She wakes, stumbles downstairs, nothing in hand, clinging to the mug she sips coffee from. And He waits… Kids clamor awake. She pulls herself up from her slumbering state, feeding them, gets them ready for their day. And He waits…. Bus comes. Finally the house is silent. The demands of little hands aren’t there pulling at […]
Oh God, we come to you today as needy! We come in weakness, confessing we have no strength. We are like pilgrimagers, sojourners, plowing away through this toil in hopes to find you. And why is it easier to look for you in places and other people…than to close our eyes, be still, and absorb your […]
It all starts in the Secret Place. I worship. Come to Him with weeping. My heavy yoke burdening me. It’s time its His. Again. I enter the tent of Asian. The Holy Place where His glory lives…a place where mere words are far from sufficient. It falls away like scales. These weights, all burdens slowing my […]
Sky darkens, earth shakes, lives seem to suffocate under mud, searching desperately for oxygen. While others seem to have an I.V. An answer. A solution for everything. A way to cope and control their future and their own destiny… But what if God just wants us to pray? Some claim education is the only hope of […]
“There is a King in every crowd”, Russell Wilson’s Dad used to tell him. For the Seattle Seahawks, we here in the Northwest like to think that KingRussell’s Dad is referring to, is us. We pride ourselves on blue and green. We throw parties and chant in a deep voice, fist pounding in the air, “Go […]
What would you ask a pastor in inland China? Well, we had the chance. Three plane flights in. Taxi ride winding around. Obstacles of people. Crunched in seat. Feeling every windy, sharp turn. Smelling fumes rising…..like the breakfast in my stomach…..from that morning. Wondering…Are we ever going to get to that church? The one we felt […]