So much going on that my head is spinning... or maybe that's just the annual spring migraine uptick or ME/CFS/long covid issues... Or maybe just my Heather Hazard-ness kicking in. Either way, it's been a hot second since I've had a chance to jump on here and a pretty warm minute since I've had much … Continue reading Super Quick Update
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.Genesis 1:27 I'm sitting at my desk, eighteen days into the year 2022 and near the end of my second quarantine, thinking about how absurd it is for humanity to discuss the idea of … Continue reading Alien
On the first day of 2022, a Saturday morning, I took a walk at 10:00 am in shorts and a t-shirt, working up a bit of a sweat in the 73-degree weather. I tried to squeeze in some yard work but the expected rains drove me indoors. The next night, snow fell. I woke up … Continue reading New Year… Almost
The good Lord willing and the creek don't rise.Origin Unknown I grew up hearing this phrase, always uttered by an older person and always in closing a discussion about upcoming events. It was a disclaimer of sorts acknowledging the element of uncertainty in any planning session. We'll see you on Saturday, the good Lord willing … Continue reading Rising Waters
So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.Romans 8:12-13, ESV I recently learned that the devotions I've written for … Continue reading Debtors
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he … Continue reading Christ’s Likeness
And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles … Continue reading A Thorny Problem
.... as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.Ephesians 5:23b For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.Romans 12:4-5 In a recent … Continue reading Food for Thought
While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them.But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.Luke 24:15-16 Some things never change. When Jesus of Nazareth walked the dusty streets of the Middle East as a Man, His ministry evoked a wide range of emotions from God's chosen people. He … Continue reading Perspective
Originally published for my church family as part of the Brentwood Baptist Daily Devotional. Then a servant girl, seeing him as he sat in the light and looking closely at him, said, “This man also was with him.” But he denied it, saying, “Woman, I do not know him.” Luke 22:56-57 Read Luke 22:54-62 I would love … Continue reading Denials in Deed
Running the Race 