Praying for Direction: faith on a stormy sea
You’ve probably asked God for clear direction maybe 1,000 times. I just finished an intense time of prayer over a week or so asking God where He would like me to go. I feel like I got two answers to my petition. Not bad. Now, admittedly they are subjective but maybe they will help you too. The … Read more
2 Problems with seeing
“For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.” (1 Corinthians 13:12, NASB95) I was sitting at dinner with my wife and daughter. They were chatting and I sat there thinking over … Read more
The Funny Math of Acts 2
Acts 2:41 (NIV) 41 Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day. So, if eleven Apostles stood in the Jordan for 10 hours and baptized 1 person every 2.2 minutes then they could baptize all 3000 people in 10 hours. Can you imagine the workout … Read more
Wow! Prosperity!
In the cool of this morning’s two mile jaunt it dawned on me: True prosperity is the result of walking in God’s Spirit (Galatians 5:22-25). Prospering, for me, is the positive weaving together of all the threads of my life. So if I have love for others and others love for me, if I have … Read more
Does Patience mean Slow
Everything is quick quick quick….even my favorite encyclopedia, Wikipedia, comes from the Hawaiian word for quick. Last night, in the middle of the night, around 3 AM I woke up and my brain was racing. I was mad, really mad and I was ‘yelling’ in the quiet of my mind at a group of people. … Read more
Shock at coming in contact with God
I am meditating through (odd way to think about meditation) the stories of Jesus recorded in John’s gospel chapter 6. One of them is where Jesus is walking on the water and walks up to the disciples as they are rowing across the lake. Obviously they are freaked out and he says: “It is I; … Read more
Why are Proverbs so relevant?
Why is it that proverbs last so long? One I like from Mark Twain is, “Why not go out on a limb? That’s where the fruit is.” or “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” or “It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.” and lastly, … Read more
“Gather up the leftover fragments"
The title sounds a bit odd but its what Jesus says around the end of the feeding of over 5,000 people. The disciple of Jesus, John, tells us about it in his book in the beginning of the sixth chapter (John 6). John is trying to show who Jesus is. It is not just that … Read more
Last night, a prayer of humble trust
Last night I woke up at about 3am…I knew right away that I could not go back to sleep so, I pulled the covers over my head, got my smartphone out, opened the Bible program and started to read. No night light needed. I was strongly impressed by the passage I read so here it … Read more
