Finding Life beyond the struggles
I’ve briefly touched on Joseph, Jesus’ step-father, in previous posts, and today I’m going to do it again. I’ve said before that Joseph is almost an “add on” to Mary, a footnote in the life of Jesus. He’s often seen as a figurine in the manger scene, there to complete the picture of a family.... Continue Reading →
So yesterday I was driving home and I had so many thoughts running through my head. My main one being along the lines of how I feel time’s end pressing down on me and how I deal with it by simultaneously running from it and feeling like I’m not doing enough. How I’ve been waiting... Continue Reading →
When you think of being anointed with oil, what do you think of? Like me, do you first think of being empowered by the Holy Spirit for something? What does being anointed by the Holy Spirit even mean? In one of the most famous and most quoted Psalms, The Shepherd Psalm, David speaks in the... Continue Reading →
Today I want to bring you some insight from a passage in Psalm 17. Before I do, I want to remind us of a very known bible verse that we constantly quote. It's the one from Ephesians 6 and I love how the CJB versions puts it. For we are not struggling against human beings,... Continue Reading →
We've been talking about prayer in the small church group I'm in the last few weeks and I just want to ask you, How's your prayer life? Photo by Monstera on Pexels.com Do you pray consistently? When you pray, what are you hoping to achieve? Are you just praying to pray, because it is something... Continue Reading →
"And whenever you are fasting, do not look gloomy and sour and dreary like the hypocrites, for they put on a dismal countenance, that their fasting may be apparent to and seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full already. But when you fast, perfume your head and wash... Continue Reading →
Photo by Samuel Silitonga on Pexels.com And the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to tend and guard and keep it...And out of the ground the Lord God formed every [wild] beast and living creature of the field and every bird of the air and brought them to... Continue Reading →
David was a great man, a great king. David was so close to God that he was likened to a messenger of God, a being that is constantly in God's very presence. (2 Sam. 14:17;20) Yet David was still human and made mistakes. Perhaps one of the biggest mistakes was inaction when he should've acted,... Continue Reading →
