I’ve considered writing a book by this blog’s title: The Art of Loving God. It sounds rather mystical and religious. I don’t think I’ve grown too worldly, however I know I’m more down to earth than I’ve ever been. Maybe it’s our culture. We western Christians, especially in America, are practical, dress comfortable, and speak directly…
Read moreWhat Delights God the Most?
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I am writing COME AND SEE and decided this last chapter might make a good blog. My last blog is like this one; I am still thinking about how much David and Peter’s heart affected God. This chapter, while following the chronology of events in the Bible, mirrors the same theme. Hope you enjoy. If…
Read moreIt’s Something Only God Sees
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“I had always felt life first as a story—and if there is a story there is a storyteller.” G.K. Chesterton. We are characters living out subplots, our life-stories, within God’s Story. I began this morning considering Simon Peter and King David. Their stories are alike. David lived before Christ’s time, Peter lived during and after…
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Once Upon A Time – The Fullness of Love was Born
At first sight, Miriam shares her joy . . . I loved Yeshua so much I cried. He was mine. He came from God, and he was mine. I studied his fingernails, each one so tiny and delicate. I marveled at his eyelashes, so beautiful against his face. His nose, his chin, everything about him…
Read moreFools for God
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Sometimes my beliefs seem crazy. What Christians believe have the surface appearance of really farfetched tales of fiction. I sense this sometimes when speaking to one of my grandchildren about heaven and hell, creation, angels and demons, and more. Stranger than that are the people of biblical record. One man built an ark before the…
Read moreSurprise! Unwrapping God’s Presence
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God came to us as a stranger. Nobody expected to see the Messiah come in the way He came. God fulfilled the prophecies about Himself but not in ways anyone could grasp. Really, not even those closest to Jesus understood who He really was, not until after the resurrection. Even then the realization came slowly….
Read moreTHE GARDENS OF THE LORD
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CHAPTER ONE: A GARDEN CALLED EDEN When God created the heavens and the earth, He made an especially beautiful, delightful place. He put a lot of thought into its design, its function, its beauty. He planned and dreamed about it with an expectant, loving heart. It turned out to be a paradise. It wasn’t…
Read moreShining
Philippians 2:15: “… so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without blemish though you live in a crooked and perverse society, in which you shine as lights in the world . . .”
Read moreA Man After God’s Own Heart — Brennan Manning’s Passing
A week ago I searched online to see if Brennan Manning had written a new book. I discovered he had died last month (April 12, 2013). I immediately felt the loss and discovered I had really loved him. His words had so often come to me from God’s own heart. I sat under the spell of his teaching an entire…
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Spring and New Beginnings
During a walk through my lovely community, I thought about how extraordinary it is that Easter falls on the cusp of spring, announcing it as a time of hope bursting with new beginnings. Jesus had a plan from the start, didn’t He? Our Jewish savior used Passover to put in place a picture-story that would be more…
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