tag / Surrender
Forging new things is about surrendering in our everyday moments, pressing into the more of Gods goodness and grace. Becoming healed and whole is a journey, but the refining process is worth it.
Ever feel blocked? Yeah, me too. One of the best cures for a blocked soul starts with a clean sweep. Last week, on the blog, we talked about the way of simplicity and how it leads to freedom (click here to read it now). This week we’re going to do a deeper...
(I’ve included some links and recommendations for some books within this post, but they are not affiliate links. I do not receive compensation if you click.) Today we’re talking about how to worship no matter what even when we can’t do it together. When I sat down to plan my...
Is fear affecting your faith? I ask because it’s been a tough week for human beings—period. Coronavirus has completely taken over and yet it hasn’t cornered the field on bad news, has it? There are still plenty of other hard things happening right now. This is #2...
Over the next five weeks of Lent, I’m going to dive into some of the scriptures of Jesus’ life and ministry specifically reflecting on His relationship to the Father. This week’s focus is all about the lessons of solitude in the wilderness. Now, I know, Ash Wednesday was almost...
God’s peace plan leads us, the most unexpected way. The way of the world is to mandate peace from the top down, but real peace is only found in Jesus. In this last leg of the journey, we’re going to continue looking at the message of prophets,...
We are right in the middle of Lent, which is a 40-day period of time always preceding Holy Week. This Liturgical practice focuses on surrender, just like Jesus modeled, in the desert before he began his earthly ministry. In light of the season, it seemed only appropriate to make this...
This month’s theme on the blog is all about simplicity. The events of the last three months took my life in a completely different direction, not in a bad way, but definitely not what I had planned. I’ve been thinking a lot about how the elegance of simplicity calls...
Today’s post is a collection of some of the lessons learned in the dark seasons of hard. You always see things with more clarity after the fact, right? As the saying goes, “Hindsight is 20/20.” We live in a broken world, where broken meets broken. It’s unavoidable. ...
Worship belongs to God alone; that’s always been the way. In the most basic definition I would say that the way of worship is how we acknowledge that God is God. It’s how we love him, which is why praise, celebration, thanksgiving and prayer are all part of...
