Posts with the tag “prayer”

Most of us have places in our lives that used to bother us. The relationship that drifted. The habit we know is costing us something. The dream we quietly filed away. We stopped seeing the ruins because seeing them hurts and not seeing them is easier. But numbness is not healing. And the comeback begins the moment you stop being okay with things being broken.  Read More

Most of us are carrying something we have not brought to Jesus because we are not sure He wants to deal with it. We have made a quiet decision that this particular brokenness is ours to manage and His to overlook. But the leper did not make himself more presentable before he came. He came as he was. And Jesus reached out and touched him before He said a word. The touch came before the healing.  Read More

Long before Revelation, the Hebrew prophets were already using the image of a woman in labor to describe the deepest kind of hope. Not the easy kind. The kind that costs something. Mary stepped into that tradition when she said yes to God before she could see how the story would unfold. No plan. No approval from her community. Just a word from God and the decision of what to do with it. She said yes. She stayed through the cross. She was in the upper room when the Spirit fell. That is what your mother has been doing for you. This one is for her. Read the full post.  Read More

From two years old to ninety plus, GracePointe showed up yesterday. A prayer team on their knees before anyone else moved. Quarters at a laundromat. A prayer walk on First Street. Two cars at a car wash. Yards cleaned for faithful senior members while their neighbors watched and wondered who these people are. That wondering is a door. And we are praying God walks through it. Grace in Action is not a Sunday. It is a posture. And the pointe of grace is always outward.  Read More