Posts with the category “daily-faith-challenges”

The “How-to” of the Bible has been study, meditate, and now memorize. Memorization allows scripture to be formed in our heart and mind...  Read More

The second word of “How-to”, meditate. Meditate in the Hebrew is hagah most literally means murmur, which refers to the ancient practice of people reading scripture quietly under their breath...  Read More

Yesterday you read Joshua 1:1-9, what did you discover?...  Read More

Today I want to give you space to study a passage. We are going to use the same passage from Sunday, Joshua 1;1-9...  Read More

Last week we talked about the what and the why of the Bible. We said that the Bible is God’s story and his story was broken into four chapters or four acts of a play; creation, fall, redemption, and consummation...  Read More

Over the next few days, I’m going to invite you into different passages throughout the Bible that talk about what scripture is and why it is important...  Read More

Over the next few days, I’m going to invite you into different passages throughout the Bible that talk about what scripture is and why it is important...  Read More

Over the next few days, I’m going to invite you into different passages throughout the Bible that talk about what scripture is and why it is important...  Read More

What is the Bible? It’s God’s story. It’s not another story of humankind’s search for God; it is God’s story and his account of His search for us. The Bible is the word of God given to humans in history. Which means the Bible (God’s story) is our story, that we see throughout history to today and beyond...  Read More

We are kicking off a new series called Faith Essentials. Before we do a deep dive into that, think about it for a moment in broad strokes.  Read More

Gods people have been honoring God through fasting for thousands of years and yet for many of us we’re just now maybe hearing about the importance of it. For others you have been fasting and know all about it….  Read More

I can wake up in the morning and start the day out well, head to work, meet with people and everything is going really well and then all of a sudden out of nowhere I can have these messed up thoughts....  Read More

Yesterday we started the discussion around looking ahead, looking ahead into 2026, but more specifically, how do we look ahead, not based on our agenda, but what God is doing? What God is doing as Lord, Holy One, Creator, and King? (Isaiah 43:15)  Read More

Yesterday, Sam invited us to look back, to see all the ways God has been working, in the celebrations and blessings, as well as in the challenges and hard circumstances. Today and tomorrow, I want us to look ahead. But I want us to look ahead in a different way...  Read More

Thinking back on the year there are so many things that have happened, many that are positive, and many that are not so positive...  Read More

Finally, what are you waiting for? Who are you becoming while you wait? And we’ve already teased this out a bit, but what sustains you in the waiting?...  Read More

Back to our previous conversation, Jesus comes in our waiting. That waiting can be a gift when we become aware of what we ARE waiting for? Who are you BECOMING in the waiting? What SUSTAINS us in the waiting?...  Read More

Merry Christmas I encourage you, to take a moment and read the birth story. You can choose to read Matthew 1:18-25 and 2:1-12, you can choose to read Luke 1:26-56 and 2:1-20...  Read More

Yesterday I shared this statement. Waiting can be a gift. Waiting can help us slow down and become aware, what ARE we waiting for? Who are we becoming in the waiting? What sustains us in the waiting?...  Read More

Let’s step back into yesterday’s story, in the waiting, Joseph, Mary and Jesus arrive at the temple...  Read More

How many of “love” waiting? How many of you look at waiting and you are like, “waiting is so much fun”? It doesn’t matter what it is, big or small, long or short....  Read More

Friday, December 19thRead Zechariah 4:6-10- 6 So he (angel) said to me (Zechariah), “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty. 7 “What are you, mighty mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become level ground. Then he will bring out the capstone to shouts of ‘God bless it! God bless it!’” 8 Then the word of the Lord came to me...  Read More

Read Zechariah 4:6-10- 6 So he (angel) said to me (Zechariah), “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty. 7 “What are you, mighty mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become level ground...  Read More

Let’s look at another thread of small, unnoticeable things within Jesus’ genealogy...  Read More

Have you noticed within the Bible that God does big things in small ways? - Spit and dirt, to create mud which opened the eyes of the blind. Small things in a big way...  Read More

How many of you like small things? Little things? Barely noticeable things? ….. I get it, in some ways we do like or can appreciate small things....  Read More

Matthew was invited by Jesus with these words, “come follow me” not only was it an invitation of acceptance, but it was also an invitation to go and do the improbable. To go and do the things of Jesus. Jesus looked to all the disciples and essentially said, “I believe you can do what I do. Now go and do it.”...   Read More

Today I want to magnify our discussion from Matthew’s perspective. Because I think Matthew included these gritty, raw, powerful yet glorious stories because it aligned with HIS story...  Read More

Read Matthew 1:4-6a- 4 Ram the father of Amminadab, Amminadab the father of Nahshon, Nahshon the father of Salmon, 5 Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab, Boaz the father of Obed...  Read More

Back to the coming of Christmas through the eyes of Matthew....  Read More

Oh the coming of Christmas and all that it entails. From joyous traditions to gift giving, spending time with family to tending to the grief journey or being distracted by hurry, noise, and missed expectations...  Read More

To finish our week out I wanted to leave us with an incredible passage giving further instruction and preparing us with spoken expectations of having courage and taking courage...  Read More

In the Old testament God directed Joshua to meditate on his word day and night so that he will be sure to obey all that it says. God was saying this to him and preparing him as he was leading the Israelites into the promised land...  Read More

Matthew 14:22-32 22 Immediately after this, Jesus insisted that his disciples get back into the boat and cross to the other side of the lake, while he sent the people home...  Read More

Then the eleven disciples left for Galilee, going to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him - but some of them doubted18 Jesus came and told his disciples...  Read More

It seems like each day we are getting more inundated with technology as well as society/culture is luring us into doing more and more...  Read More

Curiosity leads the way to fully know and fully love others. Take a moment and read Luke 7. What do you see? What do you hear? Pay attention to curiosity and what holds people back from curiosity....  Read More

Yesterday we asked these questions- How can you be curious to see opportunities? God, what could you do with this? God, what could you do in my day?...  Read More

Next step in curiosity. Curiosity opens our eyes, mind and heart to others and opportunities. I know this is a longer passage. But take a moment read it, what do you see? What do you hear? Pay attention to curiosity and what holds people back from curiosity....  Read More

I shared a quote from Brene Brown yesterday. The opposite of curious is disengaged.” If you don’t want to be disengaged from life, then let’s learn, as disciples, what it means to be curious....  Read More