Start this year with a clean slate and pure intentions. Seek Holy Spirit guidance. Resolve to pursue holiness. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Psalm 51:10-11
God’s peace came to earth to begin a new work of relational and conscious worship. Jesus grew into His calling of teaching, justice, healing, and miracles of love. His life purpose was to show us how to live wrapped within the love of God in peace, harmony, serving, and joy while the world around us
Is a daily relationship with Jesus on your New Year’s Resolutions list? The Christmas plays are over. Church cantata’s are completed. Gifts have been put away and decorations are poised to go back into storage until the end of the year. Where does that leave Jesus in your life? In the manger in a box?
As we move into a new year let us make every effort to return to the light that gives life, peace in the midst of noise, and an unconditional love that heals. Then give it away. Jesus says, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will
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On this eve of the New Year make the resounding Christ-mas joy an every day mission. Place Jesus at the forefront and don’t look back. Keep moving forward with greater purpose, renewed willingness to help others, and hone the wisdom of Holy Spirit within. Let the work begin in your heart and spread throughout the
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Are you feeling a little parched from the bustling stress of the holidays? Take a deep breath and start anew with fresh wisdom from God. Get into the Word and satisfy your thirst. Pray for deeper meaning and understanding. Jesus says we will never thirst in Him. God already knows the lay of the land
In the midst of whatever goes on in our lives, the good, bad, indifferent, trauma, anger, health woes, wayward children, divorce, job loss, happiness, joy….. if we are deeply rooted in our relationship with Jesus, we will stand and not wither. It is a commitment to what is right in truth. Stand firm by way
In this self-absorbed world, humans have decided they can control through money, celebrity, angry tirades, and ignoring right and wrong. The thing is, as is true with everything in life, each one of those ways of living is tied to attitude and effort. A bad or morally wrong attitude leads to either criminal or complacent
What miracles are you expecting to happen? Life is always a balance of bad and good. In a fantasy world, if it’s not perfect, it’s bad. In a realistic world, miracles make the bad and unexpected good. God is good. I’m with the God of goodness. Are you living the fantasy or the realistic life?
The Holy Spirit has the ability to change our heart, soften the hardships of our lives, and mysteriously put us back together, over and over. What we can not humanly control, do, understand, fix, or reconcile the Holy Spirit mysteriously can. While we may lack the ability to find compassion on our own, God gives
