Born of Fire
This has been an interesting week, mentally. A few days ago I was looking back in pictures I took a year ago, showing the effects of the drought on one of my childhood hangouts... My friend and I had gone on a hike, and ended up staring at what at one time was a popular …
I was reading in I Samuel about Hannah. She really had it hard. Having to share a husband, being tormented daily by the "other wife", and being barren... It just wasn't a good situation. One day she just has to get up and get by herself. She was in front of the temple, crying out to …
I am a person that likes to have everything in order, and definitely on time. Delays don't work well for me. I'm sure that delays don't work well for most people. So, when I was reading this week, I was struck by a delay, by none other than Jesus: Now Thomas, one of the Twelve, …
Yesterday, I had a God encounter, and it disturbed me... Still does... It was about 95 degrees out, I was comfortably in my car, pulling out of a shopping center parking lot. I was driving slow, as there were various people walking around me. As I was about to make the turn out, I was …
Continue reading "Things Not Adding Up: Need for Authentic Relationship"
to download a pdf copy of this message, click here: Have them make a chest of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high. Overlay it with pure gold, both inside and out, and make a gold molding around it… Then …
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. - Clayton Arnall
to download a pdf copy of this message, click here: You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the …
Continue reading "Becoming God’s People IV: Serving God; Serving Mankind"
to download a pdf copy of this message, click here: You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole …
Continue reading "Becoming God’s People III: Being God’s Treasure"
Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites. – Exodus 19:5-6 Dormant …
Continue reading "Becoming God’s People I: A Time of Transformation"
word choice Romans 8:38 (NIV) For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. I find …