Yesterday, we celebrated Pentecost Sunday. Symbolically, we have begun our journey with the Holy Spirit. If you are newly saved, this might be the beginning of your journey with the Holy Spirit. Either way, this is an exciting opportunity. We have the living God living within us. All the work that …
Love Speaks Daily
Love Speaks Daily
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Salvation, It’s Not Complicated
Sometimes we beat up on ourselves about past mistakes and regrets. We get caught in a loop about an incident and get stuck trying to correct, erase, or compensate for it. The past can be a hindrance to future success. The past can also get in the way of experiencing God’s love, grace, and …
Hold to the Hand of Hope
Last week was a big week for us in this nation. We cracked the door open to police reform. As we listened to and reflected on the verdict, some of us held tightly onto our breath in disbelief that things turned out the way they did. Some of us remained cautiously optimistic. Some of us started …
A Love Song for Jesus
Eternity put a smile on my face from deep within where imprints of Alpha Omega touch the recesses of my soul Breath of life filtering O2 from CO2 carrying red rivers by way of tiny streams intersecting and connecting to organs, tissues, muscles, cells and my heart which beats only for Jesus This …
The Possibility of the Impossible
The tree lobster (Dryococelus australis or the Lord Howe Island stick insect) is an interesting insect. According to the Wikipedia, in 1920, the tree lobster was thought to be extinct. However, it was rediscovered in 2001. Although the tree lobster no longer lives on Lord Howe Island, its main …
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
How are you with making decisions? Are you a heavyweight or a lightweight? Do you look decisions in the face with confidence and boldness and choose wisely? Do you waver and get stuck in every single possible outcome; thereby, never making a decision? Do you capitalize on logic and experience to …
Chosen People
If you are a human being, you have stumbled. Stumbling is part of what we do as humans. We can’t help ourselves. We mess up. Sometimes we mess up and we keep going with little or no effect on our lives. Sometimes we mess up and change the course of our lives. Sometimes we mess up because we are …
How Can We Say Thanks?
In Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, Anne Lamott says that her two best prayers are “Help me, help me, help me” and “Thank you, thank you, thank you.” Today’s devotional builds on Lamott’s prayers. Many times, the word choice in biblical translation does not make much difference to the …
The Golden Door
As long as things remain profitable, they remain in a capitalist nation. Think of all the things that never seem to go away in our country - classicism, racism, sexism, homophobia, human trafficking, poverty, homelessness, etc. Could it be that somehow these things profit someone and …
