“We don’t know what to do…”
Almost since I found out I'm pregnant, a verse has been constantly before me, "We don't know what to do; we're looking to you." The Message, 2 Chronicles. 20:12. Though this verse is originally talking about facing an enemy, I think the thought is relevant--realizing...
Some verses that I can’t get off my mind…
"The Master, God, has given me a well-taught tongue,So I know how to encourage tired people. He wakes me up in the morning,Wakes me up, opens my ears, to listen as one ready to take orders.The Master, God, opened my ears, and I didn't go back to sleep, didn't pull the...
Taking a small sabbatical : )
Okay, I think everyone's heard, but for those who haven't....We're going to be parents! Yeah! We're so excited! However, I've been so nauseous lately that I can't read or write, which makes posting here really difficult. So until I begin to feel better, which should...
Relationship vs. Law, Part. 2: Christ’s death means nothing?
As I continue to read Galatians, I find myself filled with heartbreak, while at the same time filled with joy as the burden of being “good enough” is slowly lifted. Heartbreak, because Paul writes that when I live as if “justification were through the law…,” then I am...
Relationship vs. Law, Part. 1
We’ve got to walk right and talk right and sing right and pray right, on the battlefield…” Do we? Do we really? Is that all there is to being a Christian? Being right? Sadly, many of us believe this children’s song and consciously or unconsciously we take it as...
Faithfulness…
"Faithfulness to Jesus means that I must step out even when and where I can't see anything (see Matt. 14:29). But faithfulness to my own ideas means that I first clear the way mentally. Faith, however, is not intellectual understanding; faith is a deliberate...