Barnabas We find details about Barnabas’ background spread throughout the book of Acts and Paul’s epistles. Luke tells us that Barnabas was a Levite whose family came from the island of Cyprus where some of the Jews of the Diaspora had settled. He was a cousin of Mark, the writer of the gospel by that…
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help
it’s a shared prayer. i prayed it this morning, posted in on FB, 4 ppl “liked it” and i just got off the phone with someone else who needed the same. help. _____________ dear Jesus, pls help us. and when You do, pls assure us that it’s You so that there’s zero doubt that You’re…
we’ve protected them from Jesus
suppose someone were to compare Jesus to a Snuggy. not cool, huh? well, unfortunately that’s how we’ve portrayed him. more on that later…
morning glory
it’s not yet 9am i’m wide awake thankful happy glad to know that stretched before me many hours to complicate it’s not yet 9am i’m satisfied trusting hopeful glad to know that God has blessed me peace to share with those who cry
stank face
sorry folks. when i don’t like something, it shows. and it ain’t cute. i’m one of those people who look best when smiling and i’m not a natural smiler. but boy oh boy can i give you a stank face. so this morning, when boarding my early morning flight, a flight attendant said in a…
is this communion?
at the invitation of a friend, i had communion (outside of my denomination for the first time) this week. it was new. no foot washing. just bread and wine. i read the prayers. i ate. didn’t dip (coz i don’t do alcohol). i never like taking communion without first knowing about it ahead of time….
having to think
There once was a time when I just did ministry. Just did it. No deep queries into minds and patterns. No reading up on the experts’ opinions. Just action. Pure action. So what changed? Those I serve are no longer peers in terms of expectation and experience. Expectations will kick you, kick you hard, all…