Thoughts from the Edges

Tag: faith

  • From the Edges – Walking the Way !

    Morning Devotions – Walking the Way! Scripture focus – Jeremiah 31 Walking the way of the Lord is tough. We want to, we really want to, but there are so many distractions. In our trying to be faithful to the call of the Lord but more to walking within the will of God. We don’t…

  • From the Edges – At the Mountain Top

    Morning Devotions – From the Edges Pastor Calvin Cook Where you have been to where you are going Scripture focus – Jeremiah 30:8-10 In that day, declares the Lord Almighty, I will break the yoke off their necks and will tear off their bonds; no longer will foreigners enslave them. . Instead, they will serve…

  • From the Edges – Why Things Didn’t Go Better

    FROM the EDGES Why Things Didn’t Go Better Pastor Calvin Cook Focus Jeremiah 29:24-32 There is this unspoken thought, sometimes spoken very loudly with the question, why didn’t things go better. I have asked that question a lot. It seems through life’s ups and downs, mountain tops and valleys, that the question of why didn’t…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • SEEKING PEACE – Jeremiah 29:7

    FROM the EDGES – MORNING DEVOTIONAL Seeking Peace JEREMIAH 29:7 Seeking the Peace that God wants to give – In Bible Study with the Youth yesterday we read the words from Colossians 3:15”Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts ………..” Throughout the evening and into the nighttime awake hours, I kept hearing the…

  • Back to Normal –

    We have used the words or phrase “Getting Back to Normal” over the last couple of years. I have even said it and preached it that we must “get back to normal or what the new normal looks like”.  As I have thought about these words, I am not sure we know what normal is!…