As the associate pastor at my church, one of my responsibilities is to provide the pastoral prayer every Sunday. I thought, “I love talking to God. This will be easy, maybe even fun.” Oh, I was so naive, so unaware, so out of touch with the rhythm of my own prayer life. But, I was […]
Before I get up Before I get started Before I get moving Give me Jesus Before I get dressed Before I get breakfast going Before I get in a hurry Give me Jesus Before I get ahead of myself Before I get in the way Before I get, give me Jesus. Give me Jesus. Amen.
I am at a visioning retreat for my church and so the focus should be my church, right? Wrong. It turns out that my scheduled little talk with Jesus that was apart of today’s program has turned my life upside down or perhaps, right side up. I just don’t want to talk about my calling […]
“So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who […]
God of all bravery, of all triumphs and victories, of every success and accomplishment, God of guts and grit, of heroism and fearlessness, Give us the courage to trust in You, the unseen and yet visible, hidden in plain sight within us. Give us the audacity to believe that we need not search any longer, […]