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Bo is Blogging?
I am surprised that I am doing this. My initial reaction to blogs was to balk at the casual, not well thought out nature of blogging. It felt like someone was posting their private journal, with all its ramblings and half baked ideas, to the world. Why would someone do that? Get your thoughts more together before you present them for…
Keep reading“Why do you want to know Me?”
This is what I thought I heard recently from God when I was praying to know Him more. It is a good question that got me thinking about my motives. Do I want to know God because I want to learn how to access the power to make my life better? I think there is…
Keep readingRestoring Devotion
How is God at work in the world we live in? What is He up to? What answer to these questions explains why we sometimes celebrate God dramatically acting in healing and deliverance, but also lament situations where He does not act in healing and deliverance? And frankly, if we are honestly facing the world…
Keep readingNever Not Working
If you watch sports on TV you are familiar with this phrase from a Head & Shoulders commercial with Troy Polamalu and Patrick Mahomes. Polamalu keeps popping up in Mahomes’ life claiming he is never not working and it is meant to advertise that Head & Shoulders is always working to protect your hair and…
Keep readingIs It Safe?
From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This shall…
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- Daniel Fast at Work
- What do you expect?
- Reading Scripture
- Job’s Restoration
- A Subtle Distinction II
- A Subtle Distinction
- A God of Seeing
- Relying on God at Work
- Is God Reliable?
- Strangely Encouraged
- Is God Really Real?
- A Perspective on Hope
- Longing and Expectation
- Longing and Fulfillment
- Longing….a firm foundation?
- “the flesh is weak”
- Outcome-based Faith VI
- Outcome-based Faith V
- Outcome-based Faith IV
- Outcome-based Faith III
- Outcome-based Faith II
- Outcome-based Faith
- Sailors in Acts 27
- Hope That Is In You
- Ought…Is…Can…Will II
- Ought…Is…Can…Will
- God and Decision Making II
- God and Decision Making
- God of the Living II
- God of the Living
- Working Shepherds
- “It is what it is” II
- “It is what it is”
- Being Thankful II
- Being Thankful
- God in the World
- God In Nature
- Weathering Storms
- Works and Workmanship
- More On Power II
- More on Power
- Working with God III
- Working with God II
- Working with God
- Prayer Journal Reflection
- Praying For Work
- Surrender and Devotion
- Resignation and Deism
- Resignation vs Surrender
- Heb 11 Assurance & Conviction
- Heb 11 Commendation
- Heb 11 Rahab
- Heb 11 Faith/Attention for Paul
- Heb 11 Faith as Attention
- Heb 11 God is Not Ashamed
- Heb 11 Greeting From Afar
- Heb 11 Outcomes in Tension
- Heb 11 Enduring & Expecting II
- Heb 11 Expectation & Endurance
- Hebrews 11 Faith & Future
- Hebrews 11 “By Faith”
- Certainty and Knowing God
- Certainty and Mystery
- Certainty and Work
- Certainty and God’s Voice
- Certainty and the Church
- Certainty and Biblical Truth
- Certainty and Covid
- Quest For Certainty
- Tree Rings & Spiritual Growth II
- Tree Rings & Spiritual Growth
- Embracing Self-Denial IV
- Embracing Self-Denial III
- Embracing Self-Denial II
- Embracing Self-Denial
- Self-Denial….. No Thanks Part III
- Self-Denial…No Thanks Part II
- Self-Denial….No Thanks
- Thanksgiving and Cross Bearing
- Spiritual Disciplines Problem
- Spiritual Disciplines
- He who began a good work…
- Experiencing God VI
- Experiencing God V
- Experiencing God IV
- Experiencing God III
- Experiencing God II
- Experiencing God
- Much Debate?
- Voice of the Lord vs Understanding
- Jerusalem Council
- Jesus Take the Wheel ?
- The Voice of the Lord ?
- Rewards Those Who Seek Him
- Jesus on Prayer – Application
- Jesus on Prayer IV
- Jesus on Prayer III
- Jesus on Prayer II
- Jesus on Prayer I
- Do You Pray?