Tag: Word of God

Growing Seeds of Faith

A while back I posted about growing my new lawn and how growing seeds of faith takes the right balance of truth and love. Looking at my lawn this morning, I few more thoughts came to me about seeds of faith and how they grow. But...

Legal, Social, and Absolute Tolerance

Much of the day yesterday I contemplated what I would write today, and whether I would relate today’s post in any way to the fact that it is the 9th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. There is much controversy...

God Won’t Give Up

Last night I climbed into bed early and picked up my Bible to read. I checked my Bible-in-a-year plan to see what was next on my schedule and found that Psalms 119 was next on the list. My first reaction was, “I just read that....

Food for the Journey

In 1 Kings 18, there is an interesting account of when the prophet Elijah challenged the 400 prophets of the false god Baal to prove that Baal was real. Elijah easily won that challenge when God brought down fire to consume the altar on which...

Things I’m Grateful For

The concept of gratitude has been on my mind all week. It might be in part because one of the three angel-card words sitting on my desk right now is gratitude (along with “trust” and “purification”). But it is more than that. I have come to...

What Does It Mean to Be Born Again?

Yesterday was Independence Day, a day when we remember the birth of our nation in the United States. Today is my husband’s birthday and I have been busily making him his favorite cake and smoking ribs on our Traeger pellet stove. I’ve been thinking about...

What Is the Communion of Saints?

I belong to a relatively new congregation that was formed last January and is working on clarifying what we believe as a congregation. Ensuring that all who become voting members of our church believe the pure Gospel as we understand it is important to us...