A few days ago we packed our two cars with Anna’s stuff she was taking to Auburn. Yes, our youngest baby started college. Later that afternoon we got rocked by some financial bad news (let’s just say it left us empty in more ways than one). I went into the bedroom where April and Anna…
More Than You Realize
We went to Bethel Atlanta (www.bethelatlanta.com/) last Sunday to worship with Jason Upton. A couple prayed for us as we stood in line to get in the sanctuary (When was it the last time you had to stand in line and wait to get in the sanctuary to worship?). The woman said to me our…
The Left Hand In Hard Times
<!–[if !mso]>st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]–> There are good days and hard days for us in this season. This reminds me of a verse I received, I believe, from the Lord in a soaking/prayer time during a Methodist Supernatural School of Ministry session in February, 2011. When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider…
Again, Assessing Our Place
At the start of Sunday morning worship in my brother-in-law Fagan’s ministry, he said to everyone the Holy Spirit told him to turn all the service over to me. He told me I could do anything I wanted. There were nine of us there. Whatever I chose to do would not have been an apple…
High and Extended
We currently live on the second floor in my brother-in-law’s beautiful home. In 26 years of marriage we’ve never lived on or even had a second floor. Now, we reside on one, and I know I’m the only one of the three of us who likes the stairs. On June 7, I read from a…
To Follow God 2
Back in April, I read about the rich, young man in Mark’s version of his encounter with Jesus (Mark 10) and wrote this reflection in my journal. “Something still had him. He asked what he must do to have eternal life. In Jesus’ day before the resurrection (the young man) was to adhere to the…
To Follow God
We’re living where we never expected to be. It’s not in a place where we felt called or drawn to be. It’s near where April grew up. It’s true, you never go home again, and we’re not home, but it’s where grace and mercy has been offered to us. We’ve gotten here by choosing to…
And, Again, Alleluia!
“There is going to Jesus in an uncertain environment and believing or taking Jesus with you into a mourning or defeated environment and believing. Be it going to him or taking him with you where you’re going, victory is had in believing, trusting in him where you find him or where you ask him to go.”
Psalm 102 in The Message 