I listened intently as my pastor shared from Ephesians 5:1-6 this weekend. Thank you Pastor John! Here’s what I caught and contemplated: Immorality, impurity are set against the perfect plan of God. It includes anything sexually that is not Gods’s design as part of marriage as described in Genesis. Hebrews 13:4 further clarifies there is […]
I listened intently as my pastor shared from Ephesians 5:1-6 this weekend. Thank you Pastor John! Here’s what I caught and contemplated: Immorality, impurity are set against the perfect plan of God. It includes anything sexually that is not Gods’s design as part of marriage as described in Genesis. Hebrews 13:4 further clarifies there is […]
Years ago, my wife and I were co-leading a week long summer camp in central Wisconsin. We showed up a day early to make sure everything was in place. Car by car, families pulled up and dropped their precious cargo of junior high students. When it was all said and done we had about thirty […]
There is no doubt that our situation can overwhelm us. It can cause our emotions to spiral to a place of anger, frustration, hopelessness, and despair. We can feel ourselves sinking in the water instead of being on top with Jesus. It is in these times that we don’t “feel” God is present or caring. […]
A thought hit me today as I was watering our seed starts for our garden. In some of the packs there are weeds that I’m watering. Why am I doing that? Of course I pulled out the ones that were blatant weeds(these are easily distinguishable once the real seed start comes up. In […]
Some days life is defeating. We feel like we never get it right. Furthermore satan is on the ready to point out those failures in full color replay in our minds. It is then we need to go back to and meditate in the truth of His Word The flesh wars against the spirit […]
We know from scripture that there is a battle between flesh and spirit and that we are to walk in the spirit. We cannot accomplish this apart from Christ. In fact, to truly overcome the flesh and all its desires, we must belong to Jesus. We must give up our rights, dreams, and […]
We live in a multi-dimensional world; physical, spiritual, mental and emotional. At times we forget about the spiritual and live primarily in the physical. Unfortunately it’s like leaving your back door open in a high crime neighborhood. It’s only a matter of time before you will have an intruder. We must learn that the […]