We started the New Year with a desire to go into 2019 with a more defined purpose for our lives and a focus in God. This should move us to improve our lives and to help improve the lives of others. We started by reflecting on the past year to see what we were successful…

We often begin our walk of faith by working and serving in areas where we can see both where we are and where we are going. If we step away from this spiritually for a moment we can see where the safety and predictability of these actions will accomplish many things that while useful they…

God’s Grace is the movement of God for our salvation through Jesus Christ and the next move is ours.  Faith is our belief in God’s work and while Faith cannot be seen it is the fuel by which we accomplish the purpose God has called each of us to in His service. Faith moves our…

EPHESIANS 2 New Living Translation ( NLT ) 8 God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. 9 Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. 10 For we are God’s masterpiece. He has…

LUKE 10: 38-42 Jesus Visits Martha and Mary 38 As Jesus and the disciples continued on their way to Jerusalem, they came to a certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. 39 Her sister, Mary, sat at the Lord’s feet, listening to what he taught. 40 But Martha was distracted by the big dinner she…

The reflections of the past year become our starting point for a New Year with our focus and eyes on God. The new clean page of the year in front of us is both exciting and humbling that while there is much to do we cannot do it all alone. This is a good time…

It is always refreshing to start something new. To be able to begin with a clear heart and spirit on a new white sheet of paper with unlimited possibilities. Our biggest challenge is to actually start with the freedom that we have in front of us without letting the past color too much of our new…

Lamentations 3: 22-24 NLT 22 The faithful love of the Lord never ends![a    His mercies never cease.23 Great is his faithfulness;    his mercies begin afresh each morning.24 I say to myself, “The Lord is my inheritance;    therefore, I will hope in him!”  

Luke 22:61 New Living Translation (NLT) 61 At that moment the Lord turned and looked at Peter. Suddenly, the Lord’s words flashed through Peter’s mind: “Before the rooster crows tomorrow morning, you will deny three times that you even know me.” The end of another year provides an opportunity for us to look back over our past year…

As Advent closes with the fulfillment of Jesus birth we are reminded that the expectation of Advent begins our journey to the cross and ultimately to the resurrection of Jesus on Easter. If we pause here at the end of the year to reflect on this past year of our lives and also on the…