Leap of Faith
When Jesus calls you to take a leap of faith, it can be daunting. But I promise you, He will show himself strong on your behalf.
God is Love
The Lord is love. His kindness is beyond our understanding. I spent so many years thinking I would never be able to measure up to some sort of “churchy” ideal, thinking of that as a picture of what God wanted me to be. I was pretty far from it in our very small conservative…
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Justice for the Sheep Fallen into the Ditch
If we can help a sheep fallen into the ditch, how much more should we help what was created in God’s image? Like Jesus, we are called to proclaim liberty to captives, sight to the blind, and freedom to the oppressed. The Sheep Fallen Into the Ditch “What man is there among you who has…
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Permission to Relax and Rest
What are you striving for lately? Maybe you need to hear what God said to me this morning. You can relax and rest… seriously! He’s got this.
Bitter-Sweet Goodbye
We’re all too familiar with God bidding us away from bad things. We struggle with depravity but accept His call with excitement to walk by the Spirit (Galatians 5:16-24). We leap for joy out of darkness into His marvelous light (1 Peter 2:9). But when He says to let go of something good, it’s a bitter-sweet…
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Where is God? (SNEAK PEAK!)
We live in a broken world—one with a mixture of hope and fear, peace and discord, health and sickness, wealth and poverty, love and hate. In the aftermath of tragedy, people ask, “If God is good and cares for me, why does He allow harm? Where is justice for evil? Where is healing for my…
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7 Keys to Living an Abundant Life with God
Jesus said, “I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly” (John 10:10 NASB). These seven keys to living an abundant life with God boil down to this… Your every day (and every moment) relationship with God is the greatest blessing. I could list passages for days on this, but thought seven was a good number! 😉 Read…
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Fulfill the Great Commission, Part 1
In a cabin nestled in the old fir-covered mountains of the North-West, a missionary asks for prayer. Surrounded by new and old friends, he fights back tears and shares that the Chapra Amazonian people asked for a translation of the Bible in their language. David Skinner has overcome threats, sickness, and imprisonment to fulfill the great…
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What is God’s Mercy?
We are a mixed up people, wanting justice and mercy at the same time. When a friend suffers at the hands of another, we demand the offender pay for what they did. But when our mistakes surface or we’re caught when we hoped to get away with something, we plead for pardon by the ones…
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Who is Forgiven Much Loves Much
Who has seen their need for God’s mercy and grace? If we glimpsed our vast debt to the King and how greatly He’s forgiven us—could we not love Him? He looks for who will recognize the gulf He spanned to adopt us in adoration. God proclaims over you, “My child, all your sins are forgiven,” canceling the…
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