Abusers like Ahab & Jezebel use one another
They’re eerily alike: Ahab and Jezebel, who ruled in Elijah’s day. Men and women in church leadership who use one another in order to control everyone else.
God who teaches us his ways
Always, God answers the heartcry, “Teach me your ways, so I may know you!” Sometimes, he uses the “God who …” phrases in his Word as he guides us to himself.
The blessing of an undivided heart
Once my heart was undivided, God gave me grace to overcome. Each new year, may we walk in the two blessings that characterized Esther’s and Elijah’s lives!
Psalm 23 – Rest is a many-splendored thing
How “many-splendored” rest can be! Especially the rest the Good Shepherd gives. As our lives sing yes to his rest, he lifts our spirit, lightens our load.
Obsession with power, in the church
You begin to see something distressing in the church. Can it, might it, be an obsession with power, eerily like the Baal worship of old? Whatever do you do?
Tabor: This is the day you overcome
At Mount Tabor, God told Deborah and Barak, “This is the day I will give you victory over your oppressors.” The same Lord gives us strength to overcome, too!
Prayer of the Body, for the Body, of Christ
Would you pray with me “that, as the Bride of Christ, we will continue to learn to ‘walk in beauty’ with our fellow man and God." - Mark Charles
Toxic church – and a promise of real belonging
Long ago and still today, God promises his traumatized, grieving, scattered people: I will be a sanctuary to you. I will protect you. I will gather you back.
Masters of misdirection and mesmerizing fog
People like King Ahab spend their lives using and abusing others, to get what they want. They also mesmerize and misdirect us, so we won’t see them as they are.
Feast of Joy, in times when life is hard
In a distressing time in my life, God gave me an oasis of joy. At Sukkot, he invited me into the joy that is at once bedrock and a bubbling, underground spring.
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