This is the faith phase where you are starting to feel confident about the basics of your faith and you’re looking for some concrete & practical ways to grow beyond the basics. This can mean anything from overcoming doubt to finding your “tribe” or faith community (and everything in between). Let’s go there together!
And I gave them my Sabbath days of rest as a sign between them and me. It was to remind them that I, the LORD, had set them apart to be holy, making them my special people. Ezekiel 20:12 NLT ___ A couple weeks back I wrote a post that attempted to unpack...
"But look, I have made you as hard and stubborn as they are." Ezekiel 3:8 NLT ___ I have mentioned my stubbornness before in previous Messy Worship posts. More often than not, I tend to refer to it as one of my not-so-attractive qualities. Or, if I were in a job...
Whenever Jehudi finished reading three or four columns, the king took his knife and cut off that section of the scroll. He then threw it into the fire, section by section, until the whole scroll was burned up. Jeremiah 36:23 NLT ___ I don't know why, but every time...
"'For I know the plans I have for you,' says the Lord. 'They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.'" Jeremiah 29:11 NLT ___ There's a light at the end of the tunnel. It's a pretty popular phrase that's been around since the...
So now the LORD says, "Stop right where you are! Look for the old, godly way, and walk in it. Travel its path, and you will find rest for your souls. But you reply, 'No, that's not the road we want!' Jeremiah 6:16 NLT ___ Anyone remember the movie Stepmom with...
"But you are my witnesses, O Israel!" says the LORD. "And you are my servant. You have been chosen to know me, believe in me, and understand that I alone am God. There is no other God; there never has been and never will be." Isaiah 43:10 NLT ___ Dale Carnegie once...
How stupid can you be? He is the Potter, and he is certainly greater than you. You are only the jars he makes! Should the thing that was created say to the one who made it, "He didn't make us"? Does a jar ever say, "The potter who made me is stupid"? Isaiah 29:16...
"Why do you keep parading through my courts with your worthless sacrifices?" Isaiah 1:12 NLT ___ My family and I got to walk in an Independence Day parade this past weekend. It was fun - we each had a specific responsibility throughout the whole route. My job was...
The river runs into the sea but the sea is never full. Then the water returns again to the rivers and flows again to the sea. Ecclesiastes 1:7 NLT ___ Have you ever thought about what you would do if you were stranded on a deserted island? One of the things I'm not...
Bless the LORD, who is my rock. He gives me strength for war and skill for battle. Psalm 144:1 NLT ___ This week my husband and I read a story about a woman who had been in a car accident five weeks after her wedding day. The accident left her so badly injured that...
