Receiving God's WORD for 2024

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Receiving God's WORD for 2024

Here we are again, friends. Another year has past, and for many it’s a time for the infamous “New Year’s Resolutions.” But several years ago I turned away from that initially hopeful, but later, dreaded “setting yourself up for failure,” tradition to a new thing altogether.

Resolutions are no temptation to me anymore. I’ve given up trying to change myself by my own self-effort. The indwelling Christ is my “Game-changer” and my “Life-changer.” And a few years ago, He brought a lovely “new thing” to my attention … the idea of a word for my year.

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ADVENT (Week 4) -- Fullness of LOVE in Jesus: "the Smile that Destroyed My Religion"

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ADVENT (Week 4) -- Fullness of LOVE in Jesus: "the Smile that Destroyed My Religion"

When I think of God’s Love in Jesus, I no longer think,”Yeh, He loves me, but then sometimes He loves me not.” Do you feel this way?

For this very short 4th week of Advent, I feel compelled to share the most critical turning point in my spiritual life. and this turning point is all about the “fullness of the love of God” for me truly and totally.

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Glory-filled JOY: Hail, the Incarnate Deity!

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Glory-filled JOY: Hail, the Incarnate Deity!

I love this song and this blog. It is an excerpt from my Bible study/ devotional book, The Witness of Our God: Relationship in Every Dimension. (See below)
Enjoy the backstory of this amazing hymn and several renditions of the song.
Then dig into the bible study that amplifies each line of the song with scripture. …

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A JOY-Filled Morning Meditation -- GLORY!

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A JOY-Filled Morning Meditation -- GLORY!

… Year after year, I have meditated in Tim Chester’s magnificent Advent devotional, The One True Light: Daily Readings for Advent from the Gospel of John. And every year, it is fresh and “as if for the first time.”

This year one thought has just “jumped off” the page … and has given me great JOY….

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Morning Song: Waking Up Singing

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Morning Song: Waking Up Singing

The connection of JOY with singing for week 3 of Advent makes me think of a meditation from our newly published book of meditations, Glory in Disguise: Seeing God in our Every Day (see FREE offer below). Grabbing hold of Him who is the fullness of JOY throughout our day is easier when we “wake up singing.”
Enjoy this meditation with us. And may you be blessed to see there is JOY in the midst of what may be your very hard circumstances when your Source is Jesus, our Emmanuel.

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FEAR NOT -- I Am Your PEACE!

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FEAR NOT -- I Am Your PEACE!

My Child...

Fear not...you are never alone for I am with you!

Fear not...you are never left out for you are one with Me !

Fear not...you are never condemned, but always accepted! I not only love you...I like you!

Fear not...you are always adequate with My adequacy...no matter how helpless and inadequate you feel!

Fear not...you are alive with my everlasting, indestructible life, no matter how dead you feel inside! I am your Life!

I AM in your "right here, right now," whether it be suffering in a hospital room or struggling over a wardrobe choice in your closet...and everything in between...I am with you!

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ADVENT (Week 2) -- Fullness of PEACE in Jesus

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ADVENT (Week 2) -- Fullness of PEACE in Jesus

… The government will rest on his shoulders.
    And he will be called:
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
    Everlasting Father, PRINCE of PEACE.
His government and its PEACE will never end.

Oh how we long for PEACE — especially as our world is riddled with wars, violence, hatred, racism, suffering of all kinds. And hasn’t it always been so? This is nothing unusual in this fallen world.

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Thanksgiving: Overflowing with Gratitude

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Thanksgiving: Overflowing with Gratitude

Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,
having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith,
just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude. 
Colossians 2:6-7 NASB

Years ago, I taught writing to adult GED students.  Every Wednesday, we would do an exercise together as a class to practice writing a five-paragraph essay. As the end of November approached, I chose the topic of Thanksgiving.  I thought that in this age of “entitlement” it might be a double “win” for the students to count their blessings and practice their writing.

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