Diligently Seeking Blog

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Seeds of Hope: Sharing the Gospel and Trusting God for the Growth

Seeds of Hope: Sharing the Gospel and Trusting God for the Growth

And He was saying, “The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil; and he goes to bed at night and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts and grows—how, he himself does not know….It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is...

Acoustics of the Soul: Building Lives that Spread God’s Goodness

Acoustics of the Soul: Building Lives that Spread God’s Goodness

You also became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation with the joy of the Holy Spirit, so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. For the word of the Lord has sounded forth from you, not only...

Stop, Look, and Listen: Finding God in Nature

Stop, Look, and Listen: Finding God in Nature

The heavens are telling of the glory of God; and their expanse is declaring the work of His hands. Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. —Psalm 19:1-2 If I had to pick a thesis statement for my writing as a whole, it would be that God is...

Stop, Look, and Listen: Finding God in Our Relationships

Stop, Look, and Listen: Finding God in Our Relationships

Then God said, “ Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. God created man in...

Stop, Look, and Listen: Finding God in Our Work

Stop, Look, and Listen: Finding God in Our Work

Then the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. —Genesis 2:15 It was my fourth year of teaching. The first three years had been difficult, not just because of the learning curve that had only just stopped making my head...

Stop, Look, and Listen: Finding God in the Everyday

Stop, Look, and Listen: Finding God in the Everyday

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. —Romans 1:20 A few years ago, I got the most wonderful surprise...