The great test of how deeply our hearts are submitted to His will may come when we are called upon to love our enemies. Continue reading

  Before the rooster crows, three times thou wilt deny.Three times you'll disavow my name and swear by earth and sky.Three times, not one or two or three,you'll vow we've never metThree times you'll protest, shout, and curse,three times, three… Continue reading

  The day calls.It cries with harsh urgency.It commands and harasses us into submission to get up and going …… yet, where?So …We pause.We wait.We connect and collect.We listen.We lift up our souls.Then we move. " Let me hear in… Continue reading

So… here is Jonathan's inventory … Audacious, if yet, tentative faith in God to save by many or by few.One sword.A friend. That was it and that was enough. What is in your inventory? " Jonathan said to the young… Continue reading

 “I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.”   – II Corinthians 8:8 There is something within you that is full of sincere love, something that desires to… Continue reading

".. He said 'No more of this…" and he touched his ear and healed him." No more of this … No more violence.No more retaliation.No more waiting for the moment of our calling.No more delay for redemption with all its… Continue reading

Like Simon the Sorcerer, we can become addicted to power and wealth and see the realm of the genuine Spirit of God and grace as either threat or opportunity to gain more power and wealth of ourselves. Peter names the… Continue reading

   unsplash-logojesse orrico “… make full proof of thy ministry.” – from II Timothy 4:5 Ministry is a full and rewarding life. Every day can be different and exciting and working with people can be a heart-warming and gratifying experience.… Continue reading

The church is part of a brand new order in God's Kingdom where human authority is not required to legitimize its message and deeds. It is neither required nor desired, recognized nor sought. It is a strange and wonderful movement… Continue reading

  At the wall of the world, God!With outstretched hands. We bang into the unmovable wall and call it …Wrath or we run into theOutstretched,Everlasting,Ever lovingArms of God.   "If this Book means anything it means that at the wall of… Continue reading