Tag: devotional thoughts

Take Heart!

In this world you will have trouble. But, take heart! I have overcome the world. John 16:33

I love that verse – probably because it is so seeped in truth. These are words in red letters – spoken by Yeshua (Jesus) just hours before his arrest.

Shine With the Gifts God Has Given You

Don’t let the world take from you what God has given you! When we devalue our time or our work – or even ourselves – in the name of humbleness or modesty or some misplaced fear of pretentiousness, then we’re basically squandering our gifts.

Do Not Forget To Entertain Strangers

I was alone in the dining room.  This is a long room – the length of the church building – and I was at the end, near the kitchen, well away from the only entrance to the room.  As I was sorting bread, I turned around and a man was standing right next to me, his arms outstretched as if he was coming in for a hug.  He was tall, unkempt, unshaven, sweaty, filthy, and he smelled really bad.  I’d never seen him before.  But I hugged him anyway.  It felt wrong not to.  He slapped me on the back and said, “I’ve just been telling people about Jesus!”

You Aren’t An Impostor

I suffer from this on an extreme. It just is how my brain works. I’m not sure what triggers it — maybe it’s a subconscious reminder of a series of bad decisions through my teen and young adult years or maybe it’s just how I’m wired — but the entire time I’m writing, teaching, speaking, or just interacting with people in my day-to-day life, in the back of my mind I’m waiting for someone to expose me as a fraud. To claim and make sure everyone knows and understands that I don’t have the right to my authority, to my words, to my talents.

Devotion: Loving and Serving God

Even though I’ve done so much study for years and years, but I had a new revelation last week.

Don’t you just love it when God does that?