by Elaine Olsen | Mar 12, 2009 | friendship, grace, living God's truth, pilgrimage, rest
For Joy… may you find some good soil with our good God this day. “Then he told them many things in parables, saying: ‘A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky...
by Elaine Olsen | Mar 2, 2009 | brokenness, church life, freedom, grace, living God's truth, surrender, trust, video
“But as you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by men but chosen by God, and precious to him—you, also, like living stones are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices to God acceptable to him through Jesus Christ.”...
by Elaine Olsen | Feb 19, 2009 | christian perfection, grace, living God's truth, trust
“Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. (1 Corinthians 9:24). I didn’t mean to find them. They were hidden there amidst the accolades of my former season: diplomas, caps and gowns,...
by Elaine Olsen | Feb 14, 2009 | freedom, grace, living God's truth, night visits, surrender
“About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everybody’s...
by Elaine Olsen | Feb 2, 2009 | grace, living God's truth, pilgrimage, words
*Please note update below post… “For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.” (1 Corinthians 2:2). For all of the ways that we could spend our words this week, what is more worthy than spending them on the truth of...
by Elaine Olsen | Jan 26, 2009 | conviction, Easter, grace, living God's truth, surrender
“Then she called, ‘Samson, the Philistines are upon you!’ He awoke from his sleep and thought, ‘I’ll go out as before and shake myself free. But he did not know that the LORD had left him. Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes and took him down to Gaza....
