God’s readiness to give and forgive is now public. Salvation’s available for everyone! We’re being shown how to turn our backs on a godless, indulgent life, and how to take on a God-filled, God-honoring life. This new life is starting right now. Titus 2:11-12 (MSG)   I don’t often find myself in Titus.   I…

Teach us to realize the brevity of life, so that we may grow in wisdom. Psalm 90:12 (NLT)   Sometimes God speaks directly to me.   This Psalm was the Verse of the Day from Bible Gateway on the day of my step-mother’s funeral. Bible Gateway didn’t know what was happening in my life. They…

Photo by Stuart Miles courtesy of Freedigitalphotos.net Sing to the Lord; praise His name. Each day proclaim the good news that He saves. Publish His glorious deeds among the nations. Tell everyone about the amazing things He does. Great is the Lord! He is most worthy of praise! Psalm 96:2-4 (NLT)   ‘Tis the season…

The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is His faithfulness; His mercies begin afresh each morning. Lamentations 3:22-23 (NLT)   After Israel, I spent 4 nights in Prague. I traveled alone, so felt most comfortable eating dinner in the hotel restaurant while reviewing trip photos on my iPad. The…

The Via Delorosa For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10 God always provides what we need to do His work. In the Old Testament, when Moses led the Israelites out of slavery, He instructed them to ask the…

The Pools of Bethesda [At the Pools of Bethesda] Here a great number of disabled people used to lie – the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long…

Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are His dear children. Ephesians 5:1(NLT)   I’ve been told that I’m becoming like my mother. As a teenager, this was an offensive statement, but now I consider it a compliment.   As is bound to happen in a church community, I often teach my friends’…

  Don’t use foul or abusive language. Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them. Ephesians 4:29(NLT)   God’s timing is perfect.   This scripture was BibleGateway.com’s verse of the day on Saturday while I was on retreat with the Senior High…

Everything is possible for him who believes. –Jesus Mark 9:23 (NIV)   Regular readers of Seeds know I’ve been writing about our most reliable source of Truth – Jesus’ teachings. Along this theme, I have a God-incidence to report. (A God-incidence is what I call a ‘coincidence’ that is actually the hand of God.)  …

Let’s see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out, not avoiding worshiping together as some do but spurring each other on. Hebrews 10:24-25 (MSG)  I attended a book signing last night for Jean (Sangster) Niven Lenk, a former member of my church who recently published Fertilizer Happens.  The title aptly describes…