31 When they had prayed, the place where they were assembled was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God boldly. (Acts 4:31 CSB) Sometimes we to be shaken so that our spirit is stirred. It is very easy to become...
Mind & Flesh
24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I myself am serving the law of God, but with my flesh, the law of sin. (Romans 7:24-25 CSB) The mind and the...
Who are we Fooling?
15 For I do not understand what I am doing, because I do not practice what I want to do, but I do what I hate (Romans 7:15 CSB) Have you ever found yourself doing something that you know is wrong but you proceed to do it anyhow? I think we all find...
Without Pretense
17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peace-loving, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without pretense. (James 3:17 CSB) There are a lot of agendas in our world. We must continually navigate the waters of what truly is admits a sea of varying expectations. The...
Respect
3 Honor belongs to the person who ends a dispute,but any fool can get himself into a quarrel. (Proverbs 29:3 CSB) My father did not suffer fools, I am much the same way. I learned early on in life that picking a fight was easy, extracting oneself from it was...