Christ Heart! – JoJo

I keep seeing him carrying the cross!  It brings weeping… It brings deep sadness to my heart as I picture it. Imagine lifting a crosstie on your shoulder.  Imagine  doing that after your back was beaten to the point that muscle, ribs and tendons were exposed. Imagine the burning in your muscles as you were…

There is so much we don’t know…  we don’t understand. So much mystery surrounds our Savior… our God.  His word is not black and white, but so many shades of grey.  Why does that scare us?  Why does it make us uncomfortable? Why do we seek to have the answers to feel secure?  Do you…

He started with forty and ended with three.  Forty days… alone… tempted… fighting… satan in his face each step of the way.  Each day was a battle and each step grew harder and harder.  After the forty he came out of the desert having dealt with satan.  It was not over!  Three years later on…

I don’t know about you but I’m weary.  Weary of the scandals.  Weary of the violence.  Weary of the never ending hatred.  I try to bury my head in the sand but it creeps in like a prowler.  Then I pray and he shows me hope.  He shows me compassion.  He reveals to me the…

He is fully human.  He is fully God.  He embraces the spirit, as the three live in each other.  This is a Savior who through the Trinity climbs into our lives and makes beauty out of our mess… out of our pain… out of our sin.  This is a God who can take the ugliest,…

Do you give God what he asks for… or what he needs?  When this question entered my thoughts I found it to be strange. God doesn’t need anything from us.  The more I have contemplated, the more I have come to understand, the depth behind this question, the Holy Spirit put on my heart.  There…