“How often do we pray with this being the first impression on our minds without expressing it: LORD, DO YOU REMEMBER ME?”
Category: Jesus
What Did the Widows Contribute?
“She was willing to be generous with what little she had, trusting that Elijah’s word that neither the oil nor the meal would run out, was indeed the word of the Lord. SHE TRUSTED IN THE WORD OF THE LORD.”
Persuaded
“Everything we do as Christians, everything we experience – good and bad, everything we witness that is hopeful or discouraging is in the shadow of the resurrected Lamb of God. EVERYTHING.”
A World Series Sermon
“Jesus, in this lesson to his disciples, puts this argument about who was greatest, who was the Goat, in a Kingdom context. To be the greatest, you must become the least and the servant of all BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT JESUS DID.”
Where Healing Is Found
“Amidst all that WE ARE and all that we’re not, all WE SHARE and all we keep to ourselves, all WE HAVE in common and all we have not in common, the consistent, common plead WE ALL EXPRESS is, ‘Jesus, help us.'”
The Spirit Leads
“‘Experiences of the Holy Spirit not only warms our hearts; it also strengthens our hands and puts our feet in motion. . . In these activities, God is busy acting upon us, placing something into our empty hands, enlivening our cold hearts, enabling us to be transformed in ways that we could never be on our own.'”
More Stubborn Than Righteous
“The Pharisees were more stubborn than righteous in confronting Jesus, and the disciples were prone to be more stubborn than righteous to defend Jesus from a waste of time in blessing children. WHAT ABOUT US? ARE WE MORE STUBBORN THAN RIGHTEOUS.”
Hand, Eye & Foot
“Being in the inner circle with Jesus may make you egotistical and arrogant if you focus on the benefits of the relationship rather than sharing the good news of God in deed and word to everyone in your path.”
What We’re Meant to Do
“I was certain about pursuing a Doctor of Ministry degree. That certainty transformed into and remained a certainty of what I was supposed to do, what I was to return to doing and being. For a particular reason? That’s not the right question right now.”
They Knew He Would
Mark 7: 24-37 During the presidency of Jimmy Carter, Menachem Begin, the prime minister of Israel, visited the president at the White House. They were talking in the Oval Office when Begin noticed the three phones on Carter’s desk. One was platinum, one was red, and one was gold. Begin joked, “What are those phones…
Psalm 102 in The Message 