Devotions (Page 29)

This past spring, the church family memorized 1 John 3:16-18 for our quarterly memory verse. During the month of September, the pastoral team has also been fasting together as we do listening prayer to prepare for the new year in January. As I spent some time thinking about the new year, the memory verse above from 1 John 3 came to mind. I think this verse gives us some clues about what God is up to in the Lifespring family,…

During this week I was listening to a podcast and one of the guys said this quote that really struck a chord in me and it goes like this:“You don’t get right with God, you get righteous.” When I heard that I felt the Holy Spirit start to speak to me about what this could mean. The guy on the podcast didn’t fully explain the quote except highlighting the fact that we don’t have to be all “prim and proper”…

If you have ever had back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, leg pain, basically any bodily pain you know that there is much discomfort in your body. As I embarked on a journey to discover why my back/neck/shoulders were consistently a discomfort I found myself at a chiropractor. After some x-rays, tests, and general ‘cracking’ – he told me that my neck and spine were slightly off and that an adjustment plan was needed. To be honest, I was a…

Dear LifeSpring Family, What a blessing to be a part of yesterday’s baby dedication of four beautiful babies. I love baby dedications because they bring so much hope for all of us in LifeSpring. Thank you for the opportunity to share what God is doing in Thailand and Singapore. And thank you for partnering with God through us for what he was to do in Thailand and Singapore. As I shared with many of you yesterday, for the past several…

This morning I saw an amazing video clip of an elderly Italian woman discovering the mystery and wonder of Google Home for the first time (you can watch it here below). Her younger family members were coaching her on how to activate it and then giving her ideas of what to ask… her shock when the little speaker in front of her told her the weather in her hometown was hilarious! The captions that went along with it were comparing…

It was wonderful to be with Ray, Kevin, and Andrea last Sunday as they took the step to be baptized and publicly declare their faith and commitment to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It was great to see so many faces old and new as we celebrated this major step in their lives and gathered with friends and family. One of my favorite parts of the baptism were the testimonies that Ray, Kevin, and Andrea shared. There was so…

Baptism is a public declaration that the one being baptized fully submits and agrees to the teaching and ways of the name in which you are baptized under. In this case – the act of baptism in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is declaring to the world that you believe and will obey the ways of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.  Baptism also has a significant spiritual impact. As one comes…

I remember on Sunday July 24th, 2022, we got to hear from Mary Cho & Carl and Rosy Wilson, both missionaries who chose to serve God and continue to choose to serve God despite all the setbacks because they’ve tasted something that only God can give and they want to share it with the world. There was a line from Carl that really caught my attention. He said “Evangelism is one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread.” I…

It’s great to be back at Lifespring! As many of you know, I took a leave of absence from my duties on staff at the church from May to August in order to work on finishing my dissertation (read about that here: https://www.life-spring.org/making-every-effort/). I can gladly say that I now have just over 175 pages of my dissertation written, out of a total of around 225 pages. I’ll be sending a more detailed update and thank-you to the church family…

In a year that we have specifically focused on “For His Name’s Sake”, the Lord has been bringing Lifespring into a much deeper understanding of who He is and what “His Name’s Sake” even means! It has shifted our collective perspective from being focused on our current situations and to considering life from a heavenly one. It has led us to re-examine our motivations when we serve others and to challenge if we are doing things for our own name’s…

In a book I’m reading called “Today Matters” by John Maxwell, given to me by Jerry Chee, talks about the importance of focusing on today and how today matters just as much as tomorrow and even yesterday. One of the chapters talks about attitude and how your attitude shapes your perspective and more importantly how it shapes your day. We all know that the gap between having a good attitude and bad attitude is more than a centimeter long and…

Sometimes I can get a little caught up in the details… For example, if I have a major project ahead of me, sometimes I find myself focused on small things like the font or formatting rather than sorting out what the substance of the project will be. Or if I have a big event coming up, rather than figuring out how I will get to the event or how I will get back home, I’ll spend hours figuring out what…