Jesus, My Friend

Jesus, My Friend

“No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.” — John 15:15 NASB In December 2019, after 25 years of living in...
Jesus, My Friend

God in the Mud

Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of his servant? Let him who walks in darkness and has no light trust in the name of the LORD and rely on his God. — Isaiah 50:10 ESV We were sitting in the airport excitedly anticipating our trip back to the US to...
Jesus, My Friend

Hope in Our King

Ephesians 1:18-20 and Psalm 46 Something has happened in my brain these days that I can’t easily explain. I can sheepishly admit how as a global worker living on foreign soil, I ignored the rhetoric in the United States. News cycles would come and go, and I never felt...
Jesus, My Friend

Jesus, the Author of My Story

“For God alone my soul waits in silence and quietly submits to Him, truly, For my hope is from Him.” — Psalm 62:5 AMP I have the privilege of hearing the life stories of many people. I’m rarely bored as I sit listening, even to the worst of story-tellers,...
Jesus, My Friend

Tear-Catcher

“You have taken account of my wanderings; Put my tears into Your bottle. Are they not in Your book?” — Psalm 56:8 NASB “In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his...