“Do you ever feel like God is saying, ‘Did you see that?”‘ — Lee Prayer. I don’t completely understand it. But last year, God powerfully answered a prayer that I forgot I’d even prayed. In late September, our church joined up with another large church in the area, and together,…
I recently had a mental freak out moment during the sermon. I read ahead a bit in the manuscript so I could take a break from listening in order to dump what was in my busy brain, freeing me up to focus on the rest of the message. Here’s just…
A cold, narrow wire. My bare toes, trying to grip it, arms stretched out, wobbling, balancing, whoa! Easy, there! Don’t fall! A tight rope that hovers over the pit of sin. A selfish thought, a rebuke spoken harshly, thoughts of despair – they all send me toppling. I fall to…
I had a moment of weakness and we adopted a puppy. He looked at me with his big, dark eyes and said, “Becky, you need me.” And though I could lament the shredded toilet paper rolls, mangled book corners, and digested pencils, I won’t. At least not in this post.…
The Phone Call It was the phone call you never want to get. “Your husband’s been in a motorcycle accident. Can you come to the hospital?” Not knowing whether he’d skinned his knee or lost his legs, I gathered my sweatshirt and purse over my arm and told the kids…
(The following post was published here on the College Park Church Blog for REACH month.) “Dear God, I pray that the Smiths* would not be eaten by big, gigantic worms!” This is the daily prayer of my four year old little warrior. He usually follows it up with the swooshing…
Ezekial 14:14 “Even though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in its midst, by their own righteousness they could only deliver themselves,” declares the Lord God. While reading through God’s judgment in Ezekiel, I came across chapter 14, where God calls out three men, maybe the “top three”…