One of my 2021 goals is to read the entire Bible. I’ve done the chronological one year Bible for several years now, in a couple of different translations. The Genesis to Revelation plan bogs me down in Chronicles. In an effort to find a new way, of course, I went to google. I was…
A recent sermon by Jim Cymbala of Brooklyn Tabernacle NYC grabbed my attention. In full disclosure, I frequently catch his sermons, I listen to his daily 8–10-minute devotion every morning. Cymbala stated there are reasons we do not see a supernatural move of the Holy Spirit in our churches. I thought it was because we’ve…
The final goal in this series is the one I most aspire to. In Romans 8:4&5 “Only those people who are led by God’s Spirit are his children. God’s Spirit doesn’t make us slaves who are afraid of him. Instead, we become his children and call him our Father.” (the msg). More than anything…
Continuing my Spiritual goals for 2021, today’s goal builds on the previous two. It’s not enough to live in the Spirit, we must grow in the Spirit. Stagnant water stinks and breeds bacteria. I confess, I tend to have growth spurts rather than consistent growth. This year I’m striving for consistency. Pastor Cooper talked…
Last week I wrote about being filled with the Spirit. “Filled” is a past tense verb and I must caution my readers that being filled with the spirit is a present tense action. We live in a world that requires us to continually seek God, repent daily and allow the Holy Spirit to be…
I mentioned last week that I’m a goal setter. I don’t do resolutions, but I try to prayerfully set goals for areas of my life. I start with Spiritual goals because I want all the others to be filtered through what I believe Jesus wants. Sometimes it takes several days into the new year before…
I’ve turned the page to the last week in my 2020 planner/journal/prayer list and I sighed relief. This weekend I’ll go through it and look at all the colorful cancellation stickers that graced the calendar pages. I’ll evaluate the goals written last January, ☹ I’ll smile at the few, very few pictures of the…
On this eve of Christmas Eve, I’m thinkin’ about the people of Christmas. Top billing goes to Mary, the shepherds, the Angels. Joseph joins the cast as a secondary character. He only gets sixteen verses in the entire Bible and we don’t hear his name except for a few weeks in December. He is…
I spent the last week substituting for a Kindergarten class in a Christian school. This class starts each day with a Bible lesson and prayer requests. For the past 6 days I have written on the board, the same request: that my grandma, parents, siblings have a good day. Yesterday I asked them…
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