The power of life and death resides in our tongues. Words created this world…and we reveal and create reality by speaking. We reveal the reality of what lies in our hearts by the words we speak. We expose others to that reality–and sometimes they receive it as their own. That ...
Read More »The Same Love: John and Job
Two men, each with a book of the bible named for him, one was “the disciple whom Jesus loved,” one of the inner three. The other was, in God’s own words, “blameless, and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.” John was a typical, hard-working fisherman at the ...
Read More »Can anything good come from Facebook?
The number 40 has powerful connections in Scripture: Moses on Mount Sinai, the Flood, the temptations of Christ and the desert wanderings to name a few. For a mother in Colorado, and the thousands who joined her Facebook Prayer group, a recent 40-day period on social media told a new Bible story! The ...
Read More »Ashes of the Past or Beauty in the Present?
“To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified. ~ Isaiah ...
Read More »Dangerous Business (Don’t Leave Anything Out)
How serious is the failure to follow all directions given? What happens when just one step is left out? Surgeons and nursing staff know the consequences: failure to follow all directions leads to 250,000 deaths per year! And not counting surgical supplies correctly results in “surgical souvenirs,” tools left inside ...
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