A while back I was really moved by the song “Lord of Lords” and wrote down a thought about it, but never finished it. I was hit by another thought today and I found this draft and thought it was time that I finished it.
“Lord of Lords”
Beholding Your beauty
Is all that I long for
To worship [...]
It’s been almost a month since I have last posted a devotional though and I’m realizing what a huge communication gap that is. Over this last month I have had a lot happen and taken a whole new step in my life. On August 24th I became a student at Winona State and took a [...]
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“Because of the Lords great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning, great is your faithfulness.” – Lamentation 3:22-23
A while ago I wrote about sacrificing comfort and living in away that denies all of our own selfish levels of what we want to do and giving our [...]
Two weeks ago I went to the second week of the teen camp session at FPYC and learned a lot about stepping outside my comfort zone. The theme of the session was “Rise Up”, but that quickly turned into “Do Hard Things”. Just a few days earlier I had finished a book called “Do Hard Things” by the [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...Ever since I was a kid I have had this fear of dying from suffocation. The thought of not being able to breath gives me the chills! Breathing feels so good and obviously without it our body is in agony to get a breath. I used to have breath holding contests with my brothers when I was little. [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...Yesterday as I was driving through a small town I thought about what an everyday thing it must be for the people that live here. It’s very interesting to drive along and see all the pretty towns and landscapes that are so amazing to me, but I wonder what it’s like for them? I thought [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...“Growing up”
“Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.” – 1 Peter 2:2-3
Looking back on the decisions we have made, either recently or retrieved from the archives, they sometimes seem immature. When I [...]
“I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand.”
- Jesus Christ
Growing up one of the many children’s songs I learned was “He’s got the whole world.” I was reminded of the verse “He’s got the whole world in His hands” today when a bird hit [...]
I was thinking the other day about how the interactions we have affect our life. Small things like seeing the lady at the gas station, a person with a sad expression, or even saying on a shirt that you don’t agree with all affect us. It’s really interesting to me how our days is are [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...“Pain in the race”
“Therefore since we are surrounded by such a great crowd of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and protector of our faith, [...]