• Faith - Miracles - Peace - Walking on water

    Courting Miracles: Instructions for Walking on Water

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    The problem with miracles, I have found, is that they are easy to forget.  Already I hear dissent.  Unbelievers like to claim that if they were to truly witness a miracle, then and only then would they lay down their unbelief.  But in my experience, miracles don’t even make believers believe.  Consider the Hebrews.  The Red Sea parted for them, and they were led by a pillar of fire by night and a cloud by day.  Bread rained down on them. Tangible corporate miracles and yet, no heart change was evident, and only two of the original generation set foot…

  • fish
    Fishers of Men - Self-awareness - strongholds

    The Fish in Your Dark Subconscious Sea

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    Large bodies of water are heavy with mystery. Under the surface live strange creatures, both comic and terrifying.  Movies show monsters, though more common are the schools of shimmering fish that fill dinner plates.  But the sea is often a metaphor for our own minds, our will, and emotions battling under the surface of our societal mask. So when Jesus tells His disciples to cast their nets on the right side of their boat, He is speaking a metaphor into their lives. Often we default to the line about Jesus making his disciples fishers of men, but this is not…

  • Heart
    Heart - Holy of Holies - Holy Place

    The Road to Jerusalem is in Your Heart

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    Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.  Psalm 84:5 The heart is often under attack in the church.  It seems that one verse in Jeremiah stands for the whole of scripture’s stand on the heart.  “Your heart is deceptive and desperately wicked,” preachers tell me, but then I am told to guard my heart, for out of it comes the wellsprings of life, according to Proverbs.  Seems contradictory. The New Testament is kinder to the heart, telling me to love others from the heart, to love God with a pure heart,…