Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.   Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above [...]

Tonight I watched a storm come in. I had just been spending time with Abba, and I was walking past the window when I saw the clouds growing dark. For a mountain boy such as myself, a storm coming in is a spiritual experience...and especially when that boy hasn't been to the mountains in a while. As the clouds started to pick up speed and lightening started to flare, I stared hard into the clouds and for a minute or two I was able to drown the cars passing by out of my imagination with a thousand memories of the cool breeze and the groaning of creation stirring to let loose its sermon. The sermon being [...]