Fresh heart for the journey
Question #5“What do you want me to do for you?” Luke 18:41 ESV Jesus seldom provides easy answers, but He always asks hard questions! As Jesus, surrounded by a crowd approaches Jericho, a blind beggar begins shouting “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” Rebuked by those near him to quiet down and […]
Question #4 “But who do you say that I am?” Matthew 16:15 Jesus never asks a question because He doesn’t know the answer. His inquiries are not to gain knowledge, but to probe hearts. As Jesus and his disciples stopped in Caesarea Philippi he asked them a question fairly easy to answer: “Who […]
Question #3 “Do you believe I can do this?” Matthew 9:28 NIV “You of little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?” Matthew 14:31 NIV Scripture makes it abundantly clear that God is serious about gaining our trust … to truly believe that He is trustworthy. God’s patience with our learning curve is […]
Question #2 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?” Matthew 7:3 NIV This verse speaks of the judgmental hypocrisy that Jesus condemned. Helping someone get a speck of sawdust out of her eye is commendable … if […]
Question # 1: “Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?” Matthew 6:27 Question #2: “Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye yet fail to perceive the wooden beam in your own eye?” Matthew 7:2 Question #3 “Do you believe I can do this?” Matthew 9:28 “Why do […]
Where we get our information is actually more important than the information we get! Often when people begin a sentence with “They say …”, I want to stop them and ask, “Who said that and where did they get their information?” Call me skeptical but not everything we hear is factual. Some of it […]
I’m not attempting to push you into the spirit of Christmas yet (although for many of you it’s already too late!). But I am fascinated by the comparison of Christmases 100 years ago and those of today. Our celebrations today have some of the same parallels as those of the 1920s. Back then most […]
Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway. – Greg Tamblyn Sometimes me think, ‘What is friend?’ Then me say, ‘Friend is someone to share last cookie with.’ –Cookie Monster Sometimes I feel like life has been less about working and a whole lot more about collecting friends! […]
“Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that spoil the vineyards, for our vineyards are in blossom.” Song of Solomon 2:15 ESV It appears strange that the bride-to-be in this Scriptural story appears to be encouraging her fiancé to stage a fox hunt! Yet to Solomon’s readers, foxes represented potential damage to gardens and vineyards, so […]
The last song is over … the performer exits the stage and thinks they are finished … but the audience is not through. They remain standing, ‘ovating’ and whistling, strongly announcing their desire to hear more. And they get an ‘encore’ which simply means again, or some more. One of the longest encores in […]
I am a pastor, teacher, and encourager. I am a happy husband and leader of a family tribe now numbering 13. I am President of Fresh Heart Ministries and consider called of God to help you grow in your spiritual walk … let you know how special you are to God … and have some fun while doing so.