Join me in reading from The Message, John 8: 3-11:The religion scholars and Pharisees led in a woman who had been caught in an act of adultery. They stood her in plain sight of everyone and said, "Teacher, this woman was caught red-handed in the act of adultery. Moses, in the Law, gives orders to stone such persons. What do you say?" They were Continue Reading
Knock Knock, Who’s There?
Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. Revelation 3:20*****(I'm still on a blogging break until the new year. I have prescheduled pictures and verses posted for the next couple days. I hope they encourage you. God bless you all!) Continue Reading
Update on My Talk to Incarcerated Teens
First and foremost, you need to know YOUR prayers made a HUGE difference when I shared a message to incarcerated teens yesterday. God answered our prayers above and beyond what I could have imagined. For starters, the Christmas service at the facility had record attendance. Normally the ministry has about 40-60 kids in attendance. Since it's a Continue Reading
Personal Prayer Request
I'd love your prayers for this Sunday. I will be sharing a 15 minute message/testimony to about 40 - 60 teenage incarcerated boys and girls. So many of these kids are deeply wounded and alone, which makes Christmas an extra emotional time for them. I sense a message of forgiveness, healing and love brewing in my heart. I plan to skim the surface of Continue Reading
Encouragement from God’s Word for Today
Let the Word of Christ—the Message—have the run of the house. Give it plenty of room in your lives. Instruct and direct one another using good common sense. And sing, sing your hearts out to God! Let every detail in your lives—words, actions, whatever—be done in the name of the Master, Jesus, thanking God the Father every step of the way.Colossians Continue Reading
God’s Wide Open Door
Gotta love God's Word: By entering through faith into what God has always wanted to do for us—set us right with him, make us fit for him—we have it all together with God because of our Master Jesus. And that's not all: We throw open our doors to God and discover at the same moment that he has already thrown open his door to us. We find ourselves Continue Reading