Telling God No

Peter.  God love him. He is the disciple that I relate to most.  From the excessive pride, swearing he’ll never deny Christ, to letting his emotions dictate his actions, cutting off that guy’s ear who came to arrest Jesus, Peter is a relatable dude. After...

Who Do YOU Say I Am?

It’s a big week for Jesus.  You know, Easter and all that.  So, as long as we’re all thinking about Him to one degree or another, He’s got a question for us. (Actually, it was initially for Peter.  But it’s for you and me, too.) Jesus was...

Jesus is Praying For You Today

Prayer is good. Praying for each other is good. And I appreciate people who pray for me in the privacy of their own minds. But I am taken to a whole new level of honored when someone prays for me out loud in my presence.  I am humbled.  I am touched someone would take...

The Truth About God’s Promsies

Sometimes the Old Testament seems irrelevant.  I yawned my way through the dividing of the Promised Land among the tribes of Israel (Joshua 13-21).  And when I was just about to nod off, one gem of a verse caught my heart and made all that boring reading worth it....

Is That Too Much to Ask?

Do you ever wonder what God wants from you?  Honestly, I just wish He would spell it out in black and white sometimes. What’s that?  You say He did spell it out in black and white? In Deuteronomy 10:12-13, Moses says, “‘And now, O Israel, what does...