Thoughts from the Edges

Tag: jesus

  • Saturday Morning Preparing our Hearts for Worship – From the Edges.

    Preparing our hearts for Worship WORSHIP IS Scripture focus – Proverbs 2:1-11 Through the night I kept hearing Proverbs 2. I thought it strange and questioned the Lord “But don’t you know today is the day my devotion centers around preparing for Worship. Again, I heard “Proverbs 2”. “OK Lord” I responded, “I’ll think about…

  • 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…

  • 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 – 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…

  • 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!…