Posts with the category “daily-faith-challenges”

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

Did you know that children ask, on average, 125 questions a day? And if you have a toddler between the ages of 3-4 that may be even more than that. Right, think about it. Why? Why? How? How? What is? What does? ...  Read More

Christ-centered conflict is an invitation to grow in character, peace and unity. Conflict creates natural division, separation, divide. To see the division, you need to see what’s going on underneath, to see the cracks, the divide, the separation. It’s what’s underneath the issue that matters...  Read More

We are working on the premise that Christ-centered conflict is an invitation to grow in character, peace, and unity for ourselves and others. Today’s conversation is about growing in peace....  Read More

Remember the Proverbs that we slammed through. What was the issue with many of those Proverbs, character; angry, hot-tempered, perverse, evil, greedy, you may not see yourself in those ways when it comes to conflict...  Read More

I loved this story I came across. There was a couple who had been married for 60 years. Throughout their life they had shared everything. They loved each other deeply. They had not kept any secrets from one another, except for a small shoebox that the wife kept in the top shelf of her closet...  Read More

Yes, we are still in our series, Relationship Remix, we spoke on trust, then forgiveness, now we are going to do a 3-week mini-series. The 3 C’s that sabotage our relationships. The first “C” is unhealthy conflict. And the oxymoron that I want you to sit in today and invite you to see a new definition is healthy conflict...   Read More

We started the conversation yesterday about a costly choice. We have a choice to either stay imprisoned by unforgiveness, which comes with the inmates of bitterness, rage, pride, slander, malice, vengeance. Or we choose the costly choice of forgiveness, which leads to freedom, because it is the way of Jesus...  Read More

Yesterday I shared that we miss forgiveness when we take our eyes off the cross. We miss forgiveness when we take our eyes off of what the King of Kings has done for us...  Read More

Yesterday we introduced the power of the cross and what Christ did on the cross. Which means we have vertical forgiveness from God and offer horizontal forgiveness of others. Notice what the prophet Micah said...  Read More

Having a discussion on forgiveness, in this setting, means I have no idea the degree of hurt or pain that has been done to you or that you have done. I have no idea, what your story is and how it has impacted you...  Read More

This week we are going to look at forgiveness, but my challenge on Sunday and throughout this week is challenge your view of forgiveness. Ultimately because forgiveness can feel like a mystery at times, but forgiveness can also be really confusing...  Read More

Take a look at what Paul says to the church in Corinth, but specifically in the Message version...  Read More

The first two steps of rebuilding trust with a difficult person is first mirroring their actions, then it is inviting challenge or discipline. Which finally brings us to our last step enforcing boundaries...  Read More

Yesterday we introduced the first step in dealing with a fool, either in you or in your relationship. You hold up the mirror to their actions, the next step is invite challenge. Be patient and hear me on this. Because a fool hates correction, hates wisdom, hates discipline and loves their own way. They will only stay in their own way. To rebuild trust with a fool, you need to mirror and invite them into challenge, or discipline or growth. Another opportunity to give them a choice, stay a fool or change.  Read More

Yesterday we took some time to look at what King Solomon had to say about fools in the book of Proverbs. Remember, we only looked at 10% of the verses that he referenced fools in. What was the definition of a fool that you came up with?  Read More