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Category: Speaking to the Soul

Speaking to the Soul: Fed in spirit and life

November 6, 2015 2 Comments

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;

Speaking to the Soul: Beautiful Beyond Measure

November 5, 2015 No Comments

…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.”

Speaking to the Soul: A memory of fire

November 4, 2015 No Comments

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

Speaking to the Soul: Love Works

November 3, 2015 1 Comment

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.

Speaking to the Soul: All Souls

November 2, 2015 No Comments

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?

Speaking to the Soul: Unbind Him

November 1, 2015 1 Comment

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.

Speaking to the Soul: All Hallows

October 31, 2015 No Comments

It just struck me that one day I might be one of those remembered on All Souls. It gives me a whole different perspective to think that I ought to be living so that at least one person will remember me with thanksgiving on All Souls.

Speaking to the Soul: Unbind us

October 30, 2015 2 Comments

If we want to be like Lazarus, we have to shed those bindings, with some help at times, so that we can walk out of the dank tomb and feel the light and love of resurrection. All that we leave behind makes us lighter for the journey, and there will be companions with us.

Speaking to the Soul: Defending Hope

October 29, 2015 3 Comments

It is my conviction that worship, when it expresses the sentiments of the soul, turns lives around, untangles psychological knots, and brings wholeness – all by itself. Over time what is stuck or frozen begins to thaw and move and grow again. I have seen that happen, and so I know it to be true.

Speaking to the Soul: The enemy of the good

October 28, 2015 No Comments

… my friends have the amazing ability to create fun out of tissue paper, paint and imagination; and that the joy comes as much from the process as from the final product.