Inside the house a chair is found to rest and sit a while. Outside that chair is still a chair, even if it’s lost its style. Inside a rug keeps the floor warm, adding to its decor. Outside that rug is still a rug, even when dragged out the back door. They why for the […]
Archives: Teachings
The War of Words: Needing Repentence
There is a battle in our city. It is a battle of words. Words of hate, sprayed in bullets intended for someone else. Words of domestic conflict, beating fists into statements. Words of activism, community, hoping to begin implementing good words. Words of anger and despair for the darts these words impale; the heart of […]
Does God Spook You?
Do you remember the movie, “The Wizard of Oz”? Do you recall how the Wizard of Oz was fiery and scary and unyielding when the four travelers came before him? They all shook in his presence, with the cowardly lion even jumping out the window. Is that your view of the Lord? While it is […]
Notes to Sylvia and Herb
Herb & Sylvia: Thank you so much for the gifts! I’m so grateful that the Lord tucked you both into my life. I am honored to serve as your shepherd. We are all under God’s “umbrella” of protection. Hi Herb: We missed you Sunday. I’m sorry about your injury & am keeping you in prayer […]
Forgetting the Old/Embracing the New
Forget the old – Don’t call to mind the former (learn from 2011, but don’t live in it). Hebrew word “zaw-kar”, meaning “call or remember”. Get rid of automatic redial. If God has forgotten our sins, then they don’t exist under the blood what was done to you isn’t your fault; it’s how you dealt […]
Where Is God When It Hurts
Death has broken into the atmosphere of your life. Its vapors have left you as though you cannot breathe. It thrusts its force into your being with certain accuracy. All you see ahead is a cavity of blackness. How could it get any darker; can’t tell if day or night. It has rippling effects, which […]
The Mother Qualities of God
A. Scriptures & Qualities 1. Tender – Luke 1:78; Song of Songs 2:4 2. Comforts – II Cor. 1:3-4; Phil. 2:1 3. Thinks best – John 12:46-47 4. Nurtures – Ephesians 6:4 5. Gracious – Isaiah 30:18 6. Love of mother – Is. 49:13-16 – doesn’t forget- nurturing – Isaiah 66:7-14 B. Scriptures & Character […]
Five Levels of God
Ms Kuebler-Ross provided a very helpful process in dealing with grief issues. We all realize that people cross through these levels at emotional ranges and with various time frames. We also bring along to this table other pain we bare, so the levels are not as easily to discern. I’d like to provide to Ms. […]
The Elders Give Thanks
When I was a new believer, I attended an Evangelical church in South Minneapolis. One Sunday a missionary spoke. This man was a live wire. He always said that when he was a drunk he was a complete drunk, and when he got saved every part of him got saved, including his emotions. So, at […]
Judgement
The Pharisees only brought the subject up to try to trick Jesus, but He used it as a great history lesson for the future. As you know, the rabbis prior and to that time disregarded the Mosaic directive in Deuteronomy 24: 1-4, where divorce was permissible if the wife was found to be “unclean” (Hebrew […]