POSTS & COmments

“The Lord is my shepherd. The Lord restores my soul.” - Psalm 23 When we stress over self-improvement and such we may be getting in God's way. The Lord is the restorer of our souls. And much more. “Restore” translates from the Hebrew action verb shuwb (sounds like...

“Staying right at the center of God’s love, keeping your arms open and outstretched, ready for the mercy of our Master, Jesus Christ. This is the unending life, the real life!” (Jude 21, The Message) Evil wants us to look too far back or too far forward. Back to the...

The blood of Jesus, God’s Son, continually cleanses us and empowers us for life. (John 1:7) (click Source below for full post) John: Good morning, Papa, thank you for the blood in our physical bodies that continually cleanses and feeds us. More so, thank you for the...

The Big Leboski (The Big Deal really. I just wanted to use the movie title. LOL!), in all the struggles we have with relationships and “know”ing each other, is that we distract from knowing God. This dissipates us. “And this is the real and eternal life: That they...

(Click Source below for full post.) John: Thank you, Papa, for creating me and for staying with me. Thank you for thinking me up. In my very human humanity, I get to be like Jesus, “found in fashion as a human.” Thank you for helping me get through very human and...

“Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb” (Revelation 22:1, TNIV) (click “Source” below for full post) I asked God: Please tell me more about healing and grace and the throne and You...

The moment we turn God’s free grace into law-keeping and check-listing our works, we die. We may love the Old Testament; it gets us ready for Jesus’ obedience and grace, but the moment we adopt or adapt some sort of law and make that a mark of success or failure,...