Village to Village (Sunday Thoughts Link Up #34)

RUTH 1:19-21 19 So the two women went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?” 20 “Don’t call me Naomi,” she told them. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter. 21 I went away full, but the Lord has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The Lord has afflicted me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me.” RUTH 4:14-17 14 The women said to Naomi:

Rest Period. (Sunday Thoughts Link Up #33)

MARK 9:2-4 2 After six days Jesus took Peter, James and John with him and led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone. There he was transfigured before them. 3 His clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them. 4 And there appeared before them Elijah and Moses, who were talking with Jesus. MARK 9:30-32 30 They left that place and passed through Galilee. Jesus did not want anyone to know where they were, 31 because he

Left-Brain Meet Right-Brain. Now Play Nice. (Sunday Thoughts Link Up #32)

I TIMOTHY 4:14-16 14 Do not neglect your gift, which was given you through prophecy when the body of elders laid their hands on you. 15 Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress. 16 Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers. I was aces in chemistry in high school. And biology. And calculus. And physics. And all the

Chasing Joy (Sunday Thoughts Link Up #31)

ACTS 2:25-28 David said about him: “I saw the Lord always before me.     Because he is at my right hand,     I will not be shaken. 26 Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;     my body also will rest in hope, 27 because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead,     you will not let your holy one see decay. 28 You have made known to me the paths of life;     you will fill

On Being an Adjective Instead of a Noun (Sunday Thoughts Link Up #30)

ROMANS 5:12, 18-19 12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned— 18 Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people. 19 For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

How Not to Catastrophize Faith (Sunday Thoughts Link Up #29)

ECCLESIASTES 2:17 & 23 17 So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind…23 All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest. This too is meaningless. ECCLESIASTES 3:22 22 So I saw that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy their work, because that is their lot. For

Letting Loose with God in the Summer (Sunday Thoughts Link Up #28)

MATTHEW 4:18-22 Jesus Calls His First Disciples 18 As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. 19 “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.” 20 At once they left their nets and followed him. 21 Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of

Finding Normality in the Trinity (Sunday Thoughts Link Up #27)

JOHN 14:8-10 8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.” 9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own

You Can Be Lonely in a Family Too (Sunday Thoughts Link Up #26)

PSALM 68:4-6 4 Sing to God, sing in praise of his name, extol him who rides on the clouds; rejoice before him—his name is the Lord. 5A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. 6 God sets the lonely in families, he leads out the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land. David was an excellent orator, as all good leaders tend to be. He

Pretending With Purpose (Sunday Thoughts Link Up #25)

JUDGES 6:11-15 11 The angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites. 12 When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said, “The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.” 13 “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to