Seasons

Seasons

As we move into a new season, summer to fall, it reminds me that God has seasons in bringing His kingdom to fullness on the earth. Just as natural, seasonal changes can be marked by observable changes, God’s seasons are seen in the changes we see in the world. ...

Stones Are for Stepping

One of my favorite memories as a kid was going to the river with my family. We spent a lot of time climbing on the rocks in the river and would often get soaked. As I reflect on those memories and recall how many rocks I climbed, I think about the steps I took from...

Are your hands full?

“You’ve sure got your hands full!”   Walking into any public establishment with two young kids it became an expectation that someone was going to say this. Once there were three kids, eyebrows would raise with the comment. Four, it was said with more...

Jesus Goes To The One’s We Love

Matthew 11:1“When Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities?” When I read this verse, I wondered, “ What was the command or charge Jesus had given to his disciples, and when it says, “their...

Abide

Luke 10:38-42 38 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39 She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. 40  But Martha was distracted by all the...

The Gardner

I’m so thankful that God doesn’t only pursue us and find us leading to the moment of salvation. He is God, who pursues us for our entire lives–unrelenting and never without hope for us. Why would He do this? What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that...