Sadness, Grief, and Depression
How is that for a title? After seeing that title, I commend you if you are still reading this devotional. The emotions listed are charged for many people. For some, these emotions are familiar [...]
Christian Community
I am taking a class called Discipleship in Community this quarter at Seminary. One of the books we are reading for the class is Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. I ran across a great quote [...]
tuneMyHeart – Journey In John
Over the next 21 days we want to go on a journey as a church community. Our hope is that this journey will lead us all into a deeper relationship with Jesus. As Ryan discussed [...]
Self-Reflection/Confession | Jonah 1:3
But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went down into [...]
Significance of Names | 2 Samuel 9:1-5
And David said, “Is there still anyone left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?” Now there was a servant of the house of Saul whose name [...]
Praying Psalm 139
This week, pray for someone else who has a need or is anxious. Use Psalm 139 to guide your prayer.
SKY, DESTINY, DREAMS, BUCKETS, SUFFERING
Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you used to dress yourself and walk wherever you wanted, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will [...]
Awaken My Soul
Fall Afresh - Bethel Music & Jeremy Riddle | The Loft Sessioins Awaken my soul, come awake To hunger, to seek, to thirst Awaken first love, come awake And do as You did, at [...]
An Awkward Question
Now for the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” NIV I Corinthians 7:1 At first glance, this can be a confusing verse. [...]
Friends of Jesus
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends and we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us
What About Those Horses?
I spent my college years at the University of Kansas. The school’s natural history museum is located just behind my old dormitory. One of the museum’s most prominent displays is Comanche, the taxidermied horse [...]
Open the Cage
As Americans, we seem obsessed with the concept of freedom from constraints. But how should Jesus’ followers practice freedom? Free to do what? Free to indulge our own desires, or free to obey and [...]
