Impasse

Impasse – Lay It Down!

  Impasse! None of its dictionary meanings make me smile. (stalemate, standoff, deadlock, gridlock, bottleneck, dead end)  Here’s what it sounds like: “I’m not moving until you do, and that’s because I’m right and you’re wrong. And even if you’re not wrong, you certainly aren’t as right as I am.” And so we stand on […]

church

Getting Ready For Church

  So, how do you get ready for church? I know the physical logistics of the preparation. You decide what to wear (unless you are a woman and have done it the night before.) Then a little breakfast and in the haste to leave the house, family tensions can mount. Maybe a bit of arguing […]

recount

Demand A Recount!

  It’s a delight to be able to draw clean water amid those drinking from polluted streams. “With joy you will drink deeply
from the fountain of salvation!” Isaiah 12:3 New Living Translation  It’s a joy to gain strength while others around you are losing theirs. “Don’t be dejected and sad, for the joy of the […]

Trust

What To Do When You Don’t Know What To Do

“We don’t know what to do; we’re looking to you.” II Chronicles 20:12 The Message   Do you know what to do when you don’t know what to do! Jehoshaphat did. As Israel’s leader he had just been given devastating news. A ‘vast’ horde of a confederacy of three nations was ready to attack. God’s […]

trust

Borderless Trust

“(Israel) even spoke against God himself, saying,
 ‘God can’t give us food in the wilderness. Yes, he can strike a rock so water gushes out,
 but he can’t give his people bread and meat.’” Psalm 78:19,20 New Living Translation  I love it when in a worship service ‘we’ quit singing and ‘I’ start singing. It’s not that […]

God's Visit

When God Visits

“ Before long your enemies will build ramparts against your walls and encircle you and close in on you from every side. They will crush you into the ground, and your children with you . Your enemies will not leave a single stone in place, because you did not recognize it when God visited you.” Luke 19:43,44 New […]