Christian Life

Just Jesus

It wasn’t your typical church building. It was a shack planted in a dusty corner on the wrong side of a Texas town. The façade of multi-colored tin and the bars hanging on the windows […]

Christian Life

Crossing Over

There they stood, looking across a mighty, swollen, and flooded Jordan River. Beyond those swells lay the land of milk and honey, the inheritance they had been promised. It had been forty years since the […]

Christian Life

Grief

When we hear the word grief in reference to the bible, we will more than likely think of Job. How easy it is to skim through the 42 chapters devoted to telling his story, without […]

Devotional

Harnessed

The sun shone brightly as children giggled and chased one another through the caravans. Even the elders seemed to have a spring in their step as they finally left Egypt behind. They had left with […]

Devotional

Cassia

“And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross” Philippians 2:8 (KJV). In 2016, I did a study on the ingredients that […]

Christian Life

Cleft for Me

When I was a child and forced to trek endless miles through Walmart with my mother, I would occasionally slip over to the pharmacy for some light entertainment. Tucked away in the corner was a […]

Christian Life

The Wheel of God

“The Lord gave another message to Jeremiah. He said, ‘Go down to the potter’s shop, and I will speak to you there.’ So I did as he told me and found the potter working at […]

Christian Life

The Shadow

“Hi, Shadow…” I felt my hand quiver apprehensively as I attempted to unclench my tightly-balled fist. I managed to loosen a few, stiff fingers enough to wriggle them shakily at the ominous figure in front of me. It […]