You could spend days, weeks, or even years in the Psalms and find things of pure gold there. The beauty and bewilderment of the book is that you can find near the same in just a moment. Whether taken as an entire work of emotionally charged prayers and blessings to the Lord, or single moments,… Read More A moment in the Psalms
In many cases there’s a remarkable difference between terms and concepts. Take, for example, the term and the conceptual understanding of “Transformation”. The term means “a complete or dramatic change in form, appearance or function”. Pretty straight forward. The concept becomes a little more complicated. We know that transformation means that something changes into something else.… Read More Transformation
My books are back. After three long years, they’re back. Ever since we moved out of my office at Palm Harbor Church my books have resided in boxes, shifting from one storage space to the next. First in my garage and then in a storage container outside my office at 6 Stones, we’ve been separated… Read More Books
My wife and I have recently started watching a new series called TURN: Washingtons Spies. Set in the late 1700s, this series is based on real characters involved in the Revolutionary War, serving as our nation’s first spies. I was intrigued by the show because I love the era, but I was captured by the… Read More 7 things TURN is teaching me about myself
Go read John 1:1-28 Did you pick up on whats happening in the story? The pharisees (Jewish religious leaders) had sent “preists and levites” to find John the Baptist and discover whether he was the Messiah, a prophet, or something else. Apparently they’d heard about who he was and what he was doing, and they… Read More Searching
“The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.” (Isaiah 40:8 ESV) You and I have a life cycle. We are born, we live, and we die. Each life is like a quick blink on the landscape of eternity. But that blink is significant. It’s not pointless. It reverberates… Read More Grass
“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.” (Isaiah 40:2 ESV) The battle, over. Your failures, forgotten. Our suffering, complete. This is God’s prophetic cry to the city of Jerusalem. This is… Read More I’m right here.
