by crystalstine | Jan 5, 2021 | Love God Greatly Posts, Shame Breaker |
In our Scripture today we find ourselves in Abraham and Sarah’s story. Abraham (called Abram at this point) had already received God’s promise to give him an heir and descendants more numerous than the stars in the sky (Genesis 15:1-6). It was an unbelievable promise...
by crystalstine | Nov 30, 2020 | Everlasting Covenant - Advent 2020, Love God Greatly Posts |
Our reading today comes from Matthew 5, which is referred to as the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus is shifting into His public ministry and is preparing His disciples for all the ways they are to be set apart from the the scribes, Pharisees, and Gentiles. Jesus focuses on...
by crystalstine | Nov 26, 2020 | Everlasting Covenant - Advent 2020, Love God Greatly Posts |
My daughter has a very special ability to say in ten minutes and a thousand words a story that would take me one sentence and less than a minute. You would assume she had inherited that skill from the author in the family, but no – that is a gift from my husband...
by crystalstine | Nov 3, 2020 | Jesus Our Everything/Hebrews, Love God Greatly Posts |
I sat at our kitchen table as conversations swirled around me. There were empty pizza boxes, sticky bowls from ice cream, games waiting to be played, but what drew my attention were the soft voices of the three cousins I could see in our living room. I could tell by...
by crystalstine | Oct 11, 2020 | Jesus Our Everything/Hebrews, Love God Greatly Posts |
Do not grow weary. Are you there, too? Weary and wondering where the space to slow down and take a deep breath will be. Running on empty, pouring out constantly, doing all the right and necessary and good things but feeling like you have nothing left to give....