A Spiritual WRESTling Match There has been so much wonderful, uplifting, scriptural encouragement on FB these days. I guess you could say there always is. Perhaps, though, some are feeling just a bit intimidated; feeling they don’t quite live up to the ideal picture of every believer standing armed with their five stones to slay [...]
Joshua 24:15 (NIV)" But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” Perhaps [...]
While reading John’s Gospel in preparation for our April Family Prayer Day at Appalachian House of Prayer here in Boone, NC, I was taken by how much was shared by Jesus with the Disciples (and others) in the few short days between His triumphal entry into Jerusalem and His death on the cross. I had [...]
I'm thinking of the many Church sanctuaries, homes and houses of prayer where, in hushed tones, the "saints" have gathered (some for decades) to implore God to "visit", to "send" to "move" in their midst. Faith-full pray-ers. You and I both know a lot about this because we are/have been "one" of them. Nothing "bad" about [...]
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." These words, penned by Elizabeth Barrett Browning of England in the 1800's, have been co-opted in two different centuries now by many a love-stricken mortal in the pursuit of espousing undying love for another. Originally meant for her husband, Elizabeth's sonnet is thought to be [...]
I so wish you could see these pictures better because, not only was it "HAT DAY!" at The Nation Christian Academy in Pt. St. Lucie, FL., it was also "World Shapers Club Day!" For the second month in a row, students at The Nation Christian Academy are the authors of our World Shapers Club prayer [...]
Out of many streams, "one" river or "movement." I was excited while in Europe recently to find that many of the prayer and missions groups that had assembled together had their start/conception in the outflow of the Lusanne and AD2000 & Beyond movements back in the late 1990's. It was inspiring to hear about how [...]
Philippians 3:12-14 - Pressing Toward the Goal 12 Not that I have already attained,[a] or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. 13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have [b]apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those [...]
After a rather heated discourse late one evening some years ago with a close family member, this question was shouted at me in great frustration, "Don't you want your children to be happy?" ZING! POW! GOTCHA! OUCH! Wisely, the Holy Spirit led me to diffuse the situation and not respond to the query at that [...]
"THANKS!" for your encouragement, prayers and giving. It has been a tremendously rewarding year as we have seen God grow World Shapers and open doors for ministry in new and not-so-new places around the globe. Mary has traveled. Esther has ministered locally. Our family of FB friends has grown and the number of those "catching [...]
