Come Alive with Jesus, a beautiful new journal produced by Jesse and Kara Birkey, is now available here.
The man sat rigid in his chair and twisted a few times. Each movement produced a wince.
I watched him for a few seconds before I felt my spirit begin to stir. I strolled over and introduced myself. “Hey, I’m Jesse.” I held out my hand and he gripped it like a vice.
“Sal,” he replied.
“What’s going on with your back?”
One mans trash is another mans treasure
Clichés are often the source of a collective groan. But in the midst of extreme overuse, things that are supposed to matter become lost.
There’s a reason some sayings eventually fall into the cliché category. There’s truth in them important enough to be repeated.
My life was radically transformed when I had an encounter with God while I was in college. Growing up, I never really believed in God although I was raised in a Christian home. Being preoccupied with life and not being able to see God in our church service made me doubt his existence.
As I got older, I felt the need to find my worth and fulfillment by falling into many temptations. While in college, I started drinking and hooking up with guys, though I didn't enjoy doing it. I thought being a cool cat would help me find my purpose and satisfaction in life.
Life has a way of sneaking up on us sometimes. It seems that the days can go from quiet to crazy in the blink of an eye. It’s in times like these that we start to wonder if there really are enough hours in the day.
Well, it was Easter. Or Resurrection Day for all of you who know the origins of Easter and feel strongly opposed to it. Regardless, Jesus is alive. WooHoo!
Anyway, I happened to be in sitting in church. You may remember me talking about how we primarily meet in home groups. We joke about how quickly we are becoming members of the Christmas and Easter church going crowd. Sometimes that’s still a strange feeling.
You’re afraid of pride and it’s keeping you from hearing things I’d really love you to hear.
Reminder: We want to hear your stories!! You don’t have to be a writer, author, or anything like that to share a testimony. I’d love to hear and then share your favorite testimony of how God used you in someone else’s life. No story is insignificant. Any way God has used you to bless someone is extraordinary and we all need to hear about it.
So, Michael Van Vlymen wrote a book called, Angelic Visitations and Supernatural Encounters. In it he writes, “You can’t judge what’s of God and what’s not by its level of weirdness.”
Knock-knock-knock
I looked up from my spot on the couch and wondered which of the neighborhood kids was at the door. I was about to holler for my son to answer the door for his friend when I noticed the shadow playing through the window was much larger than a ten year old. Unless, you know, this particular ten year old happened to be a giant.
