now is the year, today is the day
Many people have started all kinds of New Year promises to themselves. Changing exercise, diet, and spending habits seem to top most lists. I remember the start of the 1995 New Year. I had the usual goals. I wanted to stay healthy … make more money … take a better vacation, win more basketball games … perhaps land a college coaching job, and to buy more fun stuff for me and my hobbies. Then in May of 1995 GOD convicted and softened my heart and then re-arranged my search for significance. Since then life has not been the same. My …
Your On Genesis Week
“God, make a fresh start in me, shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life.” (Psalm 51:10, MSG) “Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. (Psalms 51:10, NIV) ——- —- —- —- God spoke the world into existence, and he spoke you into your mother’s womb. Even now, he can speak into the chaos of your life to bring it shape and form. This is a Genesis event (Psalm 51:10, MSG) – where God speaks into the void and the darkness of your life, creating a fresh start for you. …
God Meant It For Good
“… You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result …” (Genesis 50:20 NIV) ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ Editor’s note – Although I know we offered this devotional recently, it teaches the absolute necessity for applying our faith to the past, to the present, and to the future. How will you allow the living water from Christ’s fountain to flow this year into the deepest crevices of your memories, fears, anxieties, and hopes? – jw The life of Joseph was anything but peaceful. It was filled with youthful folly, broken dreams, …
Your Own Genesis Week
“God, make a fresh start in me, shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life.” (Psalm 51:10 MSG) “Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.” (Psalms 51:10 NIV) God spoke the world into existence, and he spoke you into your mother’s womb. Even now, he can speak into the chaos of your life to bring it shape and form. This is a Genesis event (Psalm 51:10 MSG) – where God speaks into the void and the darkness of your life, creating a fresh start for you. God can create something …
It's Not The HOW; It's The WOW!
Suddenly, the angel was joined by a vast host of others – the armies of heaven – praising God: “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and peace on earth to all whom God favors.” (Luke 2:13-14, NLT) ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ Long ago and far away, there was a teacher who worked painstakingly to teach me how to play the guitar. Every week, we’d climb up and down musical stairs crafted from the pentatonic, hexatonic, heptatonic, and octatonic scales. This emphasis upon technique frustrated me, and I grew to hate it so much that I abandoned the guitar – until …
