Give me your attention. Nurture the faint awareness that you have already felt. I am indeed alive and nearer to your consciousness than you’ve ever dared believe. Open yourself to the persuasion of my presence. I continue to come to you, to engage you at a deeper and deeper level of your awareness. Let yourself…
Listen to Me: I Stand at the Door, Day 2
Ben Johnson’s book, I Stand at the Door, is written in the first person. The voice is the one who comes knocking on our door – the one for whose birth we await. Listen to these words, imagining they are Christ’s words to you and me and the church in our time. “Behold, I stand at…
I Stand at the Door – First Sunday of Advent
Today we begin. We enter the season of expectation and waiting on this the first Sunday of Advent. Our theme at Heritage this Advent is “Open the Door” and our theme scripture comes from Revelation 3:20 – “Listen! I stand at the door and knock; if you hear my voice and open the door, I will…
Preparation
It was a week ago now that we were entering a beautiful fall day in Kansas, filled with sunny blue skies and temperatures in the 60’s. Twenty-four hours later, we would be busily preparing for a real-life-national-weather service-dubbed blizzard. Only in Kansas. Where there is no place like home. The day of Blizzard 2018 for…
Season of Prayer – Day Forty
Malachi 3:8-18 8 Should a person deceive God? Yet you deceive me. But you say, “How have we deceived you?” With your tenth-part gifts and offerings. 9 You are being cursed with a curse, and you, the entire nation, are robbing me. 10 Bring the whole tenth-part to the storage house so there might be…
Season of Prayer – Day Thirty-nine
1 Peter 5:1-11 1 Therefore, I have a request for the elders among you. (I ask this as a fellow elder and a witness of Christ’s sufferings, and as one who shares in the glory that is about to be revealed.) I urge the elders: 2 Like shepherds, tend the flock of God among…
Season of Prayer – Day Thirty-eight
Matthew 6:19-24 19 “Stop collecting treasures for your own benefit on earth, where moth and rust eat them and where thieves break in and steal them. 20 Instead, collect treasures for yourselves in heaven, where moth and rust don’t eat them and where thieves don’t break in and steal them. 21 Where your treasure…
Season of Prayer – Day Thirty-seven
Acts 3:1-10 1 Peter and John were going up to the temple at three o’clock in the afternoon, the established prayer time. 2 Meanwhile, a man crippled since birth was being carried in. Every day, people would place him at the temple gate known as the Beautiful Gate so he could ask for money…
Season of Prayer – Day Thirty-six
Romans 5:1-11 1 Therefore, since we have been made righteous through his faithfulness combined with our faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 We have access by faith into this grace in which we stand through him, and we boast in the hope of God’s glory. 3 But not only…
Season of Prayer – Day Thirty-five
Micah 6:6-8 6 With what should I approach the LORD and bow down before God on high? Should I come before him with entirely burned offerings, with year-old calves? 7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with many torrents of oil? Should I give my oldest child for my crime; the…
Season of Prayer – Day Thirty-four
1 Corinthians 3:1-15 1 Brothers and sisters, I couldn’t talk to you like spiritual people but like unspiritual people, like babies in Christ. 2 I gave you milk to drink instead of solid food, because you weren’t up to it yet. 3 Now you are still not up to it because you are still…
Season of Prayer – Day Thirty-three
Ephesians 3:7-21 7 I became a servant of the gospel because of the grace that God showed me through the exercise of his power. 8 God gave his grace to me, the least of all God’s people, to preach the good news about the immeasurable riches of Christ to the Gentiles. 9 God sent…
