Tabor: The day you overcome

At Mount Tabor, God told Deborah and Barak, “This is the day I will give you victory over your oppressors.” The same Lord gives us strength to overcome, too!

A bald eagle soars toward the sun's dazzling light.
I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.

Discovering the purpose of the wilderness

Wilderness strips life bare. It knocks all the supports out from under us. There, we may hear God say, “I have carried you on eagles’ wings to bring you to myself.”

The peak of Mount Sinai, surrounded by other brown mountain peaks, and seen in a shaft of sunlight that has broken through dark clouds
Sunlight on Mount Sinai

When God reveals his covenant name

When God reveals his covenant name, he invites us to leave that place where we think we know all about him – and to press on to know him.

Shaft of sunlight on a yard bordered by towering trees
These lithe, towering trees would dance wildly in the wind.

Cradled or caught?

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What I learned from a bent tree - cradled, or caught, by another tree.

Faded black-and-white of four Union soldiers from the Seventy-Seventh Pennsylvania regiment (with one on horseback), outside Shiloh Church at the time of the battle
“In the very center of this dreadful contest, so destructive to life and limb, stood this humble, little log-church, from which the great battle of Shiloh took its name.”

Shiloh

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“In the very center of this dreadful contest, so destructive to life and limb, stood this humble, little log-church, from which the great battle of Shiloh took its name.” April…

Our time and season to fight back

Prayer from Qualities of a Spiritual Warrior Father, thank you that this is our time and season to fight back – to war against a religious spirit that has bound…