Thoughts from the Edges

Tag: prayer

  • Morning Devotions – From the Edges – Where is God?

    Morning Devotions – From the Edges Pastor Calvin Cook 3/6/2024 LENT – Day 19 – WHERE IS GOD Scripture focus – Proverbs 1:22-27 “How long will you who are simple love your simple ways?  How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge? Repent at my rebuke! Then I will pour out my…

  • Feeling Defeated – Morning Devotion From the Edges –

    FROM the EDGES – Morning DevotionsPastor Calvin Cook 3-5-2023LENT – DAY 18 – FEELING DEFEATEDScripture focus – Luke 15:20 (NIV) – “So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son,…

  • From the Edges – Morning Devotional – Abundance

    From the Edges – Morning Devotional Lent – Day 8 – February 22, 2024 Abundance Scripture focus – 2 Corinthians 9:6-15 How are you living your life? As one who receives or as one who gives. Many times, in relationship and friendship bonds are formed based on what one can do for another. This is…

  • From the Edges – Being Lost is Not Bad.

    From the Edges – Morning Devotions LENT – Day 6 – Being Lost is Not Bad Pastor Calvin Cook Scripture focus – Deuteronomy 8: 6-7  “Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him. 7 For the Lord your God is bringing you into…

  • From the Edges – Preparing for Worship Come and Receive, Go and Tell.

    As we prepare for Worship this weekend. LENT – DAY 4 – WORSHIP –COME and RECEIVE – GO and TELLPastor Calvin Cook Though I truly believe that Worship is the time of acknowledging the presence of God in our lives and setting aside self so that we can offer God with our everything. Our Praises,…

  • From the Edges – Lent Begins – What are you sacrificing?

    Ash Wednesday – Scripture focus –  Hosea 12:6&7 “So the Lord God Almighty shall be his memorial. You shall return to your God; Therefore, observe mercy and judgement, and draw near to your God continually.” Lent can simply be described as a season – “to return God”. I know there are those who will say…

  • From the Edges I Could have just moved on !

    Morning Devotions – From the EdgesPastor CalvinI Could Have Just Moved On –Today, I got out of sync, away from normal practices and discipline. I had a sleepless night. Not for any reason other than maybe not putting my mind to rest. The first couple of hours were OK but by 1AM I was walking…

  • 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…

  • 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!…