Last week, I wrote about the hedge God has placed around me, because I am precious to Him. It is in His garden, with daily contact with the Master Gardener, that I can be fruitful and reflect Him. It reminded me of a poem I wrote in 2012, talking about my relationship with God: Dei-Phototropism.1… Read More
Bible Doodle: Psalm 40:3
He has given me a new song to sing, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see what he has done and be amazed. They will put their trust in the Lord. Psalm 40:3
Don’t forget to ask, “Who?”
“He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.” (John1:10 NIV) A baby, hours old, turns her face toward her mother’s voice. She recognizes familiar sounds, soothing and secure from when she was being formed. A dog in the house hears the family’s car turn… Read More
What We Think Controls Our Lives
I am immersed in words, graphics, and book on an exciting project I am working on with my brother Dave. He preached a series of sermons in July based on 2 Corinthians 10:5: “We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make… Read More
Who Are You Waiting For?
Who are you waiting for during this advent season?Will you recognize him when he gets here? Or are your circumstances so tough that you’re having second thoughts? Even John the Baptist got confused. Life hurts.All I can feel, see, taste is pain, PAIN, PAIN! In this advent, in this time of becoming, what are you focusing… Read More
Bible Doodle: 1 John 4:7-12
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This… Read More
Coming Into Being
What is advent? Before this morning (when I looked it up) I would have said it was “the time before” or “a time of waiting.” But there’s more to it than that. The Merriam-Webster dictionary gives this definition (when not capitalized): a coming into being or use such as”the advent of pasteurization” or “the advent of… Read More
