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If I were to get a tattoo, I would choose one of God’s promises – something that I wanted to always keep in the forefront of my mind.  However, it would be challenging to choose which of his promises is most significant to me, because at different times, that seems to change.  His promises are 'life lines' when the way is rough, sure reasons for hope when I might be…

I hope you are awake, and will read and consider carefully the import of all you are about to read today.

Jesus replied, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry again. Whoever believes in me will…

Can I be honest here?  Their response made me roll my eyes.  I thought to myself, ‘Are you kidding me?  You want him to prove it to you again—do another miracle, and then you’ll believe in him?’  After all, they had heard about his healings, they had heard about how he saved the wedding couple from disaster by supplying wine when theirs…

Prayer requests come in regularly to my ministry website,  but this one really got my attention:  “Please pray that I have the strength to keep going in my position in my company.  So much is demanded of me, and has been for so long, that I am under immense pressure.  I find I have little balance between work and any kind of…

The faces change.  The scenarios change . . . the reason does not.  ‘I just really want him to love me,’ the high school girl explains to me, the day after she has given far too much of herself away to a demanding young man.  She wants love, and is willing to give sex for it.  He wants sex, and is willing to promise love for…

Jesus: The Bread of Life   John 6.22-59

Father, as we read through the rest of this passage following Jesus’ feeding of the 5000, his walking on the water to the disciples … please help us to grasp what you were saying to the crowd then, and what it means to us…

~One more lesson from the Feeding of the Five Thousand, John 6.1-13

“After this, Jesus crossed the Sea of Galilee…”  To what did the ‘after this’ refer?  In syncing events of Jesus’ ministry, our Lord was not just physically weary from teaching and…

The stage is set for one of history’s real-live dramas, and you have just gotten the word there is to be an open casting call.  This is the break you have been waiting for—a chance to make your mark, a chance for your name to go in the history books, the opportunity of a lifetime!  In perhaps the best known of all of Jesus’ miracles, the Feeding of the Five-Thousand, you…

Today I spoke on the topic of friendship at a one-day retreat, and it prompted me to think of the friendship we are invited to share with God.  It also got me thinking about prayer, the way we communicate with our God.

Friendship with anyone requires a couple…

“You know, Christine, I have heard people comment that there is an awful lot of talk about Jesus in the church today, and not so much teaching about God the Father.  Could you comment on that?” my dear friend Christa asked, catching me off guard at Bible study last week.  …

Faith made sight.  John 4:46-53                                                              

This appears to be a matter-of-fact recounting of ho-hum storytelling, but…

What do YOU notice about this exchange? John 4.1-42

When Jesus knew that the Pharisees heard He was making and baptizing more disciples than John (though Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were), He left Judea and went again to Galilee. He…

Humility is a beautiful thing when we see it . . . especially when it would be the natural thing to react defensively.  Here again we see that John the Baptist never lost sight of his mission – he was here to point the way to Jesus, to make him great.  It was his purpose for being, all along the way, even when…