A Profitable Place To Be
If you have been living in a cave recently and have emerged to check your email, I’m glad you also took opportunity to stop by the TT blog today. While you were arranging rocks in your cave the world’s financial structure has been falling apart. I checked the headlines yesterday and saw that EU economic…
The Best Blog I’ve Ever Written
Okay, I just chose the above title in order to get you to read today’s post about leaders and followers. I repent of the manipulation but really hope it works. Being entrusted with ministry challenges in recent months, I’ve tended to scope out bible passages that involve interaction between leaders and followers in order to…
Talking God
Does God speak to you? That’s a very relevant question because we are called to love, serve, obey and enjoy God. It is then reasonable to conclude that, if we are to do those things, it is necessary for us to hear from Him. From time to time this issue pops up in a discussion…
A Needful Exchange
“…the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness…” Isaiah 61:3 What a drudgery life can be when our wardrobe is nothing other than cloaks woven with the threads of a heavy spirit. Sunshine and blue skies seem hollow. The loud laughter of fretless children are irritating. A banquet fit for a king is only…
Calling Out The Clutchers Among Us
There’s no need for me to avoid it because it is obvious to me that the individual God is currently using in my life to impact me is my six year old son, Landon. What makes it all the more clear is that there is no possible way that the boy could understand the dynamics…
Winners
Undeniable struggles within you. Clear obstacles in front of you. Satan against you and temptation around you. This is the reality of the saints of God still living upon earth. Nobody is immune and none of us are exempted as we attest to the fact that we are residents of a realm to which we…
Kitchen Floors & Towering Mountains
So I’m waking up my son yesterday morning for school and finding it as it usually is: a challenging endeavor. The little fellow loves him some sleepy-time and prefers half-day stints under his covers if permissible. Yesterday, after a prolonged succession of grunts and moans he finally poked his face out from under his blanket…
A Song Which Humbles
Think with me today on the amazing reality that you have been made right with God. There is not a hair-breadth of sin that keeps you from His glorious presence. He swallows you in grace and taste no bitterness of sins which you assume remain on you. Jesus Christ – incarnate! Jesus Christ – in…
Ridiculously Slammed
It looks like the demands of this weekend are going to be larger than my capacity to handle so please excuse me for not blogging until Monday…Sunday at the earliest. Have a superb weekend and I’ll look forward to picking back up with you next week. Blessings, Jeff
Just How Saved Am I?
This is for any and all who have bowed their hearts in trust to Jesus Christ: you need to be very careful not to make the following mistake. If you give in to this particular temptation it is really going to cost you. Precious components of life such as peace, joy, rest, gratitude, praise and…