Today’s Scripture: Psalm 16:11 ESV: You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. David tells us here in Psalm 16 that we must take refuge in God. I certainly agree with David that I have no good apart from God and we can see this in the world around us too can’t ... Continue Reading »

Today’s Scripture:Ezekiel 34:16 ESV; I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice. “So, will I seek out My sheep and deliver them from all the places where they were scattered on a cloudy and dark ... Continue Reading »

Feeling my way in the darkened room I asked God to lead me. We have all asked “Lord, lead us not into temptation…if not temptation, where? Are we following God’s lead? It seems when I cry out and wait for a voice of direction from God the silence crushes me. Yet when I simply go, keep moving, feeling my way in the darkness I can learn to trust ... Continue Reading »

Today’s Scripture: Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 1 John 4:7 ESV 1 John 4:11 (ESV) states: “Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.” At times the only love we have is from God isn’t it? In Martin Luther King Jr’s 1967 address to an anti-war ... Continue Reading »

Today’s Scripture: from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love. Ephesians 4:16 ESV We already have what it takes. We are equipped to do our part for the one body. Although this world and our flesh tries to ... Continue Reading »

Today’s Scripture: Again, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness but will have the light of life." John 8:12 ESV If we follow Jesus, we HAVE the light of life, right here, right now. We just have to make sure we don’t attempt to follow Jesus as the Pharisees followed Abraham and ... Continue Reading »

Today’s Scripture: Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. John 15:4 ESV But, my situation is different. You do not understand the different situation I am in. The words in John 15:4 spoke so loudly to me this morning I could not ... Continue Reading »