From A Friend: “May you–above all else–see yourself as someone Jesus loves. May His affection for you heal you in the deepest ways and inspire you like nothing else ever has. May His saving grace and enabling power compel you to dream with Him, believe in Him, and take crazy-faith-steps because of Him. May every lesser voice and every lying circumstance fall…

What the heck! On Saturday morning I sauntered out to my driveway to get the newspaper and there parked next to my garage was a old Ford pickup with a young Latino couple asleep in the front seat. My first thought? The old Everly Brothers song, “Wake Up Little Suzie.” My next thought. Could have been me at that age. I tapped on…

Study in Acts: I’ve had lots of requests for the power point from Sunday’s message a week ago. Here it is with the introduction… In Acts 11:19- 28, God releases a mighty revival in Antioch. Large numbers believed and many turned to the Lord. Barnabas and Saul of Tarsus connect, mentoring the believers in the church and it grew even more. Disciples…

Three Tame Ducks I have three tame ducks in my backyard Who play in the mud and try real hard To get their share and even more Of the overflowing backyard store They’re fairly content with the task they’re at Of eating and sleeping and getting fat But when the wild ducks fly by In a streaming line across the sky They…

What’s Going On In Your Head? Whatever you focus on. What you give attention to. What you constantly think about. What you look at. What you ruminate over…..be assured of this, you give it power over your life. And whatever it is will impart either good or evil. Affect you for the better or worse. Lift you up or take you down. Make…

Feedback: Last week I penned a devotional – “Out of Joint” where I confessed that I’ve not been myself lately, feeling annoyed, irritated and out of sorts. I discovered there’s lots of others in the same boat. Here are a few responses. I’m not sharing names as much written is personal… “Snappy, short and grouchy,… Yep, that’s me, all day today!  Thank you…

On Sunday, Jeff mentioned that we can sometimes get “out of joint,” meaning we are not ourselves, that something has put us into a state that is not usual or normal. He shared how his foot went out of joint when he was surfing once. Very painful and distressing. I’ve been “out of joint” lately. I don’t quite know why but I’m…

Some Responses to Last Week’s Devotional on Love… From Dale Ghere :A friend sent me a letter today that included, “The nicest place to be is in someone’s thoughts, the safest place to be is in someone’s prayers, and the very best place to be is….WITH SOMEONE WHO LOVES YOU AS YOU ARE….Dale From Steve Dixon: Hi Pastor Jay, I was on my way home from…

Nothing is More Important: When life is over, your life and mine will be measured by one overriding quality – love. Whether we loved or we didn’t love. We can perform thousands of good deeds in life but without real love there is no profit to anything we do. In other words, love is everything. So this is a question I must…

Call to Pray With Tears (from Sufen, a friend of Little Church and a Singaporean/Chinese missionary): In this prayer journey I am on, I have been feeling God’s heart for His people more and more, and in a deeper way. Many times in the past year when I prayed for the nations, I had no words to pray but kept weeping. In the…