believe, God, Jesus, prayer, trust
It has taken me nearly 30 years, but I’ve finally come to understand that everything is in a constant state of change. I understood a variation of that statement early on in my life. As a kid, I understood change happened every time I celebrated turning a year...
Bible, discipline, God, growing, Isaiah, sin
Sometimes life isn’t all roses. We struggle to make sense of things. We are afflicted – by self and by people and by circumstances outside of ourselves. We don’t always (ever?) understand why God allows or causes things to happen the way they do....
Bible, Ezekiel, God, Isaiah, John, Kingdom Vision, Revelation
Our pastor challenged us on Sunday to evaluate whether or not we have an accurate view of how holy God is. The implication is we tend to humanize God and lose awareness of how majestic and grand and wholly above us in rank and perfection He truly is. And when we are...
God, growing, love, meaning of life, spiritual growth
Certain words make me angry. Tolerance is one of those words. So is religion. And love. I’m bothered by these words because they are so often used incorrectly. Somewhere along the line people decided they could define these words however they want, but they...
2 Chronicles, Bible, Bible study, faith, trials
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again (as long as you keep reading it): the Old Testament is relevant TODAY. I’m 20 days behind on my read-through-the-Bible-in-a-year-chronologically plan. Impressive, no? I thought I’d have totally given...
