August 14, 2023
#682. HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
June, 2023 One of the tenets of Stephen Ministry is that we are caregivers and Jesus is the Curegiver. I think this principle applies to every conversation I have when I am reaching out to someone who is struggling with something. A wonderful book called Coffee with Jesus (by David Wilkie) illustrates it like this:
August 15, 2023
Golf Tuesday and its effects…
#683 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
May, 2023 Gambling. A lot of our senior golfers are gamblers. I cannot judge because I play our daily golf game and mess around some with fantasy sports. But gambling worries me. It stirs a desire for money in my blood, and isn’t that just an invitation to greed in my soul? It needs perspective…I have to monitor my heart if I am gambling. Most of my gambling friends find it very entertaining, and their real passion is for winning, not the money. I get that. I don’t see it wreaking havoc on their moral or economic lives. But watch out for the money.
August 16, 2023
#684 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
April, 2023 He’s done it again…
“The flesh ain’t nothin’ but the bark on a tree
I just started layin’ my burdens down
The tree ain’t nothin’ but the soul in me
I just started layin’ my burdens down.” –Willie Nelson
That is a wonderful epitaph possibility.
August 17, 2023
#685 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
May, 2023 Another thing I love about God is His patient instruction. He will show me how I should have handled something differently, and I will acknowledge it. Then He will bring me to another situation which seems completely different but really isn’t, and I’ll react in the same way. Somehow He will link those two events together and I will see the connection, and I will grow. A good teacher re-teaches.
August 18, 2023
#686 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
April, 2023 Those idyllic moments…we all have them. If I could live on only those moments, faith would be easy. I think heaven might be like that. When I suddenly realize how incredibly beautiful this world is while recognizing I didn’t have anything to do with making it that way. I just get to enjoy it. God is training me to be ready for that.
August 19, 2023
#687 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
June, 2023 I know some people who would scoff at the notion of a spiritual side to things: “Life on earth–what you see is what you get.” Everything we have learned about the universe, the earth, the culture, and our own bodies tells us that it goes much deeper than that. Becoming aware of and accepting that which is unseen is the doorway to our spiritual side.
August 20, 2023
A sweltering Family Sunday…
#688 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
August, 2023 I have wistfully envied my parent friends who have convinced their children to settle and raise their own families near to them. We love having Zack and Kallie and Harlie and Elliotte and Mason nearby. I’m in Port Townsend now visiting Nate and Annalisa and Ayla (and Tom, Annalisa’s dad). There is something to be said for the six-month-ish interval reunions–it looks to me like God is moving them along in leaps and bounds on their own life journeys. Great is His faithfulness. And I gotta admit–I would take Washington over Texas anytime in the summer!
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