If you only get one gift this year, make sure it is this one. God has it there, waiting for you to ask.
Bible Doodle: Ephesians 2:8
Urgency in Advent
Oil and Water.Truth and Grace.Urgency and Advent. These things don’t mix. Except when God is a part of the picture. God anoints you as His child and gives you living water.God knows the real you and, by His grace, loves you anyway.But because the truth demands justice, His son came to earth to satisfy justice… Read More
Hangry and Out of Hope
A friend told that her life seems overwhelming right now. The night before I read this story about Elijah. He had just experienced a great outpouring of God’s power in a contest against 850 prophets of idols. It actually was no contest at all, with God having an overwhelming victory. Then Elijah received physical superpowers… Read More
No Such Thing as Secular History
We are made in the image of God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, a community in one. The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He… Read More
We Are the Body of Christ
19-22 That’s plain enough, isn’t it? You’re no longer wandering exiles. This kingdom of faith is now your home country. You’re no longer strangers or outsiders. You belong here, with as much right to the name Christian as anyone. God is building a home. He’s using us all—irrespective of how we got here—in what he is building. He… Read More
Keep in Tune Together
15-16 Let the peace of Christ keep you in tune with each other, in step with each other. None of this going off and doing your own thing. And cultivate thankfulness. Let the Word of Christ—the Message—have the run of the house. Give it plenty of room in your lives. Instruct and direct one another using… Read More
The Basics of Life
I get to choose my foundation that I build my life on. So do you. I made God the center early on, but at times my foundation has been a little shaky, not because of God, but because of my lack. As I continue to seek God’s word, to understand it, to take it into… Read More
Kathleen S Evenhouse 