Looking Up to the Good Shepherd

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Looking Up to the Good Shepherd

Digging Deeper Questions

June 18, 2024

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Have you ever felt like the lamb who couldn’t quite lift up your eyes to see the Good Shepherd? Jenna, from Blessed is She did ... and then she looked up. May her post – and looking up – do for you what it did for her. May you be blessed as the sheep of His pasture today...

Why Faith and Worry Can't Coexist

July 30, 2024

“Faith and fear cannot coexist.” If I heard that reminder from my spiritual mentor, Helen Patterson, once I heard it a thousand times over the course of the 20+ years that she gently, consistently, and faithfully shepherded me. One of us with a conservative spiritual background, the other with more Pentecostal leanings. One of us young, the other with a full head of white hair. One of us neat and tidy, the other a bit scattered (but never showing it!)...

Called: Part 2

July 16, 2024

We recently paused to reflect on I Corinthians 1:9 – “God is faithful; you were called by him into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.” There is no question that our primary and most essential calling as Christians is into a full, no barriers relationship with our God. Yet there seems to be more....

Called: Part 1

June 25, 2024

It was 6:15 AM, and as I walked the streets near my home, passing purple-blue hydrangeas and lavender buzzing with bumblebees, I was thinking about calling. Calling was on my mind for more than one reason. The Presence Point tag line, Live Into Your Calling, was one of course. A note I jotted into my journal a few weeks before was another. At the time, I was cataloguing some concepts I wanted to understand better. “What is a true, biblical understanding of calling?”