January 27, 2022
Come Alongside
Come alongside. This is really the crux of it all. Just walk alongside people and enter into their lives. Listen. Talk. Laugh. Cry.
Read more..Thoughts By John Fischer
December 20, 2021
God with Us
This is Christmas. This is Emmanuel: God with us. This is the advent - the coming of the Lord. God invading history. The one who invented it coming into it and submitting himself to all his own rules.
Read more..August 16, 2021
Don’t Let Your Past Control Your Future
Release your hold on your life and throw the door open on the dynamic of God's will for your future.
Read more..August 4, 2021
The Dark and Lonely Closet of Regret
Regret is like a hot potato. Hold onto it for any period of time and it will burn you.
Read more..July 25, 2021
Growing Pains
The spiritual principle of growth - We obey by stepping into our weakness or our fear, trusting in the fact that because it is something He asks of us, He will meet us somewhere along the way with the power to do it.
Read more..July 18, 2021
Because of You
Thought for the day: Don't ever sell short what God can do "because of you."
Read more..June 3, 2021
Justice and Mercy
Is there anybody you'd rather not see in heaven? What if God chooses to extend mercy to that person? Would you go away and pout like Jonah?
Read more..November 16, 2020
Jonah Just Doesn’t Get it
Jonah was so caught up in his own self-righteousness that, in the end, all he could care about was himself and a stupid plant. Meanwhile, God was having compassion for a hundred and twenty thousand people who were trapped in their own ignorance, along with many animals, which God cared about, too.
Read more..October 28, 2020
Free to Serve
In Christ we have been set free from the power and the penalty of sin, free from trying to earn God's favor, free from the insatiable need to please ourselves, and free to know the truth.
Read more..November 18, 2019
Cracked Pots
The more honest we are with our humanity, the more the power of God can be seen and recognized in us. our fragile, clay-like (from the earth) bodies and the immeasurable brightness of Christ is something that should be obvious so that everyone will know the power must be coming from God, because it certainly isn't coming from us.
Read more..