Matthew 27:46 New International Version 46 About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”). Jeremiah steadfastly recognized that the Lord had not abandoned his...

Jeremiah 4:3-4 New International Version 3 This is what the Lord says to the people of Judah and to Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground     and do not sow among thorns. 4 Circumcise yourselves to the Lord,     circumcise your hearts,     you people of Judah and...

Appearances can be deceiving. Many of us have spent a lifetime creating the mask that we wear out in public. We want people to respond to us in a certain way based on the mask we wear. For example, if we project a loving mother to the world, we hope to be treated...

Psalm 139:13-16 13 For you created my inmost being;     you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;     your works are wonderful,     I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you     when I was...

Mark 8:35 - For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. Living in this broken world, people know defeat all too well. Everyone has experienced a relationship where someone let them down, or a...

Exodus 10:1 - Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness spreads over Egypt—darkness that can be felt.” Chances are you’ve made your share of nighttime kitchen raids. You know you won’t sleep again until you answer the call of...

What does it mean to have a “spiritual awakening”? For some, the change is that God is not some distant figure on a mountain or another planet but a presence with, within and among us wherever we are, guiding, leading, encouraging and confronting us to move on toward...