Spiritual Highs and Lows, God-sent or Self-induced?
As a youth, I experienced spikes in spiritual zeal after retreats, mission trips and concerts. Then I’d fizzle out like a flat Coke a week or few later. My peer...
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God’s Visions Are Promises
When I discover a noteworthy truth, I like to paraphrase it and write myself into it. The exercise helps me swallow the passage and critically apply its lesson....
Resources: Bible Verses about Generosity
Jesus talks about money more than any other topic and much of the time, He brings it up in connection with doing justice. I have been compiling a list of these ...
Time for a Self-Worth Transplant
We all feel it- the need to know that we matter. Truly, each of us matters. A lot. We just can’t see the truth when we are looking for it in all the wrong...
How I Made Bible Reading and Prayer a Daily Habit
I can believe something without knowing it. For years sermons and accountability meetings nudged me to make Bible study a priority and I believed them, but I di...
Of Faith and Finances: Encouragement for Founders of Nonprofit Organizations
To the start-up starter uppers out there willing to work years as full-time unpaid staff because you are committed to a calling bigger than yourself, can I (alo...
Friendship and Kitchen Knives
I watched my mother do the friendship dance through my seven childhood moves. So when I married a military man turned graduate student five years and four apart...
One Thousand Gifts IV
I have been reading a borrowed copy of The Valley of Vision, a collection or Puritan prayers and devotions from John Bunyan to Charles Spurgeon. I recently read...
Discerning God’s Will Is Not the Nerve-Racking Puzzle I Once Thought It Was
Have you ever dreamed up a mission but wondered whether the idea came from God or from your own head? Obviously, discerning God’s voice correctly is essen...
“Big” is a Nebulous Term
“Son, look up into that huge dark sprawling 40-foot tree. Now look beyond the tree at the first star tonight. Did you know that that star is bigger than t...
3 Thousand Different Kinds of Beautiful
1) Sunlight on water can be a thousand different kinds of beautiful. Even over the same body of water, this East Texas lake for instance, every morning sky ref...
A Lesson in Patience and Perspective
20 hours ago we were packing ice chests by candles light because this time yesterday a sudden, angry, lake-sloshing storm blew pine trees into power lines. I l...
Buttricks, Buttresses and Back Roads: Entering Prayer Quiet & Confident
Does King’s College Chapel’s ceiling remind you of winter treetops on an unbending back road? Around here, where winter is long and tree-vaulted roa...
As Women, Inside Us is this Longing-
As women, inside us is this longing- an insatiable need for validation, adoration, affirmation, affection, and devotion. And we are like, “Where is this...
Vengeance Is Not Mine
I often apply God’s encouraging words for Judah to His encouragement for victims of sex trafficking. Today, I read in Jeremiah 50:34, All their captors h...
For the Love of Solitude
Many of us live more restlessly than restfully. Although watching a sunset while lying in the grass or dangling our feet off a dock sounds romantic, most of us ...
“Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers”
Day 8 of the 40 Day Prayer Guide for Orphan Care www.pearpod.com/oc/downloads/40DaysofPrayer.pdf: “Today, pray for the Lord to raise up workers for the ha...
Reasons for Inquiry
Jeremiah 10:21 says, “The shepherds are senseless and do not inquire of the Lord; so they do not prosper and all their flocks are scattered.” Sever...
“Transformed”
Yesterday, I passed a flashy billboard with triple x printed across the sign. I pictured those x’s being pushed on their sides and transformed&...
Cleanliness Is Next to Godliness
The average baby does not like being naked and hates diaper changes. He does not kow how important it is that he be cleaned, but his mother does. She lovingly...
List of Truths
Here is an abridged list of descriptions of God’s people from scripture. Scripture is true; these words are true for people who belong to God; you b...
Old lyrics. New meaning.
Have you ever watched a movie that you hadn’t seen since childhood and realized how completely you had misunderstood the plot. I have done that seve...
permanent. then again.
The permanency of death is hard for me to comprehend. It feels more like an abstract concept than an irreparable fact. It’s been 6 months sinc...
Re: Email to Mrs. Masalin
Momma Maz, Thank you! Things are going well. I was saying to ppl at church on Sunday, “Good morning, I hope I don’t see you next week!”&...
Questioning My Questions
I reread my post: http://heatherpaiges.blogspot.com/2011/06/provocation-of-thought-during-prayer.html today. From where does this sense of entitlement spring? H...
provocation of thought during prayer (personal journal entry transcribed on whether or not God is good)
These questions have weighed heavily on my mind since Levi Masalin’s death and were furthered by a recent sermon by Thomas Wong, pastor at Point Community...
The move
Stayed up until 3am with dear friends in Connecticut then rose at 6am to get to church in New Jersey on time. There, we found that 10 men planned to help move u...
Only People Matter
Many pursue wealth & ownership, dream jobs & experiences. But no one grieves over losing money in the stock market or missing a job promotion. No one...