GodReflection:Is It Well with My Soul? Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you…… Read more “My Soul’s Greatest Need”
Soul Music
GodReflection:Is It Well with My Soul? My heart, O God, is steadfast; I will sing and make music with all my soul (Psalms 108:1). King David, was…… Read more “Soul Music”
Soul Talk
GodReflection:Is It Well with My Soul? “I heard Your voice from on high. “I am the food of the fully grown. Grow and you will feed on…… Read more “Soul Talk”
Soul Food
GodReflection:Is It Well with My Soul? “I heard Your voice from on high. “I am the food of the fully grown. Grow and you will feed on…… Read more “Soul Food”
Soul Care Assures Soul Health
GodReflection:Is It Well with My Soul? For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life…… Read more “Soul Care Assures Soul Health”
My Soul—Designed by God for God
GodReflection: Is It Well with My Soul? The Incarnate Word has been spoken. It calls the soul back to its place of peace that cannot be disturbed…… Read more “My Soul—Designed by God for God”
My Soul Is Me
GodReflection: Is It Well with My Soul? “Who can plumb its depths? And yet it is a faculty of my soul. Although it is part of my…… Read more “My Soul Is Me”
Is It Well with My Soul?
GodReflection: Is It Well with My Soul? I had not the foggiest notion of what I was getting into when I enrolled in Professor Lemoine Lewis’ class…… Read more “Is It Well with My Soul?”
Human Jesus is the Smile of God
GodReflection: What Make God Smile? I feel a pull from my soul to raise a key consideration as I close this series of posts on God’s smile.…… Read more “Human Jesus is the Smile of God”
God Smiles at Homecomings
GodReflection: What Make God Smile? I have a love/hate association with the word homecoming. Here is what I’ve noticed. Where relationships were genuine I’m drawn to return.…… Read more “God Smiles at Homecomings”
When I Look Around to Look Up—God Smiles
GodReflection: What Make God Smile? I hinted at this in my last post in the declaration that God smiles when I love others as God has loved…… Read more “When I Look Around to Look Up—God Smiles”
God Smiles When I Get It Right
GodReflection: What Make God Smile? Picture a father who loves his children. I mean one who loves them sacrificially and completely. The dad who keeps the first…… Read more “God Smiles When I Get It Right”
When I Love the Church God Smiles
GodReflection: What Make God Smile? For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another (1 John 3:11). Have you ever noticed…… Read more “When I Love the Church God Smiles”
Each Time He Hears Yes God Smiles
GodReflection: What Make God Smile? I say of the holy people who are in the land, “They are the noble ones in whom is all my delight”…… Read more “Each Time He Hears Yes God Smiles”
God Smile When He Gives Grace
GodReflection: What Make God Smile? So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them…… Read more “God Smile When He Gives Grace”
God Smiles When I Honor Him as Holy
GodReflection: What Make God Smile? In my last post I attempted to paint the picture of intimacy with God that is made available through Jesus. I affirmed…… Read more “God Smiles When I Honor Him as Holy”
God Smiles When Children Approach
GodReflection: What Make God Smile? And he took the children in his arms, placed his hands on them and blessed them (Mark 10:16). There is one aspect…… Read more “God Smiles When Children Approach”
What Makes God Smile?
GodReflection: What Make God Smile? God is the Eternal Paradox. My little human brain cannot wrap itself around the contrast poles of God’s love for His created…… Read more “What Makes God Smile?”
When God Calls – A Summation
GodReflection: When God Calls As I bring to a close the attempt made in this series of posts to reflect on When God Calls, I am mindful…… Read more “When God Calls – A Summation”
God Call—His Timing
GodReflection: When God Calls In my last post I closed with a faint echo of God’s call here in my sunset years. Let me make one more…… Read more “God Call—His Timing”
Called Home
GodReflection: When God Calls I don’t intend for this post to sound over-dramatic. It is my observance this is not a subject given much thought nor much…… Read more “Called Home”
Called to Re-up on Trust
GodReflection: When God Calls My phone is about to ring. It’s a nagging thought. It’s a faint voice generated from the core of my soul. Is God…… Read more “Called to Re-up on Trust”
Called to Be
GodReflection: When God Calls I am close to the end of Timothy Keller’s book, Walking with God Through Pain and Suffering. By the way, this is one…… Read more “Called to Be”
Called to Do
GodReflection: When God Calls There was no doubt about it. God was on my phone line. He direct dialed me. The plates of my earth seismically quaked.…… Read more “Called to Do”
Called to Prepare
GodReflection: When God Calls There was only once in my life, perhaps twice, when I received what I would describe as unmistakable calls from the Holy that…… Read more “Called to Prepare”
Called to Follow
GodReflection: When God Calls If you have been reading along with me you might recognized I have addresses today’s reflections at times on previous blog posts. I…… Read more “Called to Follow”
Lord Speak to Me
GodReflection: When God Calls I don’t remember the how or the why behind my participation. At the time the thought of a nudge by the Divine never…… Read more “Lord Speak to Me”
God Calls on a Wide Bandwidth
GodReflection: When God Calls Is it possible that God has called out to you throughout your life and you have responded, even though you were unaware that…… Read more “God Calls on a Wide Bandwidth”
When God Calls
GodReflection: When God Calls At prior times on this Blog I’ve admitted to being a ‘Baby Boomer,’ a great-grandchild of the Enlightenment, and a child of the…… Read more “When God Calls”
I Worship With Available Light
GodReflection: Is Worship for God or for Me? For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what…… Read more “I Worship With Available Light”
He Speaks, I Listen, I Speak, He Listens
GodReflection: Is Worship for God or for Me? It is rather awesome to realize it is actually possible to converse with Creator God—He who made the universe…… Read more “He Speaks, I Listen, I Speak, He Listens”
When I Worship—God Smiles and I am Warmed
GodReflection: Is Worship for God or for Me? The LORD delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love (Psalms 147:11). For…… Read more “When I Worship—God Smiles and I am Warmed”
God Speaks to Me by His Word
GodReflection: Is Worship for God or for Me? Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching (1 Timothy 4:13).…… Read more “God Speaks to Me by His Word”
God’s Holy Spirit is Active in Worship
GodReflection: Is Worship for God or for Me? I sometimes wonder if the traditional way I’ve understood the Holy Spirit is less than helpful. Let me explain.…… Read more “God’s Holy Spirit is Active in Worship”
I Pray, God Listens, Reads my Heart and Acts for Me.
GodReflection: Is Worship for God or for Me? “What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asked him (Mark 10:51). It seems sort of strange…… Read more “I Pray, God Listens, Reads my Heart and Acts for Me.”
I Sing to Him with My Heart – His Approval Feeds my Soul
GodReflection: Is Worship for God or for Me? He says, “I will declare your name to my brothers and sisters; in the assembly I will sing your…… Read more “I Sing to Him with My Heart – His Approval Feeds my Soul”
In Assembly God Gifts Me with His Encouragement
GodReflection: Is Worship for God or for Me? For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught…… Read more “In Assembly God Gifts Me with His Encouragement”
I Bring my Praise, Joy and Thankfulness to God
GodReflection: Is Worship for God or for Me? Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker (Psalms 95:6). Worship Him…… Read more “I Bring my Praise, Joy and Thankfulness to God”
God Presides Over Worship Through His Presence
GodReflection: Is Worship for God or for Me? God presides in the great assembly; he renders judgment among the “gods” (Psalms 82:1). A gift opens the way…… Read more “God Presides Over Worship Through His Presence”
Both AND Worship
GodReflection: Is Worship for God or for Me? Thank you for allowing me to reflect along with you as 2018 begins. I pray it will be a…… Read more “Both AND Worship”
Thankfulness and Blessings
Just a note of thankfulness for being one of those from 92 countries who read over my shoulder as we close out 2017. I consider my blogging…… Read more “Thankfulness and Blessings”
He Planned Eternity for Us to Be Together
GodReflection: Does God Care Specifically About Me? The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our…… Read more “He Planned Eternity for Us to Be Together”
I Take Him at His Word
GodReflection: Does God Care Specifically About Me? I don’t think it is selective memory—but I can’t remember a failure on my dad’s part to keep a promise.…… Read more “I Take Him at His Word”
He Invites Me to Join with Him to Work Together
GodReflection: Does God Care Specifically About Me? It was an invitation that set the direction of my life. There are non-consequential invites and invitations that change the…… Read more “He Invites Me to Join with Him to Work Together”
He Knows My Name and Desires My Company
GodReflection: Does God Care Specifically About Me? Life in the Pecos Valley of New Mexico’s Chihuahuan Desert was rather informal. Mostly, we were on a first name…… Read more “He Knows My Name and Desires My Company”
He Shares with Me His Spirit
GodReflection: Does God Care Specifically About Me? My acquaintance with the Holy Spirit is a process. Like the metamorphic change of a caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly…… Read more “He Shares with Me His Spirit”
I Sit with Him at the Family Table
GodReflection: Does God Care Specifically About Me? “Blessed is the one who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God.” Luke 14:15 I come from…… Read more “I Sit with Him at the Family Table”
He Sees Me with Grace Eyes
GodReflection: Does God Care Specifically About Me? At the ripe old age of eight I was introduced to the world of optometry. I climbed into the big…… Read more “He Sees Me with Grace Eyes”
I Cause Him Pain and He Never Leaves
GodReflection: Does God Care Specifically About Me? To begin this post, I must return to Jesus’ wayward sons story and its focus upon the ever-present father and…… Read more “I Cause Him Pain and He Never Leaves”
He Came to Me and Gave Me Himself
GodReflection: Does God Care Specifically About Me? But God demonstrated his love for us in this: While we were still sinners, [He] died for us (Romans 5:8).…… Read more “He Came to Me and Gave Me Himself”
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