This summer on Mondays and Tuesdays I am babysitting my young grandsons – a two year old and a three month old. It is an awesome experience but there are definitely moments of “controlled chaos” as I try to meet both of their needs at the same time. One such…
Read more“For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” Rom 8:15 (NIV) Tomorrow we celebrate Independence Day in America. We rejoice in our freedom to be a country…
Read more“In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel…he began to build the house of the Lord” (1 Kings 6:1). Solomon built the temple in Jerusalem that his father David was…
Read more“And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, And establish the work of our hands for us; Yes, establish the work of our hands.” Ps. 90:17 (NKJV) I love beautiful things, don’t you? I haven’t always taken the time to notice God’s beauty, but lately,…
Read moreWe are to come BOLDLY to the throne of grace. But instead of coming boldly, we come barely. I don’t know why, but too often we allow our past mistakes; our sins, to affect our confidence in coming to God. So much so that some of us opt out of…
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