Nothing softens the heart like a baby’s eyes first fastening on your face. But a deep, core-to-core relationship with that tiny human being only becomes possible with its maturity. In the same way, our spiritual birth makes us alive to God; He comes into view....
With three visiting grandchildren I rarely get to see, savoring a week with our daughter I am rarely able to embrace, I’ve asked my friend, Shella, to craft this week’s posting. She recognizes when God is speaking to her as clearly as anyone I have...
There are some things that cannot be forced into being. Belief, respect, trust and love are four of them. Our chance to authentically experience these is lost, the moment anyone tries to force them. Guilt, shame, fear and intimidation can never produce what is real,...
We do not recognize the extent to which laws at work in us and around us are determining whether we will recognize God’s activity in our life. Very often we fail to experience Him, even though we want to, because our flawed preconceptions have shut...
A battle is being fought over us, to determine what we are going to be. For we are no longer what we once were, and “it has not yet been revealed what we shall be.” [1] Long ago, the light of knowing God flowed in man,...
When I think of Scripture, I do not equate it with the Bible -- but with the mind of God, the eternal words of God, the ethereal message from another domain coming to man -- not originating here with men, but there with God. Over a...
Until this lesson, I did not realize how potent a rhema is -- a spoken word, coming like a slice of light from the mind of God -- to instantaneously make us alive to Him. AND in thirty-two years of teaching, I have rarely sensed...
From ancient time, man has pondered the inexplicable organizing influence at work in the cosmos. Greek philosophers gave it a name; they called it the logos. Originally logos meant “word”, “speech,” “reason;” but it was gradually extended to refer to the underlying “order” or “reason”...
Last week I described my friend's amazement to find God speaking to her through journal entries written in her own hand. Far from being silent, Jesus was speaking; she just hadn't had the ear to hear. This week Julie describes that continuing transformation in her...
Even when I was at enmity with Christianity, contemptuous of all that Jesus is to me now, I knew His voice. I didn’t know it was my Redeemer speaking in me, but His voice filtered through my soul. “Amazing Grace how sweet the sound that...