Five Ways God Never Changes Harvest. To reap. A gathering of crops. A verb and a noun. When I think of harvesting, I think of gathering and taking. I think of the plants who worked so hard for the past season to grow, nurture, and mature the fruit. Suddenly, its time to let go. Harvest is a season of change. A season from going to sparse to plenty. From having nothing to having everything. I don’t live in a culture…
Eleven Reasons Why We Can Praise God What if God is calling you to something super hard? God has definitely called me (and our entire family) to something SUPER hard. We announced big changes last week. But I’m not the only one who has every faced big changes or a big calling. In fact, God has shown me some amazing truths as my Bible study girls and I have been walking through Genesis. At first I wasn’t sure whether I…
Set Fire to Fear by PAUSING When God spoke the sun into being, did the fire burn slow and get bigger and bigger into the flame it is now? Or did it burst forth into a fireball of beauty, light, and life-giving warmth? When God spoke the sun in creation on that fourth day, what kind of light existed before it? Sometimes these deep questions find me here in my ordinary days. On the days when mornings come early and…
Three Reasons Why We Can Rest in Prayer What does it mean to rest in prayer? “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have…