[1] O LORD, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. [2] But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me. […]
What got me out of bed this morning
I snoozed with my iPhone alarm this morning from about 5:00 until around 5:30. At that point I opened up my YouVersion Bible app and started reading the reading from yesterday (which I fell asleep reading last night) in Joshua 16 & 17. I remembered reading this last night, and came across similar statements a […]
Drawing Closer to God
No The word phobos is used in a lot of places like “They were afraid of the Jews” but in a lot of other places it is used to describe the feeling people had after an amazing miracle had just happened. … And walking in reverence for it’s husband and by being drawn near and closer to God by the Holy Spirit, the church multiplied.
The Holy Spirit, Gifts, and Freedom
(I realize this quote starts out kind of arrogant, but stay with me.) We lack for Christians who feel themselves expendable in the warfare of the soul, who cannot be frightened by threats of death because they have already died to the attractiveness of this world. Such Christians will be free from the compulsions that […]
What do we do with this bucket?
John 4:28 NET Then the woman left her water jar, went off into the town and said to the people… So many times people focus on the woman leaving the jar like she didn’t care about water anymore because she now had the living water. and that’s fine But what are we going to do […]
A Chance to Boast
So now here we are in a state that we can’t boast or celebrate any of our good deeds, because it’s not the outward deed that matters, but what you are on the inside. On Saturday, a guy was raking leaves at my neighbor’s house. I sat in my car, about to drive away, and […]
Jesus "Made Himself" a Son of God
John 19:1-11 “Where are you from?” Pilate asks. If he can’t figure out this king business, maybe he can find out where Jesus came from. The people have said that Jesus 4160 the Son of God. 4160. poieo, poy-eh-o; apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary; to make or do (in a very wide […]
God Isn't Afraid of Anybody: Scary or Dirty or Unholy
John 4:7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, ‚ÄúWill you give me a drink?‚Äù I was thinking this morning about Jesus asking the woman for a drink of water. There were several times when we lived in Asia that there would be a kid walking down the street eating […]
God and His Weak Little Daughter Laughing at the Big Bad Kings
Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria. This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you. The Daughter of Jerusalem […]