Harvest in the Hard Times 1For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven. 2A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant and a time to harvest. (Ecclesiastes 3:1-2) Greetings Family. I last posted on here October 12. I wrote about my lamentations over the … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion
A Season of Lament 4“Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.” (Matthew 5:4) Greetings family. This morning, after serving in the nine o’clock service, I was standing in the middle of Compassion Christian‘s busy common area. The building was bustling with people. I had just picked up our 8-year-old from upstairs, families … More Common Sense REBORN Daily Devotion
Work To Do 6We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; 7if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach. 8If it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion
Send The Fire 14“To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation. 15I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot, I wish you were either one or the other! 16So, because you are lukewarm-neither hot … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion
Sheep and Goats 41“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43I was a stranger … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion
Manufactured Chaos 33“‘When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. 34The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’” (Leviticus 19:33-34) While I could continue diving into the manufactured chaos in the … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion
Good, Good Father 8Yet You, LORD, are our Father. We are the clay, You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand. (Isaiah 64:8) Yesterday we celebrated Father’s Day. I was lucky to have the entire day off and spent nearly all of it with my wonderful family. We attended church, where … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion
Masterpiece, Part 3 10For we are God’s masterpiece, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. (Ephesians 2:10) Today, sadly, we wrapped up Compassion Christian’s Kid’s Camp. We had one more day running eight groups through Laser Tag, then tear down and clean up. The kiddos’ … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion
Masterpiece, Part 2 35In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the LORD Jesus Himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.” (Acts 20:35) We just wrapped up Day 4 of Kid’s Camp at Compassion Christian Church in … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion
Masterpiece Part 1 11I have told you this so that My joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. (John 15:11) We have just wrapped up Day 3 of our home church, Compassion Christian‘s, annual Kid’s Camp. This is their version of “Vacation Bible School” (as it was called when I … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion
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