Desperate for a miracle – Sick and tired of being sick and tired – Made up her mind to get to Jesus – among a host of other pithy sayings that I’ve heard trying to capture what’s going on in Luke 8. Particularly, preachers tend to zoom in rather quickly to the part where a [...]
Faith
32Moses said, ‘This is what the Lord has commanded: “Let an omer of it be kept throughout your generations, in order that they may see the food with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.” ’ 33And Moses said to Aaron, ‘Take a jar, and [...]
Recently, I read a thought-provoking article by John Ortberg called, “Your Hidden Curriculum,” found in the winter 2009 volume of Leadership Journal (a good journal I might add that can be found at Barnes & Noble). Below the title, Ortberg asks – “What do people learn from you about the Christian life? Sometimes it’s what [...]
I first read The Shack by William Young earlier this year. My husband, Shannon, had heard a preacher talking against the book and decided to check into it. He read the first chapter online and decided to buy the book. He and I read the book together and really enjoyed the story. Since then, we [...]
Last night, our pastor (Robert Barnes) had us to think of one situation in our lives in which we need God to move and change things. He then spoke about the power of Jesus to heal, deliver, conquer, save, love, create, etc. and asked us when we thought about that thing on Monday (today) to [...]
