Tag: faith

Of Small Beginnings

Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin, to see the plumb line in Zerubbabel’s hand. – Zechariah 4:10 When a chronic diagnosis flies into your life, it sure does feel… Read More

The Truth About Love

Meanwhile, the leading priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas to be released and for Jesus to be put to death. – Matthew 27:20 Sometimes I feel like that crowd. I’m so easily persuaded… Read More

Sunday Scripture: 11/16/14

  That is what the Scriptures mean when God told him, “I have made you the father of many nations.”  This happened because Abraham believed in the God who brings the dead back to life and who creates new… Read More

Do You Look Before You Leap?

“The Sovereign Lord is my strength; He makes my feet like the feet of a deer, He enables me to tread on the heights” (Habakkuk 3:19). Have you ever seen mountain goats? I mean really seen them in action?… Read More

Of Galleries and Oases

After leaving Marah, the Israelites traveled on to the oasis of Elim, where they found twelve springs and seventy palm trees. They camped there beside the water. – Exodus 15:27 In Utah, where we used to live, it’s… Read More

O, Me of Little Faith

And the Lord said, “If you had faith like a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea’; and it would obey you. – Luke 17:6 Sometimes my faith… Read More

The Line

In addition to all, taking up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. – Ephesians 6:16 We’re all so careful, aren’t we, to stay on… Read More

The Power of Light

Lift up your eyes on high And see who has created these stars, The One who leads forth their host by number, He calls them all by name; Because of the greatness of His might and the strength… Read More

It’s Not You, It’s Me

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your… Read More

Sunday Scripture: 10/12/14

So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise. Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days. Don’t act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do. – Ephesians… Read More