As you know, before moving to Montana, I spent a few years working in the IT world as a network and systems administrator for the school district back in Arkansas. That big fancy title meant that I sp...  Read More

To all who mourn in Israel, he will give a crown of beauty for ashes, a joyous blessing instead of mourning, festive praise instead of despair. In their righteousness, they will be like great oaks tha...  Read More

Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. For behold, darkness shall cover the earth and thick darkness the peoples; but the Lord will arise upon you, and hi...  Read More

We desperately need God to intervene on our behalf. We so easily slip into routines that slowly, incrementally move us away from our closeness to God, and worse, we don’t even notice. As I write this ...  Read More

And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” And likewise, the cup after they had ...  Read More

These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship is a farce, for they teach man-made ideas as commands from God.-Matthew 15:8-9 (NLT) ___________________________ ...  Read More

When you think of a crisis and how people refer to it, you think, mental health crisis or loneliness crisis, which usually means we have a crisis of whatever word precedes the word crisis. I picked to...  Read More

A few days ago, we talked about the name of God. His name has so many facets because his followers, all the way from Adam to us, called him by what they experienced from him. Today, I want to zoom in ...  Read More

And forgive us our sins, as we have forgiven those who sin against us.-Matthew 6:12 (NLT) __________________________ Back on day twenty-five of this devotional, we talked about the process of forgiven...  Read More

Give us today our daily bread.-Matthew 6:11 (NIV) _________________________ When I pray the words “daily bread” my thoughts immediately go to the manna that God provided the Israelites in the desert. ...  Read More

May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.-Matthew 6:10b (NLT) ___________________________ I don’t know about you, but that has always seemed like a strange thing to teach us to pray. Isn’t G...  Read More

Kingdom Come. Those two words are the cry of our hearts for things to be set right. They are a longing for a life free of pain and struggle and sin. They are a call from deep within our souls to be re...  Read More