefs to Bear. What a [true]Privilege to Carry Everything to God in Prayer!
Psalm 46:10! What Does “Be Still and Know That I Am God” Really Mean?
I am Practicing the Presence of God today. I need His Healing Presence! Abiding in the Presence of My Jesus!
Faithful in our Little Things. Faithful in our Wealth of Poverty! Why do we Choose Faith in God? Luke 16:10-11
Proverbs 21:21 > What is the Single Greatest Pursuit We Can Undertake?
An Invitation is An Invitation! Come! Freely Drink! Come Freely Eat! Come Freely Live! O’ Come and Be Satisfied!
Guess What? Grace Wins! God Wins! The Assurance of God’s Part in it All!
With All of My Heart, With All of My Soul, With All of My Strength, I Will Either Fear Man or I Will Trust God!
I Can Only Imagine Christ my Savior is Approaching my Door, Standing at my Doorway, and He is Getting Ready to Start Knocking, on my Doorway ….
Softly and Tenderly, Jesus is Calling, Calling for You and For Me. So, Come! Take the Chance! Seek the Whole of the Lord While He May be Found!!!!
When Living Hope is all that Remains for us to Live our Lives by. Psalm 42:2
A Timely, Seasonal, Reflection on the Value of Self-Reflection. In Christ, is there Genuine “God-Esteem”? Acts 3:19.
About Our Time Management skills with God. Our Timely Fellowship God
Open Hearts! Open Souls! Open Lives! Open Hands! Open Hope! Open Faith! Open Doors! Living into God’s Time!
Yes! There is Hope, Refreshment, Satisfaction, for our Weary Souls!
When is our very last prayer spoken? Another Word about Self-Reflections and Confession | Prophet Joel 2:12-14
Man Shall Not Live by Bread Alone – A Brief Reflection upon Matthew 4:4
A Final Personification of Wisdom… Rethinking the Proverbs 31 Standard
“Actions Speak Louder than Words ” True or Not True? Are Deeds a Better Sign of Love Than Words? 1 John 3:18
How do we Imagine God to be when we, Sinners in the Hands of a Singing and Dancing God, Pray? Luke 11:9-13
“Sweet Hour of Prayer! Sweet Hour of Prayer, that Calls Me from a World of Care. Bids me at my Father’s Throne, make all my Wants, Wishes Known.” Giving God His Due!!! Philippians 4:7
Seeing Yourself Through the Eyes of God? – Remember! One Passion! One Devotion! One Love! Exactly One God!
My Broken Dreams Were Restored! David’s Humble Prayer. 2 Samuel 7
“Search Me, O’ God! Put Me upon thy Witness Stand! Go Ahead, God, Cross Examine my Life!” Psalms 139:23-24
Search Me, O God, Know My Heart!!! Examine Me and Know my Thoughts! More Time with God. Psalms 139:23
A Thousand Hallelujah’s, A Thousand Thousand More for My God in Whom is my Dwelling Place, Whom I Trust!!!
James 1:12 Trust and Obey. For there is No Other Way. But to be Happy in Jesus. To Trust! Obey! Live! Blessed Is the One Who Perseveres Under Trials.
How To Test the Practical Reality of Your ‘Real’ and ‘Practical’ Religion. They Will Know We are Christians by Our (__________) James 1:26-27
Living for Jesus: Don’t Grow Weary in Doing Good to All – Galatians 6:9-10
Thinking and Believing, Reaching and Knowing, Speaking, Listening, and Hearing and Doing, Living and Loving from God’s own Perspective.
There is Within my Heart a Melody! Jesus, Jesus, Sweetest Name I Know! He Fills my Every Longing, Keeps me Singing as I Go! Jeremiah 29:13-14
Behold! A Day is Coming Soon! One God! One King! One Day! O’ What a Day of Great Rejoicing that Will Be!
Forward to Christian Maturity: How do I Obtain a Blessing | 1 Peter 3:8-12
God is Asking Us …. Do We want Him to Bless Us today? Proverbs 28:18-22
Abounding, Abundant, Faithfulness is the True Keys to God’s Blessings. Wisdom From: Proverbs 28:18-22
Whether I am Abounding within the Abundance of God’s Blessings, in the Absence of Blessings, there is still the Power of “YET!” Habakkuk 3:17-19
Why “Faith, Hope, and Love” Are So Important and WILL Last Forever.
Help Me to Trust in You, O’ Lord! Be Thou My Wisdom! |Proverbs 3:5–6|
A Word to The Wise on Finding Your Way: Commit Yourself unto the Lord. Friends, Come, Find the Quiet Center!
A Father to the Fatherless. What to Believe When “Dad” Walks Away? What to Believe of God, our Father?
In the Pit with the King: Persistence, Patience and Purpose |Psalm 40:1-3|
So, Have I Not Commanded You? Be Strong and Courageous! Joshua 1:9
Fellow Christians, “As Iron Sharpens Iron,” So You too Can Truly Influence Others for the Better! |Proverbs 27:17
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, No Other Name, No Other Option, No Other Power. A Study of Acts 4:1-12
Gazing upon the unseen face of God changes our Perspective. Psalm 27:4
Imagine the Possibility! I am Finding Myself at a Loss for Words! Escaping the Thought Trap!!! |Joshua 1:7 – 9|
Romans 5:8 | The Surprising Gospel |
Romans 5:8 |The Surprising Gospel of God: What does the Surprise Look Like? “I Loved You at Your Darkest!”
Romans 5:6-8 |The Surprise Gospel | I am so Struggling with the Surprise!
Romans 5:6-8 |The Surprise Gospel | We Shall All See God as He Really Is!!!
Luke 19:33-34 ||Devotion in Action|| “My God! The Lord has need of ME!?”
Countdown to Calvary: We Walk into Jerusalem with Jesus. Jesus Wants us to see Humble Service – Philippians 2
Countdown to Calvary: Humility, We See Jesus – Dying to Bear Much Fruit. Lessons in our Living John 12:20 – 26
Countdown to Calvary. On the very prospect of Suffering for our faith – Do Not be Surprised! Only Rejoice in the Lord Always! (1 Peter 4:12 – 19)
Countdown to Calvary. We Have Set both our feet inside the Upper Room. The Humility of Love. John 13:1-17
Countdown to Calvary. An Agonizing Walk into the Garden of Gethsemane. Jesus and Us. – MATTHEW 26:36-46
Countdown to Calvary: Walking with the Chief Priests and Pharisees into Pilates Palace. “Order the Tomb to be made secure!” (Matthew 27:62-66)
Its Easter!! A New Countdown to Life Begins! A New Hope and a New Living Morning is Here! The SON is Risen!!!
WHO IS THIS JESUS? (ROMANS 3:21-26)
Zeal Must be Based Upon Knowledge. Zealous Adherence to God’s Truth!!—Search and Survey of Romans 10 (1-2)
The Cry of a Christian Heart. God’s Righteousness Versus Our Own Self Righteousness—Romans 10:3
What does it mean to say Jesus Christ is the End of The Law—Romans 10:4
“I Know the Way by Heart!” Moses Described the Way of Righteousness That Is by The Law—Romans 10:5
A Believers Believing Heart, The Word of God, The Word of Faith, The Word of Life unto Salvation. Romans 10:6-9.
The Heart Believes and it is Justified, the Mouth Confesses and is Saved. Is Public Confession Necessary or Even Essential for Salvation? Romans 10:9-10
Genuinely, Do We 100%, Each Honestly Believe Everyone Who Calls Upon the Name of the Lord Will Truly Be Saved? Romans 10:8-13
Beautiful Are the Feet of Those Who Bring Good News—About Preaching the Gospel of God. Romans 10:14-15
What about our Preaching the Gospel? Who has Believed our Message? What of our Excuses for not preaching, not speaking God’s Word? Romans 10:16-21
Consider how to Motivate each Other. Just how to Stir One another Up to love being the Church. Hebrews 10:19-25.
Radical Encouragement, Radical Motivation: The Principle of Radical Generosity. What Jesus Really Means By: “Give and It Will Be Given to You.” Luke 6:37-38
Motivated and Encouraged to Believe in God. Evidence which God Revealed that Proves He Exists. Believe God is revealing Himself through NATURE. Psalm 19
I am so Encouraged and Motivated to Believe in God. If The Heavens and the Earth Declare His Glory, What Do Yours and Mine Eyes See? Psalm 19:1-6
I am greatly encouraged and deeply motivated to believe in God by these Mightily Inspiring Promises of God’s Presence and Protection. Psalm 18:2
Encouraged and Highly Motivated to Believe in God. The Necessity of The Creation in The Gospel. Psalm 19:1-6
I am Encouraged and Motivated and Mightily Inspired to Believe in God. The Law’s Lesson: Come, Fully Desire God in the beauty of his Holiness. Psalm 19:7-11
Motivated and encouraged, and now, Inspired to Believe in God. What then may be the Next Step for us? “Delight Yourself in the Lord” Psalm 37:4-6
Encouraged to Believe. Motivated to Believe. Inspired to Believe. Desire to Believe. Make Me Acceptable in Your Sight, O LORD (Psalm 19:12-14)
“When upon this earth, when my life is all said and done, God, let me have the only true desire of my heart……” My God Honoring Words and my God Honoring Thoughts. – Psalms 19:14
Happy Mother’s Day! God’s Priceless Legacy: The Hope of Faithful Moms.
Distracted from Believing in God or Driven to Holiness? Do We Wear our High-Tech or His Holy Headphones?
God speaks into One ear, and we end up coming out the other. Our habit of Selective Listening, Elective Hearing.
Those Who have Ears let them Hear what the Lord God is saying to them Today. Please make their Ears Tingle.
Hearing God |Today, IF You Hear His Voice Do Not Harden Your Heart to it.
God Speaks! Are we Hearing Him or Are We Instead Testing Him? Mark 12:28-34
From defeat and disobedience, from testing God to acceptance. How do we hear Him when He speaks? 1 Samuel 3
To know God, to believe in God, to Follow Jesus, We Need to Learn to Listen to His Voice. Exodus 3:1-5
“I am Praying to God. I am Listening for God’s answer and I can almost hear Him speak it to me. There is so much static. What am I to do now?” Daniel 9
Prayer Starts with God (Isaiah 65:24; 1 John 5:12-15; Romans 8:26-30)
Confidence and Carefulness in our Prayer Life – It all begins with our Confidence in God. 1 John 5:12-17
Footprints in the Sand. Confidence in the Sovereignty of God. When we find It hard to Pray, there is Grace even before our Asking for it. Romans 8:26-30.
Happy Birthday! God, What Should I Pray for Now? A Feast of “Not so Much,” a Feast of “Just Right” or “Too Much?”
About Addressing the Silence of God. “Okay God, I am Praying! Demanding! Where for Art Thou now?” Psalm 28
When Heaven Seems Too Silent. The “silent treatment”? How might we respond when God seems so distant?
About our Addressing the Silence of God in our life. Turning our Silence and our Souls over to God. “Unto God I Will Turn and Lift Up My Hands.” Psalm 28
See! I am raising my un-holy hands. I have Made my decision to Speak, my demands to be Heard. But tell me who is there to hear me, to come between me, my friends and my God? Job 9.
Examining My Perception of Myself. What about Changing my Thinking, Revolutionizing my Life? Job 9:20-21
Walking into the crying faces of Uvalde, Texas, of Buffalo, New York. Can I have Confidence in God’s Presence? What Assurances that God has not, will not, leave us behind? Deuteronomy 31:1-8
O’ My Soul, Never Give Up! ALWAYS BELIEVE! There is always hope! God is always there to uphold Us! Psalm 22:1-2
Is my cup half full or half empty? Am I, are WE, seeing the God possibilities?
Is Your Glass Half Empty or Half Full? Think Again! Attitude of your Hearts.
Memorial Day: Remembering God is Remembering You. Deuteronomy 8:11
Is my cup half full or half empty? Is my doubt a half a doubt or a whole doubt? The Doubting Thomas that lives and breathes within Us all. John 20:24-25
Encountering the Resurrection – The Presence of Jesus – “Breathe on Me!” The Gospel of John 20:19-23.
I am Encountering the Resurrection. “My Lord and my God!” John 20:26-29
I have encountered the Resurrection. Receiving the free gift of God’s Grace: “Charisma” Romans 5:15-21
Did The Holy Spirit Only Empower 12 Disciples on The Day of Pentecost? Acts 1:4-8
ACTS 2 – PENTECOST! GOD FULFILLS HIS PROMISE! THE HOLY SPIRIT IS POURED OUT UPON THE CHURCH.
I am reaching for the unquestionably great promise of now unquestionably living the unquestionably great life of Christ – seeking God with my WHOLE heart, my WHOLE soul. Acts 2:37-39
Thus, saith the Lord, DO NOT act as if you are going to live forever because you most definitely are NOT! Acts 2:41.
Fresh Fire: Becoming the Person God Has Called You to Be. 1 Corinthians 2:12
Ordering our First Steps. Moving Forth into Mission and Ministry. Proverbs 9:10
Moving forward into Ministry: Trust, Faith, a Living Hope, after a Tragedy. Job 13:13-18
Fresh Fire: Plug into His Power. Move from Your strength into His Strength
Trinity Sunday. The Diversity of God is Interrupting the Silence of the Silent. Bearing up to the Unbearable World. Gospel of John 16:12-15
Happy, Blessed, Highly Favored are those whose Strength is in the Lord: The Secret of Usefulness. Psalm 84
YAHWEH Sabaoth, “The Lord of Hosts.” Our Battles belong to the Lord Alone!
Searching for a Miracle. Considering the Power of Salvation. “If I could but touch the hem of His Garment.” Mark 5:25-34
Expecting a Miracle. Matthew 9:18-30.
The Miracle of delayed Miracles. After what literally seems like a lifetime, the Lame WILL finally LEAP up. Acts 3:1-10
God’s Miracle of Now: “Exactly the Right Moment” Thoughts on the Glory of God, and our 2022 Celebration of JuneTeenth
Our Celebration of Father’s Day 2022. Honor in the Home. Exodus 20:12
Parenting by Faith. Why is Faith in God so vitally important to today’s Families? Deuteronomy 6:4-9, Ephesians 6:1-4.
Parenting! Will you bless your children? Will you affirm and love them the way God originally intended? Genesis 1:26-27
Fulfilling The Great Commission: Convolution of Same Sex Marriage.
Where God’s Charity and Truest Love Prevails. Making our Relationships Work. The Role of Sexual Intimacy in Marriage. Genesis 1:26-28 and 2:24-25.
What Does the Bible Teach us About Sexual Orientation? What is our God’s Answer for the Complex Question of our Sexual Orientation? Genesis 1:26-28
What does it mean to have Quality of Life? The Vanity of our Contemplating a Life without God. Ecclesiastes 1:12-14
When Giving Advice: “It is always wise, wiser, and wisest to pay close, closer, closest attention to who you pay close, closer, closest attention to.” 1Kings 12
Heartbeat of Love and Hate. “I Love to Hate!” “I Hate to Love!” 1 John 3:11-18.
God, our Creator and Our Emotional Health. Connecting our whole selves with the Word of God. Mark 12:28-34
Okay, Let’s talk about our Self-Control. “God, become My Guide and Guardian right EXACTLY NOW!” Proverbs 25:28
The Gospel in a Nutshell – Courage! Leaving it all Behind. Mark 10:46-52
The Gospel of Jesus Christ in a Nutshell: Is the Good News for everyone? Is there always someone around to abundantly help or hinder all others? Mark 10:47-49
The Gospel in a Nutshell: And so, Jesus Asked, He is still Asking, “What Do You Want Me to Do for You?” Mark 10:49-51
The Gospel in a Nutshell: The Son of Man Came to Serve. Mark 10:35-45.
The Gospel of our GOD in a Nutshell: Servants of Freedom. Exodus 3:10-15
The Gospel of our GOD in a Nutshell. Servanthood in God’s Neighborhood.
Servanthood in God’s Neighborhood: I Serve for the JOY of Accomplishing the Goal which God has Placed before me.
Servanthood in God’s Neighborhood: Heavenly Economics. Proverbs 11:24-28.
Servanthood in God’s Neighborhood Selfless Service inside a Selfie World.
One Reality of the Gospel Life: How to Be Selfless: An In-Depth Guide for us Selfish People. Galatians 3:6-8 Msg.
Selflessly Modeling Jesus’ Example: Learning how to see others, up to and including, Ourselves! Ephesians 5:1-2
Imitating Jesus. Modeling Jesus. Learning to See Our Neighbors and Ourselves (Part 2). Ephesians 5:1-2
Why should I be a Servant anyways? Because our Loving our God Means Submitting to God. Matthew 20:20-28
Why Should I Walk with God and with His Blessings? Deuteronomy 5:32-33.
Summer Vacation and Sharing the Gospel: Having fun and Overcoming Spiritual Shyness. 2 Timothy 1:3-12.
Entering into God’s neighborhood: Witnessing to Anyone, at Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere. Luke 5:27-32.
Jesus’ Sense of Mission. Jesus Came not for the righteous but for Sinners.
In the Potter’s House, at the Potter’s Wheel: God, our Creator, is not even close to being finished with You and I and His Neighborhood. Jeremiah 18:1-11
God’s Message for God’s Church. God is at His Wheel: It’s always a Time of New Beginnings inside the Potter’s House.
How might our Church Respond to our God’s Sovereignty over its Life: “Mold Me and Make Me, This is what I Pray?”
Church Worship which truly Counts: “I am the Church. You are the Church. We are the Church Together.” Isaiah 1:10-17
Social Justice, Civil Disobedience, Unity. The Bible and the Body of Christ: “I am the Church. You are the Church. We are the Church together.” Isaiah 1:10-17.
“Life is Not Fair at all!” Social Justice, Social Conscience, the Body of Christ.
My Personal Faith. Social Justice and our God’s Call for Justice. Isaiah 1:10-26.
Our Rejection of God: How Dare We Call Ourselves Christians? Jeremiah 7:16-26.
Weaponized Narratives. Romans 3:5-8
Pondering our Christianity? Excuses! Excuses! All My Excuses! Genesis 3:8-13
Pondering my Christianity! When I am “Called to Account.” When I “know” that only One Whopper of an Excuse will get ME through a Crisis. Exodus 32
Pondering Our Christianity? No More Excuses for our Excuses? One day all of our Excuses must CEASE! Luke 14:16-24
Pondering our Christianity? So, how about speaking of Spiritual Laziness? Pondering our Excuses? Proverbs 24
Tending unto our Procrastination’s Vineyard. Couch Potato Christianity. Pondering my God. Proverbs 24:30-34
The Zeal of Ants! Get Some Ants and Put them in Your Pants! Proverbs 6:6
God’s Really Surprising Truth about our Spiritual Laziness and What We Can Genuinely Do About it. Jeremiah 17:5-8.
Our Personal Accountability to God: Biblical Guidance. Hebrews 4:10-13
Pondering our Living Hope: Everyone Will Have to Give an Account to God—Romans 14:10-12
We are Accountable for our Christian Actions. Put No Stumbling Block in Your Brother’s Way—Romans 14:13-15
What About “Maximum Availability of our Hearts and Souls?” The Kingdom of God is Righteousness, Peace and Joy in the Holy Spirit—Romans 14:16-18
Maximum Availability: Make Every Effort to Pursue, Promote Peace and Mutual Edification. Romans 14:19-21
Make, Take Time for the Holy One. Take, Make “Every Effort” to do what Leads to Your Peace and Your Mutual Edification. Mark 1:35-39
When our Work Becomes our Real Identity: Was the Apostle Paul the “Original Energy Bunny Christian?” Philippians 3:7-11
When “Church” Seems Bigger Than God. Much like the Grasshopper is as to Man. Numbers 13:30-33, Isaiah 40:21-22.
Dare to be Different! Dare to Focus on the Promises of God. Numbers 14:24
A Fresh and Sure Sighting of the Occupied Throne of Heaven. The Worship of Heaven. Revelation 4
Now, is exactly the right time! Come, Let Us Finally get excited about our Worship of our God. Revelation 4:1-11
Our One Exclusive Focus: Our Worship of the Lamb who sits upon the Throne. Revelation 4:1-11, Revelation 5:13-14.
With eyes of Joy, we will become Like what and WHO we Worship. The Lion who is also a Lamb. Revelation 5:1-14.
Envision now our Worship Central: The Lion! Worthy is the Name of the Lamb who was slain for us all. Revelation 5
How Do You Tell God You Love Him Through Your Worship? Revelation 5
Waiting for Jesus. Learning how to Walk Naturally in The Supernatural Anointing of God. Philippians 1:22-26
I’m Humbled! I’m Being Humbled! I’m Learning How to Walk Naturally in the Supernatural Anointing of a Living God.
My Renouncing my Possessions and walking Natural in the Supernatural Anointing of my Savior. Luke 14:33
Believers are “Set Apart,” “Called and Sent and Commissioned” for Mission – A Challenged, Changing Church for our Changing and most Challenging Times. Acts 13:1-4
We are all Intentionally Called by God! Intentionally Set Apart for Christ Jesus by our Water Baptism. Matthew 13:13-17
Striving to Remember the Righteous. That Difference between our “Roots and our Fruits.” Proverbs 11:3-11
Choose this Day What Riches You Will Pursue and Serve! Pray! Choose this Day Whose Righteousness You Will Pursue and Will Serve? Proverbs 11:1-11
Unrighteous Righteousness. Matthew 6:1-4 HCSB
Blessed Are Those Who Hunger and Thirst for Righteousness. Matthew 5:6
The Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Power of God, the Righteousness of God, the “Just” just faithfully walking upright with their Savior God. Romans 1:13-17
God’s Most Eager Desire for Me: To Most Eagerly Pray, To Most Eagerly Preach, To Most Eagerly Proclaim, HIS Gospel. Romans 1:8-15
My Duty and Covenant obligation to You is this: I do not want you to be unaware of God’s Words for Me and You unaware of God’s Words for You too. Romans 1:13-15
Covenant Obligation: To be Sharing our Faith Story Where Jesus Christ Is Not Known nor even Necessarily Desired. Romans 15:17-22
Is Jesus Influencing, Making, Any Measure of Difference in our Life? Colossians 1:1 – 8
Our Covenant Obligation: Our Sabbath Rest, Sabbath Reset. Redeeming our Time with the Only God of our Shalom. Exodus 20:8-11
In the Light of the Morning Sun. The Awesome Face of God on the Waters.
A Prayer does not Fix Everything, but It definitely does Change Everything!
Hope in the Lord! Be Strong! Let Your Heart take Courage! Let Your Heart be Strengthened! Keep in Step with God. Psalm 27:14
I Will Still Choose to Believe. Choose Comfort. Choose Security. I Will Still Choose the Resurrection and the Life.
I am a Singing Sinner in the hand of a Singing, Dancing and Victorious God. Zephaniah 3:14-20
Divine Ability for Human Necessity.
Lord, When I Look Up at Your Skies, at what Your Fingers have Made, Tell Me, what is Your Purpose for Me? Psalm 8:4
This is the Burden we each Share: Restoring Yet Respecting. Bearing Without Burdening. Galatians 6:2
Sometimes it Takes a Crisis to Know we Belong and are Connected to God.
Our Crossroads and God’s Roadmap. Jeremiah 6:16 and Matthew 7:13-14
Leading Lives of Consistency. Nehemiah 11:1-2, 1 John 2:4-6
Consistent Habits Will Consistently Change Everything. The Key to Desire God’s Word and Prayer. Psalm 119:18
A Most Amazing Question: If God is for Us Who Else Can Be Against Us? God has Got Your Back! Romans 8:31
Blessed Assurance! God HAS got My Back! Will I trust God to “Be There?” Will I fall Backwards into His Hands? Isaiah 6:8-10.
How Jesus Viewed Ministry Success: Focus on God’s Purposes. Luke 4.43
The Absolute Surety of God’s Love for Us. What More is there for us to say? What More is there for us to do now? 1 John 4:7-21
Being the Content Christian: Keep Calm, Carry On! Philippians 4:11-13
How To Have Faith in God When Life Gets Tough – Building Up Our House, Hearing God’s Words. Matthew 7:24
In God we will Trust though the earth gives way beneath our feet, the winds blow and the houses crumble into the heart of the sea, we will still not fear!
Embracing Forgiveness. Choosing only to Embrace the Grace, the Embrace of ABBA, our Father God. Matthew 6:14-15
Who Embraces a God Like our God of Forgiveness and Mercy? Micah 7:18-20
Let The Words of Christ Richly Dwell, Deep within our Soul! Colossians 3:16
Encouraging One Another in the Church Family. Colossians 3:16-17
Five Ways to Improve Ourselves at Encouraging One Another, Building Each Other Up. 1 Thessalonians 5:11
A Great Time for Pastor Appreciation: About His Lifetime of Labor, a Pastor After God’s Own Heart. Jeremiah 3:15
Try to Imagine Redemption: Beauty Lost, Beauty Restored. Romans 12:2
Kyrios, Jesus is Lord. Romans 10:9
Do We Recognize Jesus Christ as Our One, Only true King? Revelation 5:13
Do We Ponder or even Recognize our own Desire for HIS Vastly Better Life? Genesis 50:22-25.
Pondering and Recognizing We are Made for Good Works. Titus 3:13-15
Are we Pondering Our Compassionate Shepherd? Considering or Recognizing the ‘Reasonable’ Christian? Luke 7:13-14
Scratching my Head, I’m Reading the Bible, Pondering the Hard Questions: Is Christianity “Reasonable?” 1 Corinthians 1:17-31
Pondering, Praying, this Invitation: “Come Now, Let us Reason Together saith the Lord.” Isaiah 1:18-20
Pondering and Praying for a Blessed Life: Life Blessed By The Word Of God With a Living Courage. Psalm 119:17-24
The Word of God: Reflecting upon the Great Challenge of our Connection & Relationship with God-When In Pain, the Midst of Suffering. Exodus 3:7-9
My Personal Reflection on our Suffering in our Silence and our Perceptions of the “Silence” of ‘Father’ God. Psalm 13
A Letter to all Christian Consumers: Be Strong, Dare to Ponder upon the Word of God, to Pray Deeply and to Think more Clearly, to Understand His Intent, to Grasp His Applications. 2 Timothy 2:7
Being Strong in the Faith-Wrestling with Almighty God. 2 Timothy 2:1-7
Through the Obedience of One, Many are Made Righteous. Romans 5:18-19
Being Troubled for the Right Reason: Right Answer for the Right Question. The Right Place at God’s Right Time! Acts 17:16-20
How Hard is it to Communicate the Good News Effectively? Acts 17:16-34
The Beginning of the Facts Regarding the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God and Son of Man. Mark 1:1-8
Lets Simply Begin by Entering into His Story: The Beginning of the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ: Mark 1:1
Do we need a New Beginning? Do we need a Fresh Start with God? Mark 1:1
Mark 1:1-3 Recognizing the Place to Begin: Our Acknowledgment of our own Need to Turn our lives around.
The Only Place to Begin when we do not know where to Begin. Mark 1:4-8
The Ministry and Mission of Jesus Christ Begins. About our Faithful Discipleship, about being able to Identify with Jesus. Mark 1:9-13
The Ministry and Mission of Jesus Begins: Two Kinds of Wildernesses. Numbers 14:26-35 and Mark 1:11-15
Who of us does not long to hear these exact words from our God right now: “You are My Child, in whom I love; with whom I am well Pleased?” Mark 1:9-11
Who among us does not long to hear these words pointing them, directing them, to their Living Hope: “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the World?” John 1:25-34
Mark 1:14-15 – Our Life’s (?)Tiny, Timely Lessons about our alleged “Successes” and God’s Long Established Record of Living by His Promises and Fulfillment.
About our Developing our Passion for Communicating the Gospel. Mark 1:14-15
When we Feel Disappointed in God, the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, what is our response? What is our God’s first response? John 11:1-7
Please Do Not “GIVE UP” but instead, “TAKE UP” All of GOD’S Promises, all of GOD’S “YES!” and “AMEN!” for Your Life! 2Corinthians 1:18-22
A Lesson in Beginning Transition: 4 Tips to Understanding, Communicating the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Mark 1:1-8
Acknowledging Our Holy Discontent! Acknowledging, Allowing Ourselves to be Overcome by our Savior. Mark 1:12-13
A Lesson in Temptation: “I Give You only Good things because I have only Loved you with an Everlasting Love!” Genesis 2:4-9
He Trains My Hands for War and He Trains My Fingers for the Battle, and He also Trains my Heart and my Soul to Care. Veterans Day 2022. Psalm 144:1-2
Getting Gut-Level Honest with God. Giving God our Bitterness. Psalm 137
Stop Hiding. Be Humble. Get Honest. The Power of Being Honest with God About Your Struggle. Genesis 3:8-13.
Grace Greater than our Sin: We say God is trying to Hide Himself from us. Brutal Reality is we are trying too hard to hide our deceitful selves from God. Psalm 32
Burying our Sins in our Backyards? Our Sin being Hidden in Plain Sight? Buried, Burying, Unburying Achan’s Treasures? Joshua 7:16-26
Am I Playing Hide and Seek with God? Do I Know this: Nothing in All of God’s Creation is ever Hidden from the Eyes and the Word of God? Hebrews 4:12-15
The Glory of our Mutual Relationship. Peek-a-Boo I See You! Playing Hide-and-Go Seek with God. Proverbs 25:2
Individually and as God’s Church, How Can We All Avoid Letting a Bitter Root Grow Out of Our Lives? Hebrews 12:15-17
About Our Holding On To Our Past – Grudges and Resentments, Regrets, And Remorse’s. Philippians 3:7-16
We Are Saved By The Grace Of God. Matthew 25:31-46
Only But By The Grace of God: When God Lets You See Victory. Psalm 118:5
Today, I am Pondering the Goodness of God, Who Is My Savior. “God is Great. God is Good. Let us Thank Him for ……..” Psalm 65:4
When You Cannot nor Do not Feel Like Being Thankful this Thanksgiving, Why Should we Pray? 1 Thessalonians 5:12-18
A Christian’s Expression of Love for Thanksgiving: How Big a Collection of “Memorial Stones” to God’s Goodness and God’s Faithfulness? Joshua 4:1-7
Earthquake! Unleashing the Power of Praise and Thanksgiving! Acts 16:22-34
Christian Thanksgiving: ALL Thanks be unto God for His Unshakable Kingdom. Hebrews 12:25-29
Preparation for Advent. Idolatry – We Become Who and What we Worship. Idols and Images and God. Psalm 115:1-8
Preparation for Advent. Idolatry – all about Our Name or ALL about God’s Fame? Some Hidden Lessons from the ‘ancient’ Tower of Babel. Genesis 11:1-9
Preparation for Advent: Scratching My Head, Asking the Hard Question: “Why Isn’t God Fair?” Asaph’s Song Psalm 73
Who has any Hope now for “The Great I Am?” Idolatry, Equality with God? “To whom then will you compare Me That I would be his equal?” says the Holy One. Isaiah 40:12-31
Where does all our true Advent Hope Rest? Answer: God is “UN” Equaled! Isaiah 40:25-26
O Comfort Me, O Lord; The Journey Is Too Hard! There’s a Reason for Hope! Our Unchanging God! Isaiah 40:1-11
I am Precious in God’s Sight. The God of the Impossible Knows MY whole Name! I Know He Knows All Your Names Too! Isaiah 43:1-7
Advent Week Two: What Joy in the Lord? Mary’s Response to Joy – “O My God!” My Lord Truly Knew MY Name!” Luke 1:26-38
Advent Week Two: What Joy in the Lord? I will Recall the Works of Our Lord, all the Power of God’s Miracles. Psalm 77
Advent Week Two: What Joy in the Lord? Turning Christmas Chaos into Christmas Joy, Embrace Uncertainty! Luke 2:8-20
What Ordinary Joy is there left for us in our Extraordinarily Extraordinary God? Ode to Joy? Where Exactly is all of our Extraordinarily Extraordinary Joy in our One Extraordinarily Extraordinary God? Luke 2:15-20.
How Am I Living Out all of my Joy in My Lord? Ordinary Shepherds being made Extraordinary Missionaries. Seeing all of our God’s Extraordinary Inclusiveness. Luke 2:15-20
Christmas Joy! Christmas Characters! Joy of the Shepherds, Joy of the Angels We Have Heard on High. Luke 2:8-15
Hark, the Herald Angels and Shepherds Sing: “The Glory of the Lord has Shone All Around Them.” Luke 2:8-11, Luke 2:12-20
An Indescribable Joy, An Undeniable Presence: We Were Made to Reflect the Glory of the Lord! Created in the Image of God to Shine Forth! Exodus 40:34-38
Advent Week Three: “And The Word became Flesh and Lived Among Us.” “We Actually Beheld His Glory, Actually Full of Grace and Full of Truth.” John 1:14-18
Ecclesiastes 3:11 Our Vision For Eternity: Advent Week Three: “And the Word became Flesh and He LIVED Among Us!”
Today, Why Should Anyone be Asking Themselves this Question: Am I Telling Coming Generations My GOD Stories? Psalm 78:1-4
From Generation unto Generations: Hope for The Coming Generations! Judges 2:6-10.
4 Magnificent Faith Moments When Mary Visits Elizabeth. Luke 1:39-45
What Is So Magnificent About Mary Walking 90 Miles to Visit Elizabeth? Luke 1:39-45
“It is ALL in Our DOING!” 10 Ideas to Bring Your Family, Your Friends and Your Neighbors a Wee Little Bit More of God’s Love this Christmas. 1 John 4:7-21
“It is truly ALL Within all our Doing!” Zachariah’s Testimony of Faith. The Story Before the Story! Luke 1:5-17
Remember, it is all within our doing: Our Being Ready for God’s Surprises. Luke 1:5-25
YAHWEH REMEMBERS! The Songs of Christmas – Zechariah’s – A New Song for all those Generations of Doubting, Yet, Righteous Souls. Luke 1:67-80
“Come, Magnify Jehovah God With Me!” Songs of Christmas: Mary’s Song of her Truly Magnificent Theology! Luke 1:46-55
Paying Attention to God: Waiting for Something Definitely Better – For Our Salvation. Songs of Christmas, Songs of Simeon’s and Anna’s Joy. Luke 2:21-38
Confident Expectations! The Songs of Christmas: The Servant Songs and the Greatest Service of All. Isaiah 49:1-13
Immanuel, Our Christmas Hallelujah! Psalm 146, Isaiah 9:6-7, and etcetera
Christmas According to Immanuel: Grace and Truth Incarnate Has Come Near to Us, Come to Fully Live With Us, and to Fully Live Within Us. John 1:14-18
To Being Alive! To Be Able to Live! To be Living Into His Truth! “I Will Look Up to You, Immanuel, I Will Lift Up My Soul.” Psalm 25:1-15
Alive and Being Alive in Immanuel: Do We Know Where We are Going? Faith and Failure – Part One: Abram’s Faith. Genesis 12:1-9
Alive and Our Being Alive in God: Part Two – Our Inevitable Struggle Between Faith and our Failures. Genesis 12:10-20
From Faith to Failure and Back to Faith: Walk God’s Pathway Back to Wellness. Proverbs 3:5-8
Are We Going to Celebrate, Praise God, for What He Has Already Done for Us in 2022? Why Does Anyone Anticipate or Confidently Expect, to Celebrate God’s Grace in this Coming Year? Isaiah 63:7-9
“A Sermon in Shoes.” Aligning Our NEW New Year’s Resolutions With The Bible. Ecclesiastes 12:9-14
We Are Each a “Sermon in Shoes”: Our Acknowledging The Vine: Recognizing the Fruit God Produces in Our Lives. John 15:1-8
Are We Thinking About Our Being “A Sermon in Shoes?” Of Discerning the ‘Fruitful’ Direction of Our Thoughts? Psalm 139:23-24
We Are All A Sermon in Shoes – “Coram Deo” – Our Living Into the Abundance of Our Lives in the Presence of Our God Who Is Our Savior. 1 Corinthians 3:1-4
“Coram Deo” – Living Our Lives in the Presence of God. Why is Our Spiritual Maturity Important? 1Corinthians 3:1-4
“Coram Deo” Living Our Lives in the Presence of Christ Who is Our Savior: Six Biblical Essentials For Christian Maturity. Selected Verses Hebrews 12
Being A Sermon in Shoes: Living Out Our Lives Walking, Wearing the Sandals of our Rabbi Jesus: Walking by Faith Upon His Straight, and Narrow Path. Matthew 7:13-14
The Divine Order of Things: Seeking the Lord Who Is our God: Walking, Living, Upon the Straight and the Narrow Path. Matthew 7:13-14
Asking Ourselves the Easy and Hard Questions About Walking Upon the Broad or Straight and Narrow Paths. Matthew 7:13-14
Daring to ask ourselves the Question: Take the Broad Road or Narrow Road, – Is Salvation Easy? Matthew 7:13-14
Are We Asking Ourselves the Hardest Questions? Broad Road to Narrow, Do We Know How to Move Past all of our “Epic” Failures? Hebrews 4:15-16
We Are Not Defined by Our Failures! Begin by Letting Go of Self and Move thy Life Into Christ. 2Corinthians 13:5-9
Whether Living a Mindset of Success or Living a Mindset of Failure: Living Into a Mindset of Spirit, of His Life, His Peace. Romans 8:5-8
Proverbs 21:20-21 > The Great Single Minded Christian Pursuit of Success.
My Success Reframed by God: “I Will Surely Be Blessed Even Though (____) Because The Lord Is All I Ever Need.” Psalm 23
“Oh, that I had the Wings of a Dove! My Soul would fly away and be at rest, My Heart, so to fly far away from the raging “Tempest” in My Life!” Psalm 55:1-8
Our Time Alone With God. Jesus, with His Sleeping Disciples in the Garden of Gethsemane. Luke 22:39-46
Marking out our Pathways to Solitude. “Alone Time,” Making Time with God, Having our Time with God. Luke 5:14-16
What if we are Contemplating Falling Out of Love with God? We Desire No time alone with God? Our Preference? We will devote No more time for God. Psalm 13
Is there Christianity without our Living, Loving, the Life of Christ? John 13:34-35
What is the Witness of Our Churches? Churches With No Heart for, Nor any Memory of their ‘FIRST’ Love for God? Revelation 2:1-7
Whatever You do for God, Do it All with Gusto! Because He “Anoints” Our Heads With Oil and All of Our Cups Overflow! Psalm 23:5, Ecclesiastes 9:7-10
God Anoints Our Heads With Oil, Our Cups Overflow: Our ‘Prayer Over Our Cups’, Our Understanding of the Oils: Its The Word of God. Psalm 119:33-40
“My Dear God, Great Instructor of My Life, My God, Teach Me Your Lessons for Living, So I Stay on the Right Course!” Psalm 119:33-40
Prerequisites for Purposeful Living: “Give Ear and Hear My voice, Listen and Hear My Speech.” Proverbs 2:1-5
Benefits and Value of God’s Wisdom. Proverbs Chapter 2
The Quickest and Most Courageous Way to Make an Attitude Adjustment. Hebrews 4:10-13
Attitude Adjustment: Our Leaving Matters in God’s Hands. Genesis 16
An Attitude Adjustment? How Can We Know ‘Goodness and Mercy Will Follow’ Us When We are Hurting? Psalm 23:6
Actually Leaving Matters unto God’s Hands: Making the Best Use of God’s Time. Ephesians 5:11-20
My Life is Under Pressure, My Faith is Under Pressure, “Even Though My Life is Being Torn,” I Will Make Time for God! James 1:2-4
Living Life Under Pressure: Dr. Jekyll, and Mr. Hyde and Our “Christianality.” Ephesians 4:17-24
Evidence God Is at Work in Our Lives. John 5:17
“Do You Really Want to be Made Well?” Surrender to God’s Healing in Your Life! John 5:1-9
5 Ways to Truly Engage, Enjoy Christ. Luke 24:28-35
Our Gracious Host Forever Following, and Our Vigilant Shepherd is Forever Keeping Us Safe Inside His Dwelling Place. Psalm 23:6
What Does it Mean to Really Walk with God in Faith? Genesis 5:21-24
And As Enoch First Did, How Are We to Walk in Fellowship with God? Genesis 5:21-24
Can I Walk in Faith with God Alone, Absent of any Community of Faith? 2Corinthians 5:11-15
For We Walk by Faith and Not by Sight. 2 Corinthians 5:6-10
What Is this Spiritual Gift of Faith? 1Corinthians 12:4-11
Growing Up to Become a Child – Descriptions of a Childlike Faith. Matthew 18:1-5
“Ambitious” Guests of Honor: Jesus Teaches About Humility and Service. Luke 14:7-14
Utterly Unconventional Love of God and Saint Valentine’s Day. Ephesians 3:17-19
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling: My Reflections on the Sure Love of God on Valentine’s Day. Ephesians 5:22-32
Our Lives For the Sake of the Gospel. Philippians 1:12-14.
“Stones of Remembrance!” God’s Call to Remember Revival. Joshua 4:4-7, 19-24
Are we Looking Through Heaven’s Open Door? 10 Reasons We Should Believe in Heaven. Revelation 4:1-4
A Comforting Question, Thought, For Today: Scripturally Speaking, What Do We Believe Heaven is Like? John 14:1-6
Blessings From God’s Word: Bless Me and Revive Me, O’ God. Make Your Face to Shine Bright Upon Me, Your Servant. Psalm 119:129-136
Asking Ourselves the Hard Questions, Preparing for Lent, How Is God’s Power Made Perfect in All of Our Weaknesses? 2 Corinthians 12:7-10
Lenten Preparation for Repentance: When Our Defenses Crumble, Where Will We Run to take Refuge? Psalm 11
Ash Wednesday: Deciding, Will We Ever Consent to Give Any Living Hope to Our Ailing and Hurting Hearts? Joel 2:12-14
20/20 Hindsight. The “Right Ways” and The “Wrong Ways,” All the “Ways” that Seem So Right to Us. Proverbs 14:11-13
Psalm 46 Be Still and Ponder Upon the Importance of How We Each View God.
What is God Like? He is Merciful and Gracious, Slow to Anger, Abounding in Steadfast Love, in Goodness, and Truth. Exodus 34:5-9
Loved by and Belonging to God, the Giver of Law and the Giver of Liberty. Exodus 20:1-2
What does it mean for us to have no other gods before God? Exodus 20:1-3
The Second Commandment: Have or Make No Image Engraved or in Mind. Exodus 20:1-4
The Fourth Commandment: Our Rest, Our Witness. Remember the Sabbath. Exodus 20:8-11
“It is For God Alone My Soul Waits in Silence.” Psalmists Invitation to Pray a Prayer of Rest for Our Sabbath Days. Psalm 62.
For Grace to Grow Up: What is God’s Greatest Desire for Us and Our Lives? Psalm 139:13-18
Honoring Parents, Honoring God. Exodus 20:12
What Does it Really Look Like to ‘Honor Your Father and Mother’? Exodus 20:12, Deuteronomy 5:16
Living our Life and Honoring Our God, Living Our Life, Respecting, Honoring Generations of our Families, Honoring and Respecting Our Grand Parents. Proverbs 17:6
Our God is Truly an Awesome God: We Are All Fearfully and Wonderfully Made. Genesis 1:27, Psalm 139:14
Question for Today: What Does it Mean Today to Love Our Neighbors as We All Love Ourselves? Mark 12:30-31 [28-34]
“Jesus Loved Even Me.” 1 John 4:7-10
Pondering the Word of God: What Does it Mean For Us to Say, and to Believe and to Also Act Upon, ‘God Is Love’? 1 John 4:7-8?
Distant or Delighted? Not Feeling the Love of God? How About Learning to See Jesus With a Smile? 1 John 3:1-3
Jesus Christ is Able to Save Completely Because He Has Permanent Priesthood. Hebrews 7:23-25
A Psalm of Life: It is Never All About You, Neither Will It Ever Be All About Me. Hebrews 7:23-25
In Heaven He Stands: The Only Psalm of Life, Christ Jesus. Hebrews 7:23-25
What Happens When We Think Precious Thoughts about Jesus? Romans 12:1-3
Spiritual Transformation: A Hope Filled Spiritual Mindset. 1 Peter 1:13-16
Becoming Like Christ: Steps Towards Spiritual Freedom. 2 Corinthians 3:17
Seeking, Growing Intimacy in Your Relationships. Deuteronomy 4:29-31
Our Love’s for God’s Most Generous Expression: Our Learning, Growing, Living, Doing, in the Family of Faith. Hebrews 13:1-3
Serving God and Blessing Neighbors, Should be a Family Affair. Psalm 128
Spiritual Perception:”The Word of the Lord Was All Too Rare in Those Days.” 1 Samuel 3:1-10
Hearing God’s Voice? 1 Samuel 3:1-10
Studying, Meditating, Pondering Upon Ways We Can Hear from God Regularly. Habakkuk 2:1-4
Tune My Ears, God! I Will Choose to Listen and Believe the Voice of Truth. John 10:1-5
The Compelling Truth: What is the Importance of Family Devotions? Deuteronomy 6:4-9
Whether We Believe It or Not, God Does Have Incredible Plans for Us! Jeremiah 29:10-14
Could Jeremiah 29:11 Have A Far, Far Deeper Meaning, Truth for Us Today? Jeremiah 29:8-14
God’s Plan For Us All: We Should Each Come to Know God, As God Knows, Us. 2 Peter 3:8-9
Let Us All Give Thanks To God For Our Foundation of Hope! Colossians 1:3-8
God’s Justice In Jesus: The Greatness of Grace Is Reflected in Our Salvation from Sin. Romans 3:21-26
A Ransom Paid in Full: Reflecting, Understanding, the Justice of God. Matthew 20:24-28
I Have a Testimony! Why Is the Approaching ‘Lamb of God’ So Significant to Me? John 1:29-34
Hosanna! It Is Our Palm Sunday! Is Our Jesus Our Center or Periphery of Life? John 12:12-19
Jesus’ Triumphal Entry! Our Great Expectations? What About A King Paraded on the back of a Donkey? Matthew 21:1-11
What is Redemption? Important Meaning for Christians from the Bible. Romans 8:18 (22-23)-25
Where the Hurt and Healing Collide, There is A Wounded Healer’s Heart. There is a Savior: Jesus! Isaiah 53:1-6
Jesus is Washing His Disciples Feet: Healing is in our Becoming a Servant. John 13:1-17
“O’ Come, All Ye Faithful, Joyful and Triumphant. O’ Come, Let us Adore Him. Him Who is the Christ, Our Lord!” Matthew 26:36-45
Will The Cross Open Wide Our Eyes Too? The Centurion’s Unexpected Confession: His Declaration Of Jesus’ Innocence. Luke 23:44-49
Come! Please Look For Yourselves! To Witness The Stone is Now Rolled Away, Testify Death Is Now Utterly Defeated! Luke 24:1-8
Are The Disciples Asking Themselves: How Can We Know and Can We Trust God Will Keep Us in His Perfect Peace? John 20:19-23, Isaiah 26:1-4
Will My God Ever Give Up On Me As I Have Given Up on Him? Luke 22:54-62
Remember The Root Command: We Are All Rooted in Christ, Unto Each Other: Abiding in Love into a Hurting World. Colossians 1:1-8, John 15:15-17
Affirming Other’s Doubts, Receiving, Answering the Hard Questions About Our Lord’s Resurrection, Are All Very Necessary Steps Forward Towards Guiding Others unto Belief in Jesus. John 20:24-29
When We Feel Stuck, When We Are Not At All Convinced We Can Still Make a Difference With Our Life. John 21:15-19
God’s Gift of Grace For Every Failure. John 21:15-19
Becoming More Like Christ; Comfort and Encourage: God Shows Through Our Experiences. 2 Corinthians 1:3-7
What Can Make Us All Whole Again? Only The Purifying Life Blood of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 1 John 1:7
Truly Living For Jesus: What It Means that “Your Life Is Hidden with Christ.” Colossians 3:3-4
When and If Someone Should Ask You: “Okay, Why Should I or Anyone Believe in The Resurrection of Jesus Christ?” 1 Corinthians 15:12-19
Communicating More Like Christ. Building Up the Kingdom of God. Ephesians 4:29-32
Are We Really Seeking To Be More Like Our Jesus? What About Seeking After, About Loving, Our Unsaved Friends? 2 Corinthians 5:16-21
Valuing Self, Others, More Like Jesus: Are We Recognizing The Truest Value We All Have To the Kingdom of God? Mark 6:7-13
Living the Risen Life: Sharing God, Caring For Our Neighbors, Because God’s Heart Does Not Stop With Us. Colossians 3:1-4
Do We Have Any Earthly Idea How to Be Satisfied in God? Psalm 119:57-64
The Single Minded Pursuit of Unholy Discontentment, and Dissatisfaction. Pursuit of Emptiness Without Christ. Ecclesiastes 2:1-11, 24-26.
How Can I Be Faithful When I am Struggling With Discontentment? Ecclesiastes 2:20-25
What Does it Mean for those who are Unsaved, Us as Christians that God Is Available and that God is Accessible? Psalm 90
For God’s sake, and their own, why is it such a great idea for everyone to keep on thinking deeply about their faith? 2 Timothy 2:1-7
A Lesson about Wholly Refreshing Our Priorities: What is the significance to us to make, take time, with the Holy One? Mark 1:35-39
While We Are All Walking By Faith and Not By Sight, Are We Pondering any Prayers for Our Blindly Leaning, into Our Never to be Seen God’s Equipping? 2 Corinthians 5:7
For God’s Sake, Let Us Speak! Testify! Witness! Let us Be Holy! For the Lord Our God is Holy. Leviticus 19:1-4
Holy God, Do We Truly Know What it Means to Be Holy as Our God is Holy? 1 Peter 1:13-21
Seeking and Finding the Disconnect in Our Connection with the Lord Our God. Matthew 6:31-34
Can We Give Any Timely Answer: What About the Kingdom of God? Mark 1:14-15
Today’s Legitimate Dose of Life’s Reality: When God is Excluded from our Life, All Our Things Are Vanity. Ecclesiastes 1:1-11
Where Can We Find Hope if ‘All Is Vanity’ According to Ecclesiastes? Ecclesiastes 1:1-11
Finding the Courage to Be Different. John 15:18-19
Abundantly Prayerfully Exceeding Your Expectations: Expecting Infinitely More From God. Ephesians 3:20-21
Simply Learning How to Live! Simply Learning How to Serve Others with Love. Romans 12:10-13
A Lifestyle of Urgency. Acts 20:22-24
Authentic, Transparent Christian Living and Ministry. Acts 20:18-27
Wisdom of the Wiser: What God Chooses to Accomplish His Will. 1 Corinthians 1:26-31
The Gift of Godly Friends. Acts 27:1-8
What Might Jesus “Make” of Our “Mother’s Day?” Mark 3:31-35
Do We Really ‘Feel’ What This Means Anymore: “We Love Because He First Loved Us?” 1 John 4:17-21
Today’s Choice: We Can All Fully Give Up, Or We Can All Fully Rely on God Who is Supposed to be Number One. 2 Corinthians 1:8-11
If Hope Does Not Disappoint Us, Why Then Are Christians Disappointed All the Time? Romans 5:3-5
Where Exactly Is Our Hope Placed? Temporary Centrality of Our Hope Only In Ourselves. Proverbs 11:4-8
Soaking Ourselves in Envy or in God: Worship Perspective of God’s People. Proverbs 23:15-19
How Can We Have an Eternal Mindset Here on Earth? 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
“Come Holy Spirit, and Gift Unto Us a Prayer to Live With Eternity in Mind” Ecclesiastes 3:9-13
The One Test Proving We Love God. John 14:15-24
God’s Ageless Grace Brings Purpose. 2 Timothy 1:8-12
God’s Dress Code: Tattered Rags to His Righteousness Zechariah 3:1-5
Sin Tattered Rags to Righteousness: Praying For Our Unsaved Loved Ones. Colossians 3:12-14
Homeless Rags to His Righteousness: Our Prideful Responses to the Gospel. 1 Corinthians 1:26-31
Staying Faithful Unto the Gospel in a World Which Has Long Lost Its Way. Isaiah 5:18-24
Did The Holy Spirit Empower Only 12 Disciples On The Day Of Pentecost? Acts 2:1-13
Why (and How) Should We Pray the Names of Our God? Psalm 46:10-11
When Jesus Points and Commands; “Get into the Boat!” and Guides Us Straight Into and Through a Storm. Mark 4:35-41
Is God Worthy of All Our Devotion? Isaiah 6:1-8
God Will Keep You In Perfect Peace Those Whose Minds are Steadfast. Isaiah 26:1-4.
Are We So Confident in God that We Will Sing the Goodness of God in An Exuberant Earth, in Our Lifetimes? Psalm 27:13-14
Pondering: “In The Beginning God Created the Heavens and the Earth.” Genesis 1:1-2
Out Of The Darkness: “God Said” Let There Be Light, Let There Be Day One. Genesis 1:3-5
“and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord,” Just Who Do We Say Jesus Is? John 1:1-5
When We Need a Friend. Growing in Our Friendship with the Holy Spirit. Genesis 14:13-16
Born of God: Our Believing, Receiving and Rejecting the Light. John 1:9-13
Being Anointed and Taught by the Holy Spirit of God. 1 John 2:20-21
With or Without God in the World? With or Without the Christ in the World? With or Without the Holy Spirit in the World Today? Psalm 49
Authentically, Genuinely, Faithfully, Following God and Graduating Into Our God’s Life Long Desires for Us. Proverbs 19:20-21
“God, How May I Know What Your Will For My Life Is?” John 7:16-19
To Whom Shall We Go? John 6:60-69
How Can We Use All Our Creative Talents to Thank and Glorify God? Psalm 116:12-19
How Well Are We Dealing With Indwelling Sin? Romans 7:14-16
The “I” Problem. Romans 7:14-25
What a Long-Suffering and Gracious and Restorative God we Each Pray To. Hosea 6:1-3
Our Courage and Our Compassion to Do the Will Of Him Who Sent Us, To Actually Accomplish All of His Work. John 4:34-38
Best Fatherly Practices, Learning From His Examples: “Our Father, Who Art in Heaven, Will You Reveal Who You Are?” Matthew 6:7-13
Do You and I Truly Know The One Thing Satan Really Desires to Take from Us? Job 1:6-12
Do You or I Know the One Good Thing Which God Desires of The Shape of Our All Too Human Hearts? Psalm 78:65-72
Governor Pilate, The Gathering Mobs, Almighty God: Please Choose This Day What You Will Do Now With My Jesus! Luke 23:13-25
We Are Not Quitters Because We Are Always Guarded By the Power of God. Hebrews 10:26-31 (Verse 29)
Another Reminder About Things That Too Often Seem Too Good To Be True. (Genesis 3:1-6)
Pushed To, Into and Far Beyond Our Limits of Belief: Our Obedience unto God, Our Faith and Our Trust In God. Genesis 22:1-14
When We Do Withhold Nothing From God, What Does God Give Back To Us? Genesis 22:12-18
God Will Make A Way When There Seems To Be No Way Though Your Dreams are Shattered and Your Faith Is Being Shaken Down to its Very Roots. Matthew 11:2-3
Beautiful Lessons in Love from Song of Solomon. Song of Solomon 1:1-4
Personal Evangelism. “Father Abraham said Unto His Most Trusted Servant, By God, Go Forth and Take a Bride For My Son.” Genesis 24:1-9
Personal Evangelism: Are We Praying For Our Greatest Expectations of God to be Successfully Met? Genesis 24:10-14
About Abraham’s Legacy of Faith and Obedience: Do We Have Even .01% of What It Takes Today? Genesis 25:7-11
Your Daily Prayer: A Prayer to help us Refocus Our Thoughts back onto God. Philippians 4:8-9
Does God Care About My Feelings? Psalm 137
Do Not Apologize for Existing! Let Us Have A Conversation About Suicide! Psalm 13
Standing Around the Lords BBQ Grill, Sitting at the Feast Table of the Lord: Celebrating and Seeking God through the Holy Scriptures. Matthew 4:1-4
“Rather he delights himself in the teachings of the Lord and reflects on His teachings day and night.” Psalm 1
A Prayer for Strength to Defend the Faith – Your Daily Prayer. Jude 1:3-4
Authentic Christian Friends Are…? Proverbs 17:17
Some Subtle Biblical Suggestions for the Cultivation of True Friendships. Proverbs 18:24
If We Are The Body of Christ, The Church: And Seeking God Through Our Community? Hebrews 10:19-25
The Cure For Our Troubled Hearts. John 14:1-4
How Can We “Sit With the Sinners,” Model the Love of Jesus by Showing Mercy and Showing Compassion? Matthew 9:10-13
Our Friendship With the Holy Spirit. Psalm 25:14
By the Word of God: Renewing Our Hearts of Worship. Nehemiah 8:5-6
Be Still My Soul, Be Still My Heart! Truly Be Still and Truly Trust God. Psalm 46:10-11
The Hopeful, Hope-Filled Truth of the Timeless Verse “For Everything There Is a Season.” Ecclesiastes 3:1
Where do we run, who do we turn to, when our own thoughts go negative? 1 Samuel 27:1
Envision: The Path Toward Rejoicing. Philippians 4:4
What Does Your Righteousness Look Like Out in Public? Matthew 5:17-20
Hardest Things to Do as a Christian? John 17:13-19
The Power of Our Proper Thinking. Philippians 4:4-9
Growing, Maturing, to Look More Like Jesus – (2 Corinthians 3:15-18)
What Does It Mean That We Are All “Image Bearers”? Genesis 1:26-27
A Witness to the Faith. A Testimony, Theology for Our Life. Acts 26:25-29
No Condemnation in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1
Loving Our Neighbors. Living Life: the Revealed Irresistible Inescapable Light of Christ. Matthew 5:14-16
Are We Too Accustomed to Loving, Living, the Darkness? John 3:19-21
My Light, My Strength, My Defense, The Song of My Life. Isaiah 12:1-6
Heart of a Servant: About Exposing the Sin of Our Partiality. James 2:8-9
The Truest Hope of Resurrection Life. 1 Corinthians 15:45-49
We Don’t Quit, We Don’t Lose Heart Because of the Life Of Jesus In Our Mortal Bodies. 2 Corinthians 4:7-15
What Makes Us Forget Our Home, Our Life With God, Our Living Like Savior Christ? Deuteronomy 8:11-16
How Does Jesus Encounter Us in Our Everyday Lives? 1 Kings 19:11-13
The Spiritual Lessons From Elijah: Drawing Closer To God. 1 Kings 17
A Daily Prayer for All Us Pretenders. Romans 12:9-10
A True Servants Heart: Removing our Façade; How to be Rich, be Respected, How to be Genuinely and Truly Alive. Proverbs 22:4
Why Are Christians Told Not to Look Down on the Young? 1 Timothy 4:12
What Does the Bible Verse ‘Order My Steps’ Mean? Psalm 119:133 (129-136)
The Awe Inspiring Power of Everyone Doing Something Small. John 6:1-14
Can Faith Really Move Mountains? Mark 11:22-25
Ready to Respond, Holding, Standing Firm in the Faith. 1 Corinthians 16:13
Lovingly on Guard: Embracing God’s Spirit of Power, Love, Self Discipline. 1 Corinthians 16:13-14
Our Servants Heart: Let all that we do be done in His Love. 1 Corinthians 16:14
Drawing Near to God, Drawing Near to Each Other: Christian Community is so Critically Important Even Today. Hebrews 10:19-25
Desperate for Community: Building Lasting Bridges to God’s Kingdom. Matthew 25:31-46
Hearth and Home and Churches and Community: the Gathering Places For Everyone Under Heaven. John 14:1-6
In Community With God: God’s Heart for meeting with His children- David. Psalm 16
In Community With God: God’s Heart for His Meeting with all His Children: Gideon. Judges 6:11-18
Face to Face and Friend to Friend and Neighbor to Neighbor: God’s Heart to Meet with Moses. Exodus 33:7-13
This Needs to be Revealed: it’s God’s Heart to Meet with His Children: the Woman Caught in Adultery. John 8:7
He’s Reaching Out and Touching His Children: God’s Heart to Meet with John on Patmos. Revelation 1:17-19
Jacob’s embarrassing unawareness of the Lord’s Presence in his Place? Genesis 28:16-17
“Behold, Thou Desirest Truth in the Inward Parts” Lies Sin Keeps Telling Us. Psalm 51:1-11
Church Want Ad: Currently Seeking Kingdom Leadership; God is Seeking Role Models of Christian Maturity. Titus 2:1-15
“You and Me, God and Jesus!” What Does Real Spiritual Leadership in our Marriage Look Like? Genesis 2:18-25
Helping our Spouses through their Seasons of Stress. Ephesians 5:21-33
“In Sickness and In Health” Our God is our Only Strength in Our Marriage. 2 Corinthians 12:7-10
“‘Till Death Do Us Part.” What If We Were to Ask Our Spouses Where Our Marriages Were Exactly Right Now? 1 Corinthians 7:1-7
My God, My Spouse and Me: All He Asks of us is this: “Love, Honor and Cherish” 1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Simply Pursuing God’s Heart: Love-based Simplicity. Colossians 3:12-14
Standing Before our Enemies, Being Kingdom Changers: Our Help Comes from God the Lord. 1 Samuel 17:32-37
“King Saul, I Simply Have No Need for Your Armor!” 1 Samuel 17:38-39
It’s the Voices of Truth, Too Good to Not Believe: It’s GOD! It’s Jesus! Only Voices Under Heaven Which Matter. 1Samuel 17:42-47
He is Yahweh Sabaoth: “The Lord of Hosts Our God who Goes Before Us!”1 Samuel 17:45-50
Today, Be Encouraged That the Lord Is “Not Slow to Fulfill His Promise.” 2Peter 3:8-9
The Success of Failure: Confidence through Suffering. Hebrews 10:32-39
Our Great Commission “All authority in Heaven and on Earth has now been given to Me. Therefore, Go forth and Make Disciples of All the Nations!” Matthew 28:16-20
Do We or Do We Not Hear, Have It On God’s Good Authority? Mark 1:21-28
Why Jesus said there is only One Way for us to Get to Heaven? John 14:5-6
“I Am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life” – What Jesus Really Meant. John 14:1-7
Do We Make the Most of Our Time? Ephesians 5:15-16
Our True Completeness is in Jesus: In the Time We Each Spend in Creating and Having Relationship, not Stuck in Religious Rituals. Colossians 2:20
In Christ Alone, Signs of Our Times: Getting that Real Grip on Faith and on Righteousness. Romans 4:9 – 12
Jehovah My God, Restore Unto Me the Joy of thy Salvation, Uphold a Willing Spirit Within Me. Psalm 51:10-12
A Real Heart Scratcher: Why Do We Believe In and Follow Jesus Christ? John 7:37-39
Only His Truth Delivers! Only His Truth Protects! Only His Truth Will Be Declared! Only By God’s Truth Are We Each Being Transformed! Psalm 3
Just to Remember the Works of God, to Remember God as God Remembers Each of His Children! Psalm 77:11-13
There is Only One Truly Faithful God. Psalm 36:5
The Devil Defanged. 1 John 3:7-8
“Blessed Be the Lord, My Rock, Who Preserves and Prospers His People, and Who Trains My Hands for War, My Fingers for Battle!” Psalm 144:1
God Longs for Us to Know His Voice. Jeremiah 33:1-3
From the Very Beginning, It Was Our Always Knowing About God’s Loving, and Creative Presence. Genesis 1:1-5
The Heights and the Depths of the Presence of God. Genesis 1:20-23
God’s Creation is Bringing Us God’s Covenant Message of Life and Peace. Genesis 8:11
Our Submission unto God’s Covenant Promises: Ready-Set-Go, or Debate? Genesis 15:9-10
“I’m Springing Forward and Falling Back.” A Prayer to Help Me Evaluate, and to Reset My Priorities- Psalm 90
A Prayer to Living with Intention, to Live With Vulnerability, to Approach The Throne of God with Confidence. Hebrews 4:14-16
Jesus’ One True Great Compassion: Hearing, And Approaching, Living Among, Feeding and Caring About The Vulnerable. Matthew 14:13-21
As An Eagle Stirs Up Its Nest, Hovers Over its Young, Spreads Out its Wings Caring for its Young – God Cares too! Deuteronomy 32:1-14 (verses 10-14)
Being Fed and Nourished in the Most Unlikely Way. God is Always Going to Be Alongside of the Brokenhearted. 1Kings 17:1-6
As God Ordained it, As God Willed It: To Go Far Out of Our Ways to Reciting the ABC’s of the Gospel. John 6:35-38
Walking All Those Dead-End Streets, Trusting in God Through Every Fresh Start and Restarts. Ecclesiastes 2:1-3
The God Who Commands, Sends Us, To Rebuild The Walls. Nehemiah 4:6
Relating to God: That Thanksgiving Factor and Today’s Christian Effort. Psalm 50:22-23
“Someone get me out of here on dove wings; I want some peace and quiet.” Psalm 55:1-8
Joy In Christian Community: Being Thankful for People! Philippians 1:3
A View Under His Wings The Ultimate Father-Son Relationship. Psalm 91:4
Giving Our Thanks: Appreciating our View of God’s Creation. Psalm 104:24
Thanks Be To God, We May Be Lonely But We Are Never Alone! Psalm 27:10
All Thanks be to God for the Poor in Spirit Living Among us. Matthew 5:3
Thanks be to God for the Open Door into Eternal Salvation and Outwards to Kingdom Service. Revelation 3:7-8
Giving Our Thanks to God: How Can We Model the Love of Christ through Being Considerate? Philippians 2:1-4
All My Gratitude to God for His Gift of the Ungrateful Among Us. Luke 6:35
Give Thanks to God for His Gift of Grace which Transforms our Lives. Titus 2:11-14
Thanks To God We Will Always Have a Reason to Be Thankful! Psalm 28:7
Thanks Be To God – We Can Always Trust Him With Our Souls! Psalm 146
All Thanks to God for the Privilege of Allowing Me to Get to Know Even 1% of Him Through His Son Jesus Christ! Psalm 46
The Miracle Moment: The Experience of His Love Poured Out Within Us All. Romans 5:3-5
Advent: Are Any of Us Ready for The Coming, the Miraculous Experience of Truly Hearing His Words, of Truly Hearing His Coming Voice. John 8:47
The Coming Advent: To Know God is to Experience His Fullness of Peace. 2Thessalonians 3:16
The Coming Advent: Now is the Best Time to be Favoring All His Promises. 2 Corinthians 6:1-10
What Do We Believe of the Purpose of Savior Christ’s Advent? 1 John 3:4-6
An Advent Reflection: “On Them, the Great Light has Shone.” Isaiah 9:2-7
An Advent Reflection: Unto Us A Child is Born, and Unto us His Son is Given! And What Would He be Called Today? Isaiah 9:2-7
This Advent Reflection: About Being That Person With a Prophetic Vision of Our God In and Within Our Lives. Proverbs 29:18
Advent Reflection: “Behold! God Sends His Messenger! Prepare Ye, Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord!” Mark 1:1-8
Advent Prophet: if John the Baptist Called Out into the Gathered Crowds? Luke 3:1-14
Advent Reflection: How Sure Are We That We Would Listen to the Message of Our John the Baptist? Matthew 3:1
Advent Reflection: To Make Room, to Truly Put Jesus First this Christmas. Luke 2:6-7
Advent Devotional: God Made Room for Shepherds! God made Room for Prayers of Unspeakable Joy. Luke 2:10
Advent Reflection: Tis the Season for Us To Cling Tightly to What is Good. Romans 12:9-13
Advent Reflection: “Listen to What I Say; Praying for Peace Everywhere!” But Can We Each Really Pray Without Ceasing? 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
Advent Reflection: “For Unto Us An Answer is Provided For Our Suffering World.” Isaiah 9:6-7
Advent Reflection: In our God’s Gym, What is that Point for Our Suffering? Hebrews 12:4-11
Advent Reflection: A Mighty God And Hardships, Peace of God in the Chaos. John 16:31-33
Advent Reflection: As We Watch and We Wait as We Anticipate and Expect, What Exactly Are We Doing Anyway? James 3:13-18
Advent Reflection Does Mary Saying ‘Treasuring All These Things in Her Heart’ Speak to Anything About How We Reveal Christ Today? Luke 2:19
Advent Reflection: While We Wait For Him, Do We Know How To Say Why It’s Important To Draw Near To Him? James 4:7-10
Advent Reflection: Our Bringing The Gift of The Greatness of Our God Unto Others This Christmas. Luke 1:26-28
Advent Reflection: Whether its Read at Advent, At Christmas, and Always, God’s Word Never Fails! Luke 1:37
Advent Testimony: The Wonder and the Mystery of One Single Birthday. Luke 1:29-35
Advent Reflection: The Wonder of All Wonders, Miracle of All Miracles, the One True Mystery of All Mysteries! ! Luke 1:29-35
Advent Reflection: Something Truly Wonderful Happens When Your Heart Grows Three Sizes! Ezekiel 36:24-28
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