Tag: Holy Spirit
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O You Of Little Faith
Is a small faith okay or isn’t it? I’ve written in the past about how God can take faith as small as a mustard seed and make it grow (Matthew 17:20). We don’t have to be super strong before God will use us. On the other hand, four times in the book of Matthew, Jesus…
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Lighting The Fire
Sometimes we speak of our spiritual lives as a fire. We ask God to “light the fire in my heart again.” But building a campfire is not always easy, and it can also be difficult to light the fires of Christian zeal.
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Staying Positive in a Negative World
The only place to be positive is a negative world. In heaven there will be no need for optimism. It’s only in a world with problems that “being positive” can really mean anything.
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Pentecost Harvest
Did you know that Pentecost was a harvest celebration? Pentecost is the Greek word (meaning fiftieth day) used in the New Testament to refer to the Jewish Feast of Harvest, which is a celebration of the early wheat harvest every spring. (Exodus 23:16, 34:22).
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Honeymoon
Even good marriages have conflicts and low points, and in our individual journeys of faith, we may have times that we find our spiritual enthusiasm waning. But sometimes it is the very tribulation, the problems, the conflicts, the difficult things that lead us back to hope. Why? How?
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One More Story
If you read last week’s blog, you now know my simple conversion story. But after I wrote that story, God kept reminding me that I have another story to tell. Yet I hesitate.

