What a difference a thousand miles can make for one’s perspective. The calm, pristine and balmy ocean waters stretched endlessly into the horizon. A stark contrast to the frigid, snow-blanketed mountains we recently traveled from.
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There’s a moment in Scripture so familiar we can miss its thunder—the calling of the first disciples by the Sea of Galilee. When Jesus found Peter and Andrew, James and John, they were fishermen. Their
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. . . Can it be all we need is love? What if living love really can change the world? Debated by theologians, scholars, songwriters, and eternal dreamers like me, the enormity of this question
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I was reminded of God as Divine Keeper in my morning devotional the other day, and it led me on a deep dive in my Thomson Chain Reference Bible published by B. B. Kirkbride Bible
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How do we spell ‘LOVE’? Love. It’s both noun and action. Do you feel the love? Noun. I will love you forever. Verb. One of the greatest “love” verses of all time tells of the
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What Scripture Reveals About Authority, Power, and Testing That We Often Miss There is a sequence in Scripture that reveals how kingdom power works. We see it again and again, yet too often we read
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God Provides Many believers can quote scripture on how provision follows calling. But then they see the gap between the command and the resources, and panic. They calculate costs, measure impossibilities, and quietly conclude that
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Just 100 Words This past Fall, we had over a dozen deaths at our church – spouses, children, and other family members. In one particularly difficult week, three funerals were held at the church. Ministering
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Position Yourself Pirates of the Caribbean didn’t stumble upon treasure ships by accident. They understood something fundamental about wealth that we’ve largely forgotten: riches concentrate in predictable places. Successful pirates studied shipping routes, seasonal patterns,
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There is a pattern in scripture many people miss. Not because it’s hidden. Not because it’s complicated. But because we’ve been trained to focus on the miracle instead of what comes before it. We celebrate
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