When did we lose our wonder? When did we start seeing miracles as commonplace, and blessings as expected? When did grace cease to be amazing to us? Since I have returned from Haiti, these questions have been running through my mind, so this is what I have concluded. It seems to me that the church […]
My First Trip to Haiti
I hardly know where to begin describing my trip to Haiti. My life will forever be changed by that experience. We arrived in Haiti Friday night around dinner time, so we picked our beds and went into the dining hall/ team center for our dinner. The next day, we didn’t really have a set […]
The Excellence of Love
A Still More Excellent Way Today I will be speaking on 1 Corinthians 13, verses 1-7. Before I begin with chapter 13, I will summarize chapter 12. Chapter 12 talks about spiritual gifts and their usefulness and importance. In the conclusion of the chapter, 1 Corinthians 12:31 says,” And I will show you a still more […]
More Than I can Handle
God will never give you more than you can handle. Growing up I believed this common “christian” phrase meant to reassure us that we can overcome the obstacles put in front of us. But that’s not true. We cannot overcome the obstacles in front of us, whatever they may be, on our own. Thankfully we […]
Things we can’t Understand
There are a lot of things we can’t understand. I mean, things very few people have ever fully understood. So here’s a few I’ve come up with: Infinity I will start out the concept of infinity because many of the others are not understandable due to this concept. As humans, we live in […]
Screwtape Letters
Screwtape Letters is a book by C.S. Lewis from the perspective of a highly placed demon to a novice tempter on how to properly tempt his “patient”. It is an absolutely phenomenal book and is among my favorites. In this post, I would like to highlight some of the principles that this book talks about. This […]
Any Other Way
Love hurts. Some people say it’s not love that hurts but what we as humans mistake for love that hurts. That is also true, but love still does hurt. Jesus didn’t go to the cross to be beaten, mocked, and murdered because it was the right thing to do, He went because He loves us. […]
The Art of Kindness
Today I am writing about kindness, but not because this is something I understand. I struggle with kindness, but God laid it on my heart to write about something I am not good at. As you may remember from some of my other blogs, my primary gift is prophecy, which is not the most compassionate […]
In the Center
A while ago I hiked through a creek with my brother and a friend. While I was clinging to roots hoping they wouldn’t break or walking on a log over the water hoping it wouldn’t roll, I worried about what might happen if one if us were to fall. I reminded myself that wherever I […]
Whispers and Shouts
In this generation, God seems so small, and we as a nation seem not to experience miracles as much as the past times that we read about. Or so we think. God has not ceased helping us, though there are indeed not as many noticeable “miracles” as there used to be in Biblical times. God still […]