Today’s Scripture: Matthew 10:39 ESV: Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. Have we ever lost our life for Jesus’ sake? Forget lost for a second, have we ever even “inconvenienced” our life for Jesus? As we look at Jesus’ instructions here to this young group of disciples can we apply these ... Continue Reading »

Today’s Scripture: Daniel 2:23 NLT Tyndale: I thank and praise you, God of my ancestors, for you have given me wisdom and strength. When do you thank God? Do you wait until everything has come out as you planned? Daniel stepped out in faith. He requested an appointment with the king to interpret his dream BEFORE he had even asked God to ... Continue Reading »

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 »