Delight Yourself in the Lord

by | Aug 19, 2012 | Faith

This is something that one of my pastors shared a couple of weeks ago. It helped me with some perspective and I’m hoping it will do the same for you. Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. (Psalm 37:4, ESV emphasis added)...

4 Things I Learned from Fasting

by | Aug 3, 2012 | Faith

If you’ve never considered fasting as a spiritual discipline, I can heartily recommend it. There’s more to a fast than just giving up food and it can yield great results in your life and improve your relationship with God. I don’t fast a lot. I eat a...

Prayer in Fear of Judgement

by | Jul 15, 2012 | Faith

Lord, I’m very disturbed by my reading in Hosea 9 today. I know I’ve read it before. But today it scares me. For some reason I can’t get to a comfortable “clinical” distance from the text. There’s a little fear in my heart. Father,...

Excess, Identification, and Fasting

by | Jul 14, 2012 | Faith

Rhonda Frazier (Super Science Mom) recommended 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess (Amazon link) to me. Well, really, she recommended it to all her closest friends on Facebook. I bought it yesterday for my Kindle (it was $2.99 yesterday, $4.99 today) and...

Filters Change Everything

by | Apr 25, 2012 | Faith

Yes, I did just put an Instagram picture of a toilet on my blog. It illustrates something: filters change everything. What is common or even unclean can take on a new life with a different set of filters and a different perspective. That’s why it’s so...