Live The Life God Created You For
Do you ever feel so distant from God that you feel completely separated from his presence? You long for the connection you once felt to him or the fire that you see in others around you, but it feels like God is so far away from you. Guess who else felt this way? Jesus!
Jesus enters Jerusalem on a donkey on the day we remember as Palm Sunday. Mark 11:7-11 When they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks over it, he sat on it. 8 Many people spread their cloaks on the road, while others spread branches they had cut in the fields. 9 Those who went ahead and
Aren’t we supposed to ENJOY life? A friend of mine having a particularly frustrating day, texted me to ask “Aren’t we supposed to ENJOY life?”. I honestly was completely unprepared for the question, but it made me stop and think. Are we really here to ENJOY life? Is that why God has us here?
It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is
It seems every year we anticipate what the new year will bring, as if flipping the page on the calendar could SOMEHOW magically change our current existence. It seems so ridiculous, but every year we look forward to the new year and leaving the old behind. A fresh, new beginning! This is going to
Don’t hold onto anything so tightly that Jesus can’t take it from you. Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open. – Corrie ten Boom I think often we hold onto THINGS tighter than we hold onto our FAITH in God! Stop! Read it again. Are you holding
Sometimes we get way more concerned with the part of our Christianity that “shows” and not what actually lies beneath in our mind, heart and soul. An iceberg seems like it could be a fitting visual of our Christian walk with only 10% of the average iceberg peaking above the water. Icebergs range in
I sat in church last Sunday with all that is in the world rattling around in my head. I was desperately trying to focus on worship and the sermon. I knew our Governor was announcing new Covid restrictions on activities at that very moment. I was wondering about how this would affect the small
As you ramble on through life Brother, Whatever be your goal, Keep your eye upon the donut, And not upon the hole. Margaret Atwood This was a cute, little rhyme I came across that reminded me how easily we focus on our lack instead of our blessings. You may not spend any time thinking
Matthew 6:25-26 Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor
Would you be praising God for being unjustly prisoned and tortured? The story of imprisoned Chinese Pastor Chen Min Lin is the most powerful example I can think of to show us how to be thankful in the most desperate of circumstances. Pastor Chen was sentenced to 18 years in a brutal Chinese prison for
In such a tumultuous political scene as the current days of our election, it is easy to be overcome by fear and desperation. We must not be sucked into the negative narrative of the media who do not believe in our Almighty God. Dare I say they scoff at anyone who DOES put their
Phillipians 1:6 And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns. This scripture stopped me in my tracks the other day. I have heard it many times before, but this time was different. This
There are two stories in the Bible that remind me how differently I would behave compared to how the people in scripture reacted to God sparing them from a difficult situation. It reminds me that God is a whole lot more concerned with us becoming holy, than happy. He is more concerned with saving
Let me give a little scriptural context for where we are headed…. God directed Moses to lead the Israelites out of Egypt and centuries of slavery by CROSSING the Red Sea to safety. Exodus 14 [paraphrased] 10 the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians. They were terrified and cried out to the