Thoughts from the Edges

Viewing Life from the Edge while centering on Jesus

  • Following Up – Something personal.

    It’s early in the morning and Sunday is before me. Never did I ever imagine that when the Holy Spirit spoke the word Expectancy into my heart for my Saturday Morning Devotion to Prepare our Hearts for Worship, would I experience a continual teaching on what it is to be Expecting. Most of the time…

  • Thoughts from the Edges Preparing Our Hearts for Worship.

    SATURDAY MORNING PREPARING OUR HEARTS FOR WORSHIPThoughts From the Edges – Pastor Calvin Cook WORSHIP – EXPECTING MORE –I watched a movie this week of a very well-known Christian song writer, performer Rich Mullins who lived a very indifferent life and died at a very young age. By an indifferent life, I mean, as God…

  • From the Edges – Searching for Sanctuary

    FROM the EDGES – Seeking what We Are Searching For Pastor Calvin Cook Focus Jeremiah 29:15-23 This morning I found myself searching for Sanctuary. As I have told you in writing and preaching, of that desire to find Sanctuary. The meaning of Sanctuary can muster up many thoughts some of which being “a consecrated place…

  • From the Edges – When did the trouble start?

    From the Edges – Morning Devotional When did the Trouble Start – Scripture focus – Jeremiah 29:15-19 In the middle of Jeremiah 29 at verse 15 we start to see a shift. It is almost like we live in this gooey, fuzzy, warm feeling relationship where we feel the assurance from God that everything will…

  • From the Edges Seek and Find

    Morning Devotion – From the EdgesSEEK and FINDJeremiah 29:13 & 1413You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. 14I will be found by you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished…

  • From the Edges – A Plan to Last – Morning Devotional

    FROM THE EDGES – MORNING DEVOTIONALToday’s focus Jeremiah 29:12A Plan to LastPastor Calvin CookBeing a visionary goal-oriented person, I am always seeing the place I want to be. Dreaming and visioning of those things which are possible. One of the first realizations In this mind-set, what is the plan that will get me to the…

  • FROM THE EDGES All I need.

    Pastor Calvin Cook Today’s focus Jeremiah 29:11 That is All I Need – What do we need today? Seriously what is it that we need? I have had times in my life when my wants outweighed my needs. I can remember a time as a young boy when things weren’t going my way that I…

  • Saturday Morning Heart for Worship

    SATURDAY MORNING DEVOTIONAL to PREPARE OUR HEARTS FOR WORSHIPPastor Calvin CookWORSHIP – BEING EMPTYSeveral years ago, I was traveling and came upon a gas station that had really cheap gas. Not knowing the area or the gas station, I bought into the savings and filled my almost empty tank up at quite a savings. It…

  • Morning Devotional From the Edges “The Good Promise Renewed”

    todays focus JEREMIAH 29:10 The Good Promise Renewed – If you know Gail and I well, you know we have these two Manx cats, Mabel and Sylvia that occupy a lot of our attention. Even though they don’t ask for our attention when they are in “missing mode” we seek to find them, wherever they…

  • Be careful of the Instruction.

    MORNING DEVOTIONAL – From the EdgesPastor Calvin Cook –JEREMIAH 29:8&9I am asking the question this morning; Is the instruction I am receiving sound and is it edifying to my wellbeing? In the William Shakespeare poem “The Tempest” we read these words:“Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight…

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