“Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.” – Proverbs 4:23 As a kid, was there anything better than the month of June? When the calendar flipped to “May” excitement started to bubble, and as the month crept on each day felt like a[…]
“People can think correctly and behave rightly and worship politely and still live badly–live anemically, live individualistically self-enclosed lives, live bored and insipid and trivial lives.” – Eugene Peterson, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places The morning readings this week have taken me to the book of Hosea. A book[…]
Jesus wants more than good deeds. He wants our hearts – The Resevoir I try and let my morning devotional times be opportunities to let truth set my day, but this morning really made me pause. A devotional I’m reading asked about what a “loveless marriage” looks like. My counseling[…]
“To be loved is to be changed” The love of God is the need of every human being on the planet. Without it, we aimlessly wander trying to fill a hole that seems un-fillable. We try to fit a bunch of other things in it thinking we will be fulfilled,[…]
“To be loved is to be changed” I saw a cartoon recently that showed a bunch of animals walking and observing all the humans closed off in their home habitats. The caption under the picture said, “so this is what it feels like to be in a zoo.” Like many[…]
The Lord is king! He is robed in majesty. Indeed, the Lord is robed in majesty and armed with strength. The world stands firmand cannot be shaken. Your throne, O Lord, has stood from time immemorial. You yourself are from the everlasting past. The floods have risen up, O Lord.[…]
“Oh, thank GOD —he’s so good! His love never runs out. All of you set free by GOD, tell the world! Tell how he freed you from oppression, then rounded you up from all over the place, from the four winds, from the seven seas. Some of you wandered for[…]