What joy, peace, and hope are found in walking with the Lord!
Why would I ever put my hope in anything or anyone else?
Lord, help me to forget not your benefits...
Our little granddaughter Lottie has been diagnosed with a congenital heart defect. Please pray that God will pour out His grace, healing, strength and wisdom on Tyler, Elizabeth and Lottie. 🙏🏼 https://t.co/0fqkYSp89U
The Lord loves to have the hearts of his children talk to him; he delights to hear them spread out their wants before him and order their case with arguments and prevail with them. Oh, then, never be slack in your pleadings which are pleasant to God as fragrant incense.
I've been a pastor of some sort in OK since at least 2004, &this lack of change is not surprising. What is surprising & saddening is the heart change in the rise of anger, hatred, divisiveness, &fear among church members. OK has changed a lot in that time, and not for the better.
We tend to think of ��youthful passions” as sexual sin. But look where Paul goes with the idea:
“flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace… Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels.” (2 Tim 2:22-23)
Call me old fashioned (like circa. 2014 evangelical), but I appreciate folks like Russell Moore, Tim Keller, and Gavin Ortlund.
There, I said it. Shoot me.
Terrible news: Ronald Acuña Jr. has a complete tear of the ACL in his left knee, and will have season-ending surgery. #Braves star had surgery for complete tear of the right ACL in July 2021, and was slowed for much of 2022 season as he recovered from that. Now, the other knee.
Note to self:
“To “wait” on God is not simply to mark time; rather, it is to live in confident expectation of his action on our behalf. It is to refuse to run ahead of him in trying to solve our problems for ourselves. Thus, just as Isaiah called on the people of his own day...
to trust God to solve their problems, he calls on the exiles in the age to come to do the same thing. If they are worn out and weary, hardly daring to believe that there is any future for them, the God of all strength can give them exactly what they need at the right time...
Need Audiobook recommendations because I have 2 Audible credits about to expire! I generally like to use credits on more expensive books, classics, Christian classics, series or bundles (already have bundles of Lewis, Tolkien & Austen), or books that I may read more than once.