We are in week three of looking at Psalm 86. We began this journey as a way to explore the idea of praying scripture. God gave Psalm 86 to me as a catalyst for my daily prayer time. We learned some background to Psalm 86 in week one, then we
I mentioned last week that I began praying Psalm 86, specifically verses five through twelve. I’m not exactly sure why I limited myself to those verses. Perhaps it’s because verse five begins with “You are forgiving and good, O Lord…” After all, I’ve been taught the ACTS acronym for prayer,
For over a year now, I have used Psalm 86 as my daily prayer guide. When I first began, I just used verses 5-12. At some point, I’m not sure when, I began to pray through the entire psalm. Prayer is a Must We all know that God’s Word tells
I tend to think a day is good or bad, easy or difficult, filled with fun or boring. It’s not that I’m unaware of experiencing more than one emotion in a day. However, I generally perceive one emotion outweighs and supersedes all others. Dual Emotions God has reminded me through
We’ve spent the last four weeks discussing different aspects of our relationship with God. In addition, I’ve spent these last four weeks packing up my house, saying goodbye too many times, and entering a new rhythm of life. I am grateful God gave me words to share with you that
We’ve been crafting an understanding of our relationship with God over the lasts several weeks. We must recognize we relate to God in multi-faceted ways. He is our friend, our authority as the Sovereign King, and our source of wisdom and counsel. Provider and Portion I see one final element
We’ve been discussing various elements of our relationship with God this month. We began by looking at the idea that God is our friend. Last week, we examined the concept that God is to be our authority because He is the Sovereign Lord. Many of us struggle to comprehend the
We don’t live our daily lives contemplating Kings and Queens. Admittedly, we follow Britian’s royalty with intense curiosity. However, we are not under the rule of a sovereign authority. Living Under Authority We understand the concept of authority. For example, as children, we knew our parents were our supreme authority.
At the end of July, I posted the word relationship as the word of the week on my social media. I followed that with the blog post “How to Live into Jesus’ “Good Life” Amid Paradox and Tension.” In my blog I stated the following. “God aches for a relationship
I wrote this blog from my trailer. We parked our trailer among other trailers at Pinecrest, the Missouri District of the Nazarene’s premier campground. I’m enjoying the peaceful setting and beautiful scenery. However, I am drinking coffee out of my Trinity Pines Camp mug. In case you don’t know, Trinity
