Jesus says...
Seeking His Righteousness (self-control and food)
Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be yours as well. Read more…
Faith
Seeking His Kingdom (part 4)
Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be yours as well. -Matthew 6:3 This week seeking His kingdom before mine looks like swapping out a planned writing session for listening to a heart-breaking story and making space to let Read more…
Faith
Seeking His Kingdom (Part 3)
Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be yours as well. -Matthew 6:33 I didn’t want to go. I was warm and comfy in my quiet time corner, Bible and journal in my lap. It is cold outside, (at least for here in the Arizona Read more…
Faith
No One Takes It from Me
It had been a terrible morning. I had not dealt well with a child in the throes of the “terrible twos.” I had gotten very angry, lost control, been very harsh…violent, even. My intention had been to attend a gathering were my guilty, angry, wounded heart was fed truth and Read more…
Faith
Seeking His Kingdom (Part 2)
Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these will be yours as well. -Matthew 6:33 Thanks to countless church services and Bible studies (and my personal study), I have a lot of really great ideas about God, but my own functional thoughts about Him, how I relate to Read more…
Gratitude
Seeking His Kingdom (Part 1)
My verse for 2019 is familiar “Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well.” (Matthew 6:33 ) Easy to quote. Hard to practice. As I explore this verse, I discover places in my life that are still my territory, rather than the Read more…
Faith
Nothing on My Own
When the inevitable round of new-year-new-you articles and advertisements come out, my inbox fills with guilt-inducing, wishful-thinking, low-monthly-payment plans for transformation. Jesus has His own plan for change. He started His earthly ministry with the message: “change your thinking.” This is much more slippery to grasp than a five-step plan Read more…
Christmas
The Eleventh Day of Christmas
On the eleventh day of Christmas my True Love gave to me… eleven risen meetings! Our True Love who rose from the dead after dying as a pure, willing sacrifice for our sins expected skepticism regarding this resurrection, and provided ample evidence for it. Among the compelling body of reasons Read more…
Christmas
The Twelfth Day of Christmas
On the twelfth day of Christmas my True Love gave to me… twelve gates of heaven! This twelfth gift is one that bears more consideration that we tend to give it, unless someone dear to us is at the brink of death. Heaven! The place where no one cries or Read more…
Faith
Forgiving: an Act of Faith
Following Jesus in the everyday means living a life characterized by faith. Guys like Abraham demonstrated their confidence in what God says by packing up and leaving their homeland. I haven’t been asked to do that…at least not yet, but I have been invited to declare my citizenship in a Read more…