Isolation can steal our joy. Many Americans know what it’s like to be lonely, to feel isolated, unwanted, unappreciated, and unloved. The ember to be rekindled—even if not smothered by sin or wrong priorities—can still go out if it is isolated. Take a burning ember and push it to a far corner of a fireplace […]
Few things in this old world can steal your joy like…uh… this old world. It seems like a world of joy stealers, but is it really? Is your joy dependent upon circumstances? Of course, there are fears and terror. Apathy and anxiety. Pride and prejudice. Job losses. Bad economies at home and around the globe. Look […]
Ash Wednesday (February 10th) begins Lent 2016 and this year, my devotionals are called ReKindle. Have you ever felt full of joy, overwhelmed by God’s love for you, experienced total peace and contentment, and rejoiced in the wonder of what Jesus has done for you? Have you ever felt like it’s slipping away? Like you […]
I had occasion this week to be reminded of how many people suffer and yet will rejoice with those who rejoice. Their lives are marked by terminal illness, family members who need round-the-clock care, job loss, inability to find work as they’ve reached a certain age, painful treatments for incurable diagnoses, children and grandchildren who […]
Do you want to experience the joy of blooming where God plants you? To some of you, it must seem like I’ve gone underground. But ministry work has been occurring behind the scenes for both the ReKindle devotional series (beginning on Ash Wednesday February 10th) as well as preparing for a morning event for Lent presented by […]
Weary in our walk with God. Many of us know what it feels like. Rekindle for Lent this year. I’d be lying to you if I said that I never get discouraged or weary. My desire is to have a full tank of zeal every day but the truth is, I don’t. When God asked me […]
Bring it in 2016! * * * That’s my resolution. Step up my game. Ramp up my efforts. Press into the calling! What about you? * * * Here are 16 biblical ways to Bring It in 2016 from Hebrews 12 #1 Let the past go. Hebrews 12:1 “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such […]
It’s Christmas Eve and the miraculous hidden in the womb of a virgin named Mary would be a miracle revealed at His birth. The Incarnation—beginning as a fertilized egg—would become visible to a watching world in His birth. Although if they’d had ultrasound back then, He would have been there: The Son of God visible […]
What Jesus could not be as the pre-Incarnate Christ was to be personal to every man. What Jesus could not be as the Incarnate Christ was everywhere at once. The Incarnation was therefore critical to God’s expanding rule. Both personal and everywhere at once! Not as a geographical land conquering, but with Jesus as Lord […]
