Set Fire to the Rain is a therapeutic letter featured in Desert of Solitude: Refreshed by Grace. It was written three years after the addressee, Peewee, died. The letter represents the tiers and nuances of love and forgiveness that entangles and confuses interactions between an abuser and the abused.
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Sermon: Why Marriage? by Nik Godshall
Nik Godshall’s sermon titled, “Why Marriage?” is an excellent message about the beauty of maintaining sexual purity for marriage and continuing with faithfulness in the relationship.
Desert of Solitude: Elevator Pitch
Desert of Solitude is for the dreamers and strivers. The people who may have achieved nothing, something or a great deal, but that “one thing” continues to elude them. What is it that you want from life, in life or through your life? What do you think you’re missing? What do you believe will complete your existence?
It doesn’t matter. Whatever “it” is, you are enough for your life as you are now.
Stork Delivery, Part 2: Uninvited & Misguided
We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people’s trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming. But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined andContinueContinue reading “Stork Delivery, Part 2: Uninvited & Misguided”
Haters hate. Keep moving.
For a while, I struggled with the true view and value the closest or more constant people in my life have and project of me. Then I decided I am going to live my life out loud. I am no longer going to shield my thoughts, hopes and ambitions for my future and my life.
Devotional: Prayer for His People
Jesus didn’t ask God to take believers out of the world but instead to use them in the world. Because Jesus sends us into the world, we should not try to escape from the world, nor should we avoid all relationships with non-Christians. We are called to be salt and light (Matthew 5:13-16), and we are to do the work that God sent us to do. A follower of Christ becomes set apart through believing and obeying the Word of God.
Segregation – The Neighbor That Won’t Leave
Affluent and Black, and Still Trapped by Segregation – New York Times front page on Sunday, August 21, 2016. Read it here: http://nyti.ms/2bvF9m5
Song & Verse: Your Presence is Heaven to Me by Israel Houghton
Your Presence is Heaven to Me by Israel Houghton & New Breed Who is like You Lord in all the earth? Matchless love and beauty, endless worth Nothing in this world will satisfy ‘Cause Jesus You’re the cup that won’t run dry Your presence is heaven to me Your presence is heaven to me TreasureContinueContinue reading “Song & Verse: Your Presence is Heaven to Me by Israel Houghton”
ANNA MURRAY-DOUGLASS: MY MOTHER AS I RECALL HER
Looking backward over a space of fifty years or more, I have in remembrance two travelers whose lives were ·real in their activity; two lives that have indelibly impressed themselves upon my memory; two lives whose energy and best ability was exerted to make my life what it should be, and who gave me aContinueContinue reading “ANNA MURRAY-DOUGLASS: MY MOTHER AS I RECALL HER”
Quote: Man is free…
L’homme est libre au moment qu’il veut l’être. Man is free at the instant he wants to be. Voltaire, Brutus, act II, scene I (1730)