Watch for New Things

I'm doing a new thing - can you see it springing up? Even now it's beginning, though you might not recognize it yet. I make ways in the wilderness, streams in the wasteland. Stop staring at what was and watch for what I'm doing right now. New growth is already starting. – Isaiah 43:19

Thursday Read: The Upper Room - Where Fear Becomes Mission

After Jesus ascended to heaven, the disciples returned to Jerusalem and gathered in an upper room. Acts 1:13-14 lists them by name - Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James. The eleven remaining apost

Faith Is Substance

Faith is confidence in what you hope for and assurance about what you don't see. Not wishful thinking but substance. Not blind optimism but firm conviction. You don't need to see to believe - you believe and then you'll see. Trust what I've promised, even when you can't trace how I'll acco

Wednesday Prayer: Rendering to Caesar and to God

Jesus, the Pharisees tried to trap you with a tax question and you answered with perfect wisdom: render to Caesar what is Caesar's, to God what is God's. You acknowledged earthly authority's legitimate claims while establishing God's ultimate claims. Help me live in that tension. I confes

Wednesday Read: Tax Day and Rendering to Caesar

April 15 is Tax Day in the United States - the annual deadline for filing federal income tax returns. Americans collectively pay over $2 trillion in federal taxes annually, making this deadline a source of anxiety, frustration, and resentment for millions. Nobody enjoys calculating what th

I'm doing a new thing - can you see it springing up? Even now it's beginning, though you might not recognize it yet. I make ways in the wilderness, streams in the wasteland. Stop staring at what was and watch for what I'm doing right now. New growth is already starting. – Isaiah 43:19

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Thursday Read: The Upper Room - Where Fear Becomes Mission

Faith Is Substance

Wednesday Prayer: Rendering to Caesar and to God

Wednesday Read: Tax Day and Rendering to Caesar