Tone Deaf
Passing the Torch When You Don’t Want To
We sometimes get to a place where, instead of completing the journey ourselves, we must pass the torch to someone else.
Read MoreYou Are Sent
Names are personal, and calling someone by name indicates a relationship with them. Jesus knows these apostles; he chooses and names them specifically.
Read MoreWhat Is Praise?
When we call out to God for help and God answers, how often do we respond with the kind of praise that the Psalmist uses in these verses? I tend to offer a quick thank you and then move on as if God showing up for me was no big deal. What if I instead turned to offer God praise?
Read MoreHere I Am Lord
Like Abram, God calls each of us to unique and specific tasks. These tasks could be as every day as a conversation with a person who is hurting and needs a listening ear and a word of encouragement, and these tasks could be the way we earn a living or whom we choose to build a family with or the places we serve others.
Read MoreFears of Sharing My Faith
Fear freezes our dreams, hopes, and aspirations. It immobilizes our efforts. Even though a pastor, I still feared someone might reject me if I shared my faith.
Read MoreSacrament for Failure
Jesus instructs his disciples that, if the people do not accept them, shake the dust off their feet. This action becomes a sacramental act to remove failure from our lives.
Read MoreA Spacious Place 2
October 12, 2019 DAILY READINGS Psalm 66:1-12Jeremiah 28:1-17Luke 5:12-16This weekend’s scripture:Proverbs 29:17 FIELD NOTES Psalm 66 ends with this line: we went through fire and through water; yet you have brought us out to a spacious place. It’s a reference to Exodus 3:8 where God declares: I have come down to deliver my people from…
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Read MoreTraveling Light
Jesus instructed his disciples to not take anything with them as they went on their mission. Why?
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