“When God is involved, fear is addressed or at least exposed.”
Tag: fear
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.'”
A Faith of Pursuit
“Sell all that religiosity (you can’t even give the stuff away) before considering the actions and determinations of people like the suffering woman and Jairus. Consider the actions of people like this first. What do they do that makes all the difference?”
Play It Safe?
A recurring Bible verse I’ve employed the last couple Sundays is Jeremiah 29: 11 – “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’” Promises are given to specific individuals in the biblical record of…
It’s From God
Matthew 1: 18-25 A recurring Bible verse I’ve employed the last couple Sundays is Jeremiah 29: 11 – “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’” Promises are given to specific individuals in the…
Great Big Things
Happy Father’s Day. “My kids are always so nice to me on Father’s day,” said one father. “They will do anything I ask them to do.” A co-worker replied, “Well, I must say that Father’s Day is the one day that my children do listen to me. I tell them not to spend a lot…
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…
Serious Confidence
I heard fairly recently that a church authority said that he found charismatic Christians to act superior and overbearing. In my contact with this authority, I found myself exchanging with him intensely when he expressed that I thought people we mutually knew were spiritually immature, and not even Christian, because I didn’t agree with them. …
Psalm 102 in The Message 