Faith can appear foolish to the unbelievers. Imagine what Noah’s neighbors thought as he built the Ark (Genesis 6:13-22). The Ark was roughly 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, 45 feet high with the capacity to hold over 500 stockcars. Really, take a second to ponder what you would think and feel if construction of…
Month: February 2021
We have a chicken named Peaches, and she has been an egg eater since the day we adopted her several years ago. This means she will find eggs and crack them open and eat them. Peaches should have been killed for this behavior as it is contagious in the flock, but she received a pardon…
Not all positions of power look or even feel powerful. But the most powerful thing we can do is to pray and have faith. We have countless examples of bold faith and prayer in the Bible: -March around the wall (Joshua 6:1–27) -Prepare a sacrifice without fire (1 Kings 18:1-39) But this is not always…
I should have gotten out of bed last night when I woke up thinking about a story, so I pray the Holy Spirit helps me share this message as it was intended. It is a story in John I have read multiple times but never understood as I do this morning. Jesus and the Samaritan…
Sometimes when I am in scripture, even scripture I have read countless times a word, phrase, or sentence jumps off the page and bites me. I feel the power in the words, it speaks to me as if beckoning me to stay a little while. To linger, to dig deeper, and to feel. Last night…
This has been on my heart the last few days and I wanted to share. Many gather the courage to go to Church and instead of the welcoming embrace of brothers and sisters in Christ they face condemnation which frankly should be a Four-letter word, but unfortunately, it has far too many letters. Jesus had…
Walking back from the mailbox suddenly a tiny dust devil kicked up in my pasture. For anyone unfamiliar with the term, it is a small whirlwind over land, visible as a column of dust and debris. In this case it was mostly comprised of dirt and leaves and about 30-40 feet tall. As it crossed…
Last year I started getting this feeling when I was reading scripture if I could put this feeling into words it said, “ask God to give you a mountain”. I felt it repeatedly probably because I did NOT ask. It scared me, not the feeling but of being obedient. What if I asked God to…