Devotions from Mark Buchanan’s book, Spiritual Rhythm After we have been through the bleak Winter season, the cold lifts and God changes everything, bringing us into Spring.  Where death has reigned, life triumphs and we live in hope.  It could happen suddenly and we may feel joyful and experience emotional renewal, physical renewal, and moral…

Devotions based on Mark Buchanan’s book, Spiritual Rhythm The winter season of our souls calls us to some good work – praying, pruning, waiting; and it also gives us good gifts.  It gives us the opportunity in reimaging our lives. That doesn’t mean we indulge in some fantasy of escape but rather we see our…

Devotions based on Mark Buchanan’s book, Spiritual rhythm When we are in the winter season of our soul there is work in winter that only winter knows.  Like prayer. Prayer is the ongoing work of winter. But we may pray not because we know and see what God is up to, or because we feel…

Devotions from Mark Buchanan’s book, Spiritual Rhythm The season of winter is bleak, cold, dark and fruitless. It is a time of inactivity, more night than day and never seems to end. We would like to run from it, disavow it, or deny it.  Sometimes it feels like it is our personal failure, something we…

Devotions based on Mark Buchanan’s book, Spiritual Rhythm This book is about the 4 distinct seasons of our soul within us. There are seasonal rhythms like flourishing and fruitful, stark and dismal, cool and windy, etc. The seasons have nothing to do with age and seldom the person.  Our responsibility is to know the season…

Devotions based on an article by Stacey Benson As we follow God’s call for our lives I’m sure we’ve all had our share of darts thrown at us by friends, family, and church people.  It may be hurtful words, judgments, criticisms, or untrue accusations against our character. We can respond by building  protective walls or…

Devotions based on Florence MacKenzie’s article about discouragement I think we all get discouraged at times and wish we could run away from difficult circumstances. Mac Kenzie gives us 6 ways to try to defeat discouragement. 1. Choose to believe the character of God.  He loves us with an everlasting love and we need to…

Devotions based on thoughts from an article by Jill Brisco We are all getting older but if we have a heart for God we can be ever young.  The best thing we can do for our world is to know God in such a way that others will look at our life and want to…

Devotions from Michael Molinas’ book, Spiritual Guide Have you dreamed of having great peace that is not affected by trials and adversity that comes your way?  As we are grounded in His love we can experience this peace and welcome whatever comes into our lives. But we must renounce our self nature, any desire to…

Devotions from Michael Molinas book, The Spiritual Guide The wisdom of God is something that is infused within us and leads to an inner knowing of God. Sermons may be given by men of great knowledge and learning but they may lack an experiential knowledge of the internal things of the Spirit.  They may seek…