Nevertheless: The Call to Wake Up, Wise Up, and Rise Up
Our world is in uproar. Fear rages on. Misrepresentations of good, acceptable living abound. It’s easier to conform to the standard-setters around us than to the Bible.
Where’s Your Line?
A Response to “Don’t Call it Persecution” posted by EBC Nipawin’s Pastor Chris Hutchison February 20, 2021 (found here) I’ll admit it: when I read Chris Hutchison’s article, I felt sick to my stomach. Have I been looking at this…
No Greater Love
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. John 15:13 What’s all the hype about, really? We celebrate Valentine’s Day with chocolate and various gifts, believing that we are showing those we love…
The Call: Take Up Your Cross
Like pieces of a puzzle coming together, I was struck by the vision of what it really looks like to take up our cross as Jesus commands. We like to think of this concept as burdens we carry, or at…
Turning Our Eyes
Look away! The world is breaking, crying out for relief from the pain. Our motivation is to watch and break along with it. But we are in the world not of it. Look away! Turn your eyes! Our help comes…
A Reflection on the Steadfast Love of the Lord
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!
Lord, I Am Coming…
“My heart has heard you say, ‘Come and talk with me.’ And my heart responds, ‘Lord, I am coming.'” – Psalm 27:8 NLT Weary and despairing, we are quick to utter a cry out to the God of our salvation.…
Burdens
How quickly our hearts get led astray on a tangent of unrest. How tumultuous are our emotions, rocking us as wind to waves on the sea and threatening to capsize our hearts beyond repair. Be settled, Dear Friends, in the…
Humility to Hear…
Reflecting on the not-so cozy side of bed time prayers…you know, the ones that start out with processing some “messier” aspects of a day… It’s actually a deeply satisfying experience to lay it all out before the Lord and let…
What Are We Doing With His Name?
…make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will…
