Brim Over With Hope

May the God of green hope fill you up with joy

“May the God of green hope fill you up with joy, fill you up with peace, so that your believing lives, filled with the life-giving energy of the Holy Spirit, will brim over with hope!” – Romans 15:13, The Message …

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Sink Your Roots

It takes a long time to sink roots

“It takes a long time to sink roots in the ground, but only a few seconds to cut down a tree.” #STAYFORTH. Is the Lord calling you to the other side of the world? Or does He want you to …

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Offering of the Ordinary

Take your everyday ordinary life -

“Take your everyday ordinary life- your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life- and place it before God as an offering.” – Romans 12:1, The Message Bible. God is omnipotent and amazing, not contained to only certain aspects of your life. …

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Pride then Crash

First pride, then the crash

“First pride, then the crash- the bigger the ego, the harder the fall.” – Proverbs 16:18, The Message Bible. God’s truth is often contradictory to what the world tells us. Pride = weakness. Humility = strength.

Go and Make…

Go and make disciples

“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations  …” – Matthew 28:19 I am sure that we are all very familiar with this verse. It is the one passage that provides pastors impetus to enforce discipleship amongst their people. Folks …

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Where Are You, Lord?

What’s really going on when God seems absent Our son’s voice trembled on the other end of the phone line. I knew right away that Josh had called with the bad news we’d hoped never to hear: Jada, our 14-month-old …

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