🌿Breathe Truth🌿 “As evening approached, Joseph of Arimethea took a risk and went to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body.   Joseph was an honored member of the high council, and he was waiting for the Kingdom if God to come.”  —Mark 15:43 🌿Believe Truth🌿 Joseph of Arimethea was an important man with an important…

🌿Breathe Truth🌿 “Potiphar was furious when he heard his wife’s story about how Joseph treated her.  So he took Joseph and threw him into prison.”  —Genesis 39:19 🌿Believe Truth🌿 Have you ever found yourself in the midst of people who treat others ugly and pervert truth? Joseph did. 🍃🍃🍃 He lived with brothers who hated…

🌿Breathe Truth🌿 ”They were all trying to frighten us, thinking, ‘their hands will be too weak for work, and it will not be completed.’  But I prayed, now strengthen my hands.”  —Nehemiah 6:9 🌿Believe Truth🌿 The walls of Jerusalem are under rebuilding.  A Herculean physical task and spiritual undertaking. The physical build up was executed…

🌿Believe Truth🌿 Today, as I was leaving church and going upstairs to pick up my son,  I felt a tug on my shirt.  I turned around.  It was a little boy with his parents.  I recognized him immediately.  I lead worship for a group of elementary kids every Sunday morning.  This little boy was in…

 🌿Breathe Truth🌿 “Keep me safe, O God, for I have come to you for refuge……. I will bless the Lord who guides me; even at night my heart instructs me.  I know the Lord is always with me.  I will not be shaken, for He is right beside me.”  —Psalm 16:1, 7 🌿Believe Truth🌿 Refuge…

🌿Breathe Truth🌿 “Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.”  —Jeremiah 29:12 🌿Believe Truth🌿 Prayer is talking to God.  But what kind of conversations are we participating with God? After the fall of Jerusalem, the prophet Jeremiah stays behind to help those who remain in…

🌿Breathe Truth🌿 “Do what is good and run from evil so that you may live!”  —Amos 5:14 🌿Believe Truth🌿 The highest good possible.  Summum bonum is an expression derived from Latin which means “the highest good.”  Roman philosopher Cicero coined this term as a counterpart to Plato’s Greek concept of the Idea of the Good.  …

🌿Breathe Truth🌿 “The Lord spread a cloud above them as a covering and gave them a great fire to light the darkness.”  —Psalm 104:39 🌿Believe Truth🌿 God’s people have spent more than 400 years in bondage in Egypt.  Their release meant freedom and fear.  Freedom from their oppressors yet fear of an unknown future. What…

🌿Breathe Truth🌿 “We can make our plans, but the Lord directs our steps.”  —Proverbs 16:9 🌿Believe Truth🌿 In 1 Samuel 30, we find a distraught and shaken David.  He and his small army of men come back from a rendezvous with the Philistine army where they are released from fighting.  What they find when they return…