Brave (WOTY): Poetry and Prayer
I was reminded by reading some poetry about bravery this morning that not all bravery is about doing something new. Sometimes it is about finishing what is hard or doing the right thing instead of the easy one.
Spiritual Practices: Worship
Worship is not a form or order that we do, it is the work of our hands, the thoughts of our hearts - showing the worth-ship that we place on God.
Spiritual Practices: Fasting
The primary purpose of fasting is place God at the center of our lives: our thoughts and actions.
Fasting Bible Reading Plan
Read along with us as we study Fasting in April. What is fasting and what does God want from our fasting?
BRAVE: New Ways to Connect by Hearing, Saying, Seeing
From testimonies to music to famous people, Brave is everywhere, even inside us.
BRAVE in the Bible: Joshua
Joshua is a biblical example of courage or bravery, as my Word of the Year.
Spiritual Practice: Giving
The the key to giving is the heart decides what to give, when, how much. It isn’t the church, the Joneses, or anyone else who decides what we need to give.
Spiritual Practices Intro
An introduction to spiritual practices or disciplines along with a definition.
Brave: Word of the year 2024
Brave - what can we gain by a year of bravery? word of the year introduction
Emotions as Gauge and Not Guide
We need to understand our emotions and control them, using them as a gauge and not a guide. They can offer an understanding of how we are feeling and how to process what is going on in our lives, but they cannot be used to drive our actions.
Proud or Confident: do both lead to the fall?
A healthy confidence or pride… what the Bible says the antidote to pride is.
Living in the present when everything seems to be in the future
The last few months have been a push and then wait kind of time. Here I am, in the present and content to let the incomplete be incomplete. I am content to trust him and I know God’s got this.
Longing, glorify god in it
Our longings can glorify God or they can draw us into sin. Being your longings to Him and he will be glorified. He fulfills our greatest longing.
Present – Cosmology seems to agree with Christianity
Looking outside my personal experience of the word ‘present’, we checked the Bible and now we can check physical science - relativity and cosmology.