Taking It to Work: One of my favorite Christmas paintings is by Gaye Frances Willard, showing Santa Claus bowing to the infant Jesus. One of my favorite bible verses goes along with it, Philippians 2:10, and is actually the name of the painting, “Every Knee Shall Bow”. That painting moves Read more…
Taking It to Work: The world’s system rewards the powerful and the wealthy. In the professional world, it is talent and accomplishment that get you noticed. Leaders are honored and esteemed, and the highest positions are reserved for those who have made the most out of their opportunities. The four Read more…
Taking It to Work: It’s hard to believe that when we give our lives to God, we become so much more than who we were. We still look the same, and feel almost the same, but our faith says something different. We become a new person, empowered by the God Read more…
Listening to the Holy Spirit: My light enters, and darkness flees. There will be no retreat from the Light, for each will know of My coming, and denial will not be of option. All will know My call, and those who come, kings and peasants, they shall be lifted. In faith Read more…
Listening to the Holy Spirit: Who among men is greater than the Father? Whom has walked in obedience as the Son? Yet there are those who rise up claiming strength and command, where neither is warrant. Such as these submit not to authority, for their pride is their king, and Read more…
Listening to the Holy Spirit: The highest place is not for kings; the Father’s realm is not of man. The lifting is of the lowly, and high hill is for the humble. He who presses upward for his own gain, gains only loss. Those pressed down to lift are the Read more…
Listening to the Holy Spirit: It flows as water and nourishes all those in which it contacts. Insult burns the roots of relationship. Honor grows it deeper, that storms on the surface do not uproot. Age is an indicator. An elder is to be respected, and a youth corrected with Read more…
Listening to the Holy Spirit: Man answers man, but the children of the Father answer to the God they serve. It is a great honor, always in time, to be chosen as a servant to a good king. Of highest esteem were these servants held. Men grow proud in service Read more…
In all ages past there has been difficulty. Sin and throne blind the sinner, and those who follow these, blinded still the more, but without sin. You must judge only by the fruit, for a tree is not rendered good until after the crop. The bushel determines the tree and Read more…
The highest place is not for kings; the Father’s realm is not of man. The lifting is of the lowly, and high hill is for the humble. He who presses upward for his own gain, gains only loss. Those pressed down to lift are the greatest of men. The scale Read more…