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Preparing a Place
John 14: 1-4 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, […]
A Family Makes A Home
“While Jesus was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to him. Someone told him, “Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you.” He replied to him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” Pointing to his disciples, he said, “Here are […]
Home, Our Dwelling Place
Solid Rock or Sinking Sand
MATTHEW 7:24-27 24“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. 25The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock. […]
Sharing Home
Acts 4:32 “All the believers were of one heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had.” When Bri and I moved to Northern Michigan from Kentucky in 2013, we were uprooting our lives to move to a state we knew four things about. […]
Longing to be Home
May Spiritual Care Theme Exodus 16:1-2 “The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt. In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron.” In the book of Exodus, the people of […]
The Journey to Home
Genesis 12:1: Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.” We are all on a journey to Home, our eternal Home. Our journey Home begins with God’s covenant promises to Abraham. God chose Abram (later he was named […]
Home: A Meditation
“The eternal God is my home and underneath are the everlasting arms.” Deuteronomy 33: 27 (Message/NIV) This is one of the most formative verses about home in my life; I recite it almost daily. Yet, as I try to express the importance of this visual, it feels impossibly big. The arms of God throughout the […]
Introduction to 2019 Theme: Home
In my office, I have a picture of a farm in the Northwest corner of Iowa. There is nothing really particularly special about this farm. There is a pen for pigs, a pasture for cows, rows and rows of corn, and a two-story farmhouse needing a new roof. For anyone other than my family, this […]
Blessing in Persecution
Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you. -Matthew 5:11