Earlier this year, “it is finished” looped on replay in my mind in the context of the dead relationships in my life. For the last several years, I had been trying to maintain, revitalize, pump up and get things started in various relationships. It took me a while to realize that God was separating meContinue reading "It is finished."
Psalm 51: Repentance vs. Apology
Repentance is so much more than an apology. It's not something that works by picking and choosing elements that suit you - as The Five Languages of Apology suggests.
Quote: Meister Eckhart on Love
Love is as strong as death, as hard as hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul. She suffers nought to come near her, that is not God nor God-like.
It doesn’t even matter
I'm not a popular person in my family. Not well liked at all. I used to think I was ostracized because I spoke up for myself, which opened the family to scrutiny. Now I know it is because I spoke up for myself. I acted on faith and actively freed myself from bondage. When IContinue reading "It doesn’t even matter"
Pop Culture vs. The Bible: For the Sake of His Praise
God is not interested in sharing His glory with others. That means you – He is not interested in sharing His glory with you. Believers cannot allow others to think God is not the benefactor of our abundance, knowledge, success, and power. Anyone watching your life, should see God and give Him praise. {Click on View Original Post to read whole blog.}
Pop Culture vs. The Bible: Intro
Our culture is saturated with innumerable man-adjusted illustrations, images, and suppositions about Biblical teachings which contribute to widespread sinful behavior. But because it’s so pervasive, prevalent, and popular it’s taken as the norm, as harmless, as something to aspire to. [Yet] God's people continue to perish for lack of knowledge. {Click on Read Original Post to read the whole blog.}
Life on the Rapids
Life to me is like those rapids, it comes at you fast, you don’t know what’s ahead, you know you’re going to hit some hard spots but you don’t know how you’re going to get through them until you get to them. You’re afraid of falling.... {Follow the link to read the full post.}
Samson’s Purpose was Greater than Marriage
Can you imagine knowing your purpose from birth? And knowing everything your parents did for you was preparation to fulfill that purpose? Samson knew, yet he still sinned.... He allowed his flesh to rule him even though he experienced the power of the Spirit of God strengthening him on occasion. [Click below to read the full post.]
Show Me the Love
Occasionally, I have to remind people that I am a work in progress, just like them. Though I continue to strive, I have not reached the mark (Philippians 3:12-14), just like you. When I first read God’s instruction to Hosea, I was taken aback. I felt sorry for him. Goodness, to be explicitly instructed to take an adulterous spouse back! That couldn’t be me!
Our Nakedness
Some argue that Adam and Eve knew no shame before the fall because they were innocent. The argument suggests they had no knowledge of good and evil. I think that's rather simplistic. Adam and Eve were made in the image of their creator. They were connected to their source. They had all the knowledge they needed and access to whatever they wanted. (Read full post)
Harvest Life 