If anyone had valid reason to walk away from the pain of relationship with Jesus and His body of believers, it was His mother. And yet, she didn’t.
Tag: wholeness
Imagine what it will look like to rest and enjoy the goodness of God.
“The next time you put on a dinner, don’t just invite your friends and family and rich neighbors, the kind of people who will return the favor. Invite some people who never get invited out, the misfits from the wrong side of the tracks. You’ll…
“But Elisha sent a messenger out to him with this message. “Go wash yourself seven times in the Jordan River. Then your skin will be restored, and you will be healed of your leprosy.” (2 Kings 5:10 NLT) Sometimes healing is a process and it…
“He restores my soul…” (Psalm 23:3 NASB) John Eldredge writes about how the soul can be wounded and how wounding affects our relationship with our Father. I believe he’s right and I’ve been thinking about how Jesus dealt with the wounds of the world; both…
“Teach me Your way, Lord, that I might rely on Your faithfulness, give me an undivided heart, that I might fear Your name.” (Psalm 86:11 NIV) This has long been one of my favorite scriptures. My understanding has been rooted in the idolatry that constantly…
“Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not mine, but it is lived by faith in the son of God.” (Galatians 2:20 MSG) This text makes me think of the seagulls in Finding Nemo. You know the birds: they are aggressively…
“As obedient children, let yourselves be pulled into a way of life shaped by God’s life, a life energetic and blazing with holiness. God said “I am holy, you be holy.” (1 Peter 1:15-16 MSG) We don’t speak too much of holiness these days. We’ve…
“Long before He laid down the earth’s foundations, He had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of His love, to be made whole and holy by His love.” (Ephesians 1:4 MSG) Yesterday, I spent a good deal of time in the…
“Keep your eye on the healthy soul, scrutinize the straight life, there’s a future in strenuous wholeness.” (Psalm 37:37 MSG) So, in the strange words of current culture; “I did a thing.” This summer, almost by accident, I enrolled in college. It may not seem…