Author: gabriel

And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint. —Galatians 6:9 The other night in our men’s meeting while…

Our hummingbirds were late coming back this spring, but they are making up for lost time. We now have at least a half dozen humming around our four feeders. They sound like dive bombers as they whiz by your head. As beautiful as they are on the outside, their inner…

I have spent most of my life tugging on unripe fruit. Those who are not quite ready to allow Jesus to transform them into His image. They are not bad. They are just not ready or open to hearing the gospel quite yet. They need time to ripen. Meanwhile, I…

Punkin is our cat. Wanda still calls her Cinderella. Neither name fits her. She is an assassin. She has killed birds, mice, moles, bunnies, and snakes. She is a predator. Now that doesn’t mean she won’t let you scratch her head and belly until your arm falls off while she…

My iPhone 6s is three years old. That is like 50 years in technological time. And it is acting like an old man. It has been draining charge in a day. It cuts off when I answer calls. My GPS just stops working. It tells me the next turn is…

When I was a kid, old people would say when I came to visit, “Well, looky here? Who’s this showing up on my doorstep?” Now, people don’t visit homes anymore. They text. They post on Facebook. They tweet. We seemed to have lost the human connection. But believe me, Papa…

Let be and be still, and know (recognize and understand) that I am God (Psalm 46:10 AMP). We could translate that verse in many ways which still remains true to God’s intention. Cease striving… slow down… cool your jets… chill out… take a break. We often forget that He is…

I was saved years ago… born-again… gave my life to Jesus… confirmed… whatever your church background called it. Basically they told me that Jesus had forgiven me of my sins up to that point. Because I was human, I was still going to sin sometimes. Whenever I sinned, I needed…

1 Corinthians 6:17 NASU— But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him. By His grace, Jesus is bringing me into greater awareness of our oneness together. We are fused together. I can do nothing apart from Him, and He chooses to limit Himself to…

“But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit” (1 Corinthians 6:17 NIV). Think about this. God chose to limit Himself and what He wants to do in the world by joining Himself to us. His purpose for every person on the planet is to…