When I Rest, I Rust

My small group and I have been digging into how we trust God daily, and the other morning I felt God tugging at me to text these 3 questions to our group, and their answers rushed in with honesty and without haste. The Questions…1. Do you FIGHT like Jesus did? Meaning do you speak the

Make the Connection

I know I have a hard bend not to like being told what to do. I blame some of it on my Catholic school roots. There were a lot of “Do what I say, not as I do” expectations.  I remember listening to a school Mass one Friday when Father G’s sermon warned us about

Faith and Trust

I recently made a new friend from Haiti, and during our conversation, she said in a beautiful Haitian accent, “You know…Faith is KNOWING God can do it. But, trust is LETTING God do it.” Ooof. That statement knocked the wind out of me for a minute. It made me think about how I have a disconnect

Who Wants a Tee Shirt?

“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. Isaiah 43:18-20 Such a great scripture to start the new year! So encouraging but quite difficult

Trust

A dear friend and I were having a conversation this week, and in a moment of vulnerability, he shared, “If I’m being real, I have been following Jesus for several years, and yet I am bad at trusting God. My life growing up was too complicated and hard, and because of that, I can’t seem

Every Breath Counts

Over the holiday, an old friend reached out to me to wish us a Merry Christmas. It was good to hear his voice, but after a few moments, I could tell he had to say more than just the typical merriment and walking down memory lane.  He told me that his wife had been diagnosed

The Right Answer

The Right Answer I’ve been spending time in the book of Luke reading the Christmas story to catch the spirit of Christmas as God laid it out for us. Take a look with me. “In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin

It Wasn’t Supposed to Be Like This

It’s been a tough year. So many things have happened that were not part of the “return to normal” plan after COVID. The details are too numerous to list here, but I can tell you that our Christmas tree was out of the box and fully decorated early this year to force-feed the glow of

Knowing God

Guest Post: Kathy Roseborough My one prayer for the people I lead and love is that we would know God. Not just know of Him, but intimately know Him. Then, from that place of understanding, we could experience more of His presence and power than we ever imagined possible. Most believers would say they know

Third Time’s a Charm

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”  ~ African Proverb This past Wednesday, I needed a good proverb after I found my truck with a flat tire after church. But that one is filled with as much wisdom as I needed that evening. After 30 years