Ecclesiastes instructs us how to approach God. The emphasis is on The Value of Listening to God rather than speaking too rashly, too quickly, or too much. The danger in speaking too rashly, too quickly, or too much is we’ll look like and be a fool, whether we’re aware of it or not. [powerpress] Video…
We all need friends like Jesus. What a blessing it would be if we could all be friends like Jesus. In his book, Sacred Companions, David Benner, lists five elements in healthy friendships: love, honesty, intimacy, mutuality (offering reciprocal care) and accompaniment (taking an active interest in each other’s journey). Steve Macchia adds a sixth,…
I want to share with you today about The Value of Time. More specifically about the value and importance of recognizing what time it is in our lives; not in a chronological sense of, “It’s 9:00 am.” But in the more important sense of, “What time or season of my life am I in? What…
When I read this prayer over and over this week, what I thought is encouraging for all of us. It does not matter what baggage we are carrying with us. All we need to do is humble ourselves and come to God in prayer. He will be there for us. He will forgive us. [powerpress]…
Think how joyful it would be to live in a community or a nation where God was revered, where we didn’t worship idols of any kind, where God’s name was treated with respect, where everyone took a “snow day” every week to rest, reflect, worship, and enjoy time with important people. Where there was no…
While it’s easy to read right past a verse like Nehemiah 3:14 and to not even notice or take thought of it, I have a great deal of respect for Malchijah. I mean who wants to rebuild the Dung Gate which was the means of taking the city’s waste outside the walls for disposal? At…
Nehemiah is one of the best leaders in the Bible. He demonstrates the behaviors, beliefs, attitudes, and actions of a truly effective, spiritually mature, admirable, God-honoring leader. Nehemiah has a great deal to teach us about prayer, organization, work, responding to opposition and personal attacks, as well as about renewal and endurance, humility, servanthood, and…
What do you remember about angels and Jesus’ birth? At times it seems people remember or think more about what angels look like, rather than what they say. But angels are messengers and remembering what they’re communicating is far more important than trying to imagine what they look like. [powerpress] Video and full text available…
Looked at from lens of the whole of Matthew’s Gospel, Matthew 1:18-25 isn’t just a birth story, but the first example of a central issue in Matthew’s faith community and that issue is the relationship between keeping the letter of the law and living out the deeper meaning of the law. [powerpress] Video and full…