So the big question is not if and when we go to God, but how we go to him. Do we go to face heaven’s Judge as indifferent or alienated strangers? Or do we go as faithful children into the arms of our loving Father?
We raise our hands An offering, our helplessness, Our empty hands, Open trusting, it is enough Because in the quiet Emptiness we find
She might have realized how the temple had failed her and that she was about to die, and thrown her two coins in anger, or as a public rebuke. Or, she might not have realized how she’d been wronged and simply taken care of this one last thing …
But what about those outside the church doors, the people we see on the street or maybe in the grocery store or even begging on the sidewalk? Do we greet them with the same kind of greeting we use for our friends in church?
Matthew 14:13-21 Where power and mercy are combined, there is God manifest; where we see righteousness or love, we see the character of God;
…it is as if God reaches for us in every single moment, whispering, “Come back. Come back to me. You are beautiful beyond measure, and you are meant for me. Your essence is to expand, like the tiny tendrils of trees, into the heaven of my love.”
There are only three more Sundays until the beginning of Advent, and the start of a new church year. I love Advent and have ever
The metrics of charity are often counted out in time, treasure and talent. But before any of that, there is the unmeasured essential… Love… the precious commodity we have been given by God to put to work every day… glorifying him by serving others.
When you recall the departed in your life today, what weeds do you simply need to toss in the fire and be done with them? Where were the seeds in that other person you never appreciated until death separated them from us?
As long as we allow death culture to reign over kingdom culture people can’t become saints. Death culture makes it impossible for people to do anything except survive. But — and this is the good part — with God all things are possible. We can move from being a society of survivors to a society of thrivers, but only if we help one another.