In the beginning, God created all things. His goodness, shalom, and loving presence covered all the earth. Relational harmony was the reality with God and within mankind. Beauty and peace reigned while the lion rested with the lamb. All was as it was meant to be....
Devotionals
Finding Your True Love this Valentine’s Day
A look at the life of the real Saint Valentine The real Valentine lived during the early first century. Valentine was a Roman Priest during Emperor Claudius' reign, who made a ruling forbidding Roman soldiers from getting married. The Emperor alleged that married...
God’s Heart for the Helpless
My Advocate in heaven made a way when there seemed to be no way. It was truly as if “He lifted me out of the miry clay and set my feet upon a rock”
Random Thoughts on Submission
Love ceases to be love when free will is taken out of the equation.
High Holy Days 2020
Is God at the core of your thoughts, actions, behaviors, and desires?
We Don’t Know What to Do…
I don’t know about you, but all the craziness that’s come in 2020 has tempted me to worry a lot. I keep wondering what I can do to change things, but feel completely powerless to do so. It seems like nothing I could do would make a bit of difference. I’d be completely...
How Twisting Words Destroys Relationships
In the last 5-10 years I've seen this happening not only in individual relationships, but on a societal level. Our nation has become so divided as we automatically assume evil motives on the part of anyone who disagrees with us. On social media people judge and...
Deadly Counseling
I'm so grateful that our churches seem to be waking up and responding better to domestic abuse these days. But for every church we see working on getting educated we see many more still resorting to counsel like this. Please continue to pray with us that our churches...
he makes all things new
Sometimes when we’ve suffered, we start to believe we will never overcome, but as you begin this new year (this new decade) my prayer for you is that you will find God’s goodness in the midst of your pain. He will make all things beautiful in his time and he will...
Facing Loss at Christmas
There are so many of you who will not have a merry Christmas this year. I’ve certainly been there. The holidays just seem to amplify all the losses we’ve experienced. Some of you may have to spend Christmas alone while your children spend the day with someone who...
Beautifully Broken
These days, when I think back on the statement I was asked to make about missing God’s best for my life, I realize that the exact opposite has been true. Only in brokenness was I made whole, and only in great loss did I truly recognize my desperate need that only He could fill.
shining Through the darkness
I can’t imagine a life without You—it would not be life at all! You have transformed my life—transferred me from the darkness and brought me into your marvelous light (Col.1:13). You have held me in times of despair and traded your strength for my weakness (2 Cor. 12:9). I bring you nothing, and You give me everything (Rom. 8:32).