From Wrath to Restoration

"You're blessed when you feel you've lost what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most dear to you." Matthew 5:4, Message Grief easily morphs into fear, when you have lost the dearest thing in the world to yourself. Suddenly your tears, angst and pain explode in your…Read more From Wrath to Restoration

Choosing the Life God’s Blesses

"You're blessed when you are at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule." Matthew 5:3, Message The life filled with more blessings than we can contain is predicated upon choosing the life that God has promised to bless. This blessed life isn't necessarily a life…Read more Choosing the Life God’s Blesses

Monday Meditations 2011-01-24

Waking up Monday mornings is one of my better days of the week.  The plans and thoughts for the week bring me right out of a deep sleep eager to get up and go.  Michigan winters battle me for just a moment though.  We lower our heat to 55° at night and it doesn’t go…Read more Monday Meditations 2011-01-24

How to Study your Bible for your Devotions

"Jesus provided far more God revealing signs than are written down in this book.  These are written down so that you will believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and in the act of believing, have real and eternal life in the way he personally revealed it." John 20:30-31, Message Believe it's…Read more How to Study your Bible for your Devotions

Discover God’s Blessings

Discover is a key word around Woodland Church. We discovered that when people discover something for themselves they have ownership of it. It is the reason that when my children would ask what a word meant, we would look it up in the dictionary. They would remember the word, they owned it in a sense.…Read more Discover God’s Blessings

Blessing: What God does for you and through you

She was an elderly blind woman sitting on the right hand side of the sanctuary.  I saw her and I knew God was going to heal her.  Don't ask me to explain it.  You just have to know that God does that sort of thing because He is good and loving. After I finished speaking…Read more Blessing: What God does for you and through you

Resolved

My nephew, Phillip was teaching me how to use his bow and arrow last week. He can hit a bullseye. I missed the broadside of a barn. He hit a Coke can. I shot the arrow over the hill. He has finesse. I popped myself hard in the nose when I released the string. He…Read more Resolved

Resolved

My nephew, Phillip was teaching me how to use his bow and arrow last week. He can hit a bullseye. I missed the broadside of a barn. He hit a Coke can. I shot the arrow over the hill. He has finesse. I popped myself hard in the nose when I released the string. He…Read more Resolved

Christmas and the Sovereign God!

Christmas is also a time when we remember the sovereignty of God. Christ was born! The sovereignty of God is one of of life's greatest comforts to me. God is in control! The tyrants of the world like Herod who fear God's plans are nothing before the Lord. The stories of the Old Testament show…Read more Christmas and the Sovereign God!

Christmas – One step at a time.

Michael Card's "Joseph's Song" is beautiful musical story of Joseph's love for the Son of God he was called to adopt. Each time it's played in our home I begin to sing. Like Joseph, Dads learn that you have to take fathering one step at a time. The angel's message to Joseph about Jesus' miraculous…Read more Christmas – One step at a time.