What does your church look like? Is it reaching the nations? Bringing others to salvation? Getting out of it’s four walls to touch the seeking…. With the love of God? Looking. At Acts. The Upper Room. People weren’t trickling. With droppings. Or subtle seasoning. Of the Holy Spirit. They had a full emerging in. Fire onset. […]
No one sees it….as she balances along flowerbed walls. Trying not to fall. They don’t notice….as she spots a dandelion. Finds beauty in what others might call, weeds. And oh how I seek, our home to be a place, that finds beauty in all creation. Counts everything He made, good. Regardless of how things appears…to the […]
Yards away. Finish line looming. Men. Women. Young ones. Training. Extensively. For this day. Sounds. Lights. Screams. Ending a long awaited hope, anticipated. Still, another race is underway. One where endurance is everything. Strength. Patience. Perseverance. Leads us to, the prize awaiting. One where, everywhere we look…..people’s races are being cut short. Knees buckle. Limbs get […]
Like a seismograph drawing the depth of the sea floor. Back and forth. Back and forth, it combs. And though surface seems still. And silent. Lights dim. All well. I know something is wrong. I feel it. The text. I get it. Axis tilting in the wrong direction. Sensing that falling. Into something uncertain. That even […]
My belly was the size of a whale. I wobbled to the car at my parents. Having a mini-sized hissy fit. “Why didn’t you have any more kids.” I grown to my parents. Growing up in a quiet house with just one brother. Hours before birthing my second child. Insisting, “Now my kids won’t have any cousins their age. […]
If I can speak in the tongues of men and even of angels, but have not love (that reasoning, intentional, spiritual devotion such as is inspired by God’s love for us and in us)….. I am only a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers (the gift of interpreting the divine […]