Time for a Tuesday Faith Check. The scripture for my time with God today was out of the book of Mark. It was the story of the woman who was healed of a hemorrhage that had plagued her for twelve years of her life. She heard that Jesus was going to be in her village and [...]
Archive for January, 2012
How’s Your Faith?
Posted in Formation, Grace, Hope on January 31, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Lessons Learned With a Paint Gun
Posted in Humor on January 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We have finally made it to the point in our remodel project to be able to put paint on the ceilings and walls. So I got the bright idea to try and find an airless paint rig. I put the word out and found a couple of folks who had one and would let me [...]
Fan It Back Into Flame
Posted in Formation, Grace, Hope on January 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Today, during my time of being present with God, I read the first chapter of 2 Timothy. As I read, Paul’s words reminded me of something we all need from time to time. He assured Timothy that he believed Timothy possessed strong faith. He shared that he had seen this faith in Timothy’s grandmother and [...]
Come Awake
Posted in Formation, Grace, Hope on January 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
One of my favorite current praise songs is Come Awake. When I sing this song, I am reminded how easily I doze off to what God is doing all around me. I become so distracted by the busyness of my life – doing good things – that I become numb to God’s activity, and even [...]
What Would the World Be Like If . . .?
Posted in Community, Formation, Hope on January 23, 2012 | 2 Comments »
In preparing for our devotional time last night, I ran across a quote from Lion and Lamb, by Brennan Manning. He said, What distinguishes the Christians whose faith is deep, burning, powerful, and luminous is . . . seriousness. Seriousness is not the opposite of joy but of superficiality. He then went on to use [...]
What If Jesus Were Our Only Focus?
Posted in Formation, Hope on January 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s Pray-As-You-Go Jesuit podcast reading was out of the Gospel of Mark. It was the account of Jesus having to get into a boat and push out into the water so that he could speak. We are told that people were coming from every region to see and hear him. In this particular account, there [...]
Who Has Your Heart?
Posted in Formation, Hope on January 18, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Who has your heart? Obviously, your literal heart is beating inside your chest. But what about the center of your being? When the Bible talks about the heart, it is referring to the deepest part of you – that part of you that only you and God truly knows (and by the way, God knows [...]
Make an Investment
Posted in Community, Formation, Hope on January 16, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I had an idea of what I was going to ramble on about today. I had to leave the house early to head to Lubbock and I left early on purpose in order to have time to stop by my new favorite coffee shop. As I drove, the sun was just beginning to come up [...]
Where Do You Encounter God?
Posted in Community, Formation, Grace, Hope on January 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Where do you encounter God? Is it at church? When you are there, do you sense God’s real presence? Or maybe you encounter God when you witness a breath taking sunrise. The colors and magnificence scream of an amazing God. Maybe for you, God can be found in the face of a child – their [...]
Seeing With God’s Eyes
Posted in Community, Formation, Hope on January 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I was reading an article written by a pastor in the early 1900′s last night. The title of the article by Percy Ainsworth is The Wilderness and the Sunrise. The overall theme of the article is the hope we have in Jesus. One of the statements Ainsworth made in the article has set me to [...]
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