So, I’ve come off the mountain…literally. I drove home from Montreat this afternoon and returned home to everything that I left before heading to the conference. I returned home before the kids got home from school so I was going through the mail that came, replied […]
Power Today was the final day of the conference and it was the lifting up, the resurrection, the pointing to hope. The last few days were times spent with the cross with Good Friday, the silence of the tomb of Saturday, and then today with […]
When I think about the power of God, I remember a conversation with a friend of mine who is a builder by trade. He and I were working on a Habitat for Humanity house when he talked of how he thought of the power of […]
Mark 14 So so so so much in this chapter. I debated as I read the passage and thought about it through the day about whether to focus on one small piece of this large narrative or just to try to capture it all. I […]
Matthew 10 Today is the day known as Pentecost – the completion of the Jewish Feast of Weeks and also the day in the Christian faith where we remember the story of the coming of the Holy Spirit as recorded in Acts 1. The traditional […]
So I was at the zoo the other day and one of the lions was right up by the glassed in viewing area. I was about 10 feet away from this lion when I took this picture (of course with a nice pane of glass […]
The Coming of Elijah As they were coming down the mountain, he ordered them to tell no one about what they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead. So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what this rising […]
Psalm 114 When Israel went out from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language, Judah became God’s sanctuary, Israel his dominion. The sea looked and fled; Jordan turned back. The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. Why is it, […]
Psalm 93 The Lord is king, he is robed in majesty; the Lord is robed, he is girded with strength. He has established the world; it shall never be moved; your throne is established from of old; you are from everlasting. The floods have lifted […]
Psalm 84 How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts! My soul longs, indeed it faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God. Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow […]
Psalm 76 In Judah God is known, his name is great in Israel. His abode has been established in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion. There he broke the flashing arrows, the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah Glorious are you, more […]
Psalm 68 Let God rise up, let his enemies be scattered; let those who hate him flee before him. As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melts before the fire, let the wicked perish before God. But let the righteous be […]
