Be patient, young padawan
May 18th, 2026
January 15, 2020 – Momentum is a fickle thing. It can carry you forward on a powerful wave or just dump you and dissipate in an instant. So, here’s a good question, why do we rely so much upon momentu...  Read More
by Bruce Smith
Be careful, swords are sharp
May 17th, 2026
For we have the living Word of God, which is full of energy, and it pierces more sharply than a two-edged sword. It will even penetrate to the very core of our being where soul and spirit, bone and ma...  Read More
by Bruce Smith
Personal Legend
May 16th, 2026
To realize one’s Personal Legend is a person’s only real obligation.-Paulo Cuelho, The Alchemist _____________________________ For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky....  Read More
by Bruce Smith
Gratitude
May 15th, 2026
And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him. Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the...  Read More
by Bruce Smith
You swine--Me swine
May 14th, 2026
November 21, 2018 - Mark 5:1-20 is the amazing story of when Jesus encountered the crazy, naked man who was possessed by an entire legion of demons. Jesus cast the demons out into a heard of pigs that...  Read More
by Bruce Smith
Questions
May 13th, 2026
November 14, 2018 – Do I have a lack of discipline? Do I really love God and love people? Have I reached a point where I no longer have hope?  These questions represent some of my biggest fears. They ...  Read More
by Bruce Smith
Wisdom & Discernment
May 12th, 2026
Next Jesus was taken into the wild by the Spirit for the Test. The Devil was ready to give it. Jesus prepared for the Test by fasting forty days and forty nights. That left him, of course, in a state ...  Read More
by Bruce Smith
Scars
May 11th, 2026
No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive th...  Read More
by Bruce Smith
What if we didn't play by their rules
May 10th, 2026
Beloved friends, what should be our proper response to God’s marvelous mercies? I encourage you to surrender yourselves to God to be his sacred, living sacrifices. And live in holiness, experiencing a...  Read More
by Bruce Smith
Journaling, Ugh
May 9th, 2026
That’s the way I felt about journaling for so much of my life. I didn’t like it. I wasn’t good at it or consistent enough to be of any value to me. Thanks to the encouragement of John Eldredge and the...  Read More
by Bruce Smith
Redeemed
May 8th, 2026
They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day…-Genesis 3:8 (NASB) _____________________________ Adam and Eve had the amazing privilege of having God come down and v...  Read More
by Bruce Smith
A New Day
May 7th, 2026
February 10, 2016 – Twenty-six years ago, the direction of my life changed. I saw a vision of myself standing before a group of people with the Bible in my hands. I knew so certainly then that God was...  Read More
by Bruce Smith
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