Morning Briefings

podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/df41d515/do-you-think-good-thoughts-hmmm-no-59-acts Are you a good thinker? Put another way - do you think good thoughts? The craziness of life can sometimes make us feel like our heads are in a vice--and some days the clamp is getting tighter and tighter. And if we are not careful, our thoughts take us to deep mine shafts where we are not meant to be! Truth: many of us are held captive by our thinking. Fact is, we have

podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/1c010242/do-you-hear-what-i-hear-not-just-a-song-no-58-acts Does God talk? If so, are you hearing from him? Growing up in church, I was not taught that God talks. Actually, I was taught quite the opposite--God had said everything he wanted to say and it was captured in the pages of Scripture. Period. Case closed… canon closed. And by the way, if someone claimed to hear that God talked to them, they were crazy or a he

podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/276e253e/strength-comes-from-truth-no-57-acts Because we all need strength ... Veteran fighter pilot, E. Royce Williams, a retired Navy captain who shot down four Soviet MiG-15 jets in a classified 1952 operation was awarded the nation’s highest military decoration near the end of President Trump's speech to Congress on Tuesday. “Royce was in the dogfight of a lifetime,” the president said of Williams’ heroics. “His sq

podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/1db2c466/your-mission-should-you-choose-to-accept-it-no-56-acts Greetings, fellow travelers! As though marching to the beat of a drum, Paul is heading toward the culmination of all he had lived for. His intention and intensity are palpable as he heeds the call of the Holy Spirit in his life, anxious to get to Jerusalem. From town to town, Paul moves confidently, as we look to Acts chapter 20: https://www.biblegateway.com/p

podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/26483601/because-breakthrough-is-possible-this-lent Not so fast. Before we follow Paul's next steps toward Jerusalem, we do well to consider where we are . . . on the calendar. A few days ago, February 18, Christians around the world entered into the season of Lent, a time to humbly prepare our hearts for Jesus' arrival into Jerusalem, and all that happened there--his betrayal, arrest, crucifixion and Resurrection. One of t

podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/20f98b4d/the-olympics-prostitutes-a-mob-and-a-supreme-god-no-55-acts Good Day. Last night I was watching the Olympics, specifically the snowboarding competition . . . man, oh man, it is nothing short of amazing what the well-trained human body can do! Isn't it crazy to consider that the Olympic games began before Christ was born? Even in Ephesus, where the Word of God was taking hold, there were also athletic contests in th

podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/e824311e/travel-texas-and-truth-a-witch Just in case you missed it, the other day I threw down the gauntlet. I suggested carrying your Bible with you occasionally - maybe placing it on the treadmill rack at the gym, or somewhere near you, visible to passers by at your favorite coffee shop or perhaps on your airplane tray table. Here's my little weekend vignette on the matter. On Friday, I boarded a westbound airplane for L

podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/2d85bf5c/in-the-valley-of-good-and-evil-no-54-acts This is a little longer than normal, but it kinda' had to be... In the Spring of 2000, I picked up a book that captivated me, and singlehandedly changed my life. Set in the hood in the borough of Brooklyn, New York, the author wrote about people and lifestyles I had not encountered (yet)--those heavily influenced by demonic activity. Heck, I had been raised 'in the church',

podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/1e8bce05/when-somethings-missing-inside-no53-acts It would be interesting to be God, don't you think? Imagine having a view of all the beings He created-- humans, in particular, crafted in His very likeness... 1 equipped with a creative mind, a heart meant to love and be loved, and a soul to be forever one with Him. And imagine with me, that God looks down, and says, 'Do you see me? Why, look at the skies above!' 'Do you h

podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/3f09ed22/i-hope-it-calls-your-name-no52-acts What calls your name or beckons you? 'Caramel chocolate chip ice cream in your freezer? Yes! Great waves to surf? The Sunday crossword puzzle, your garden, TikTok, that pile of laundry that needs to be folded, the Netflix show you have been binge watching or the gym? I submit to you that if you truly understood its value to your heart and mind, it would be your beautiful Bib

podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/cf588e42/double-down-on-this-no-51-acts Somewhere in the middle of the airplane I sat, winging my way west to Southern California ... right after take off, I got out my pink Filament Bible 1 and started reading further in Acts, when I noticed the guy across the aisle was reading his Bible too . What?! That was a first on an airplane...and I liked it. hmmm... And then, from the smiling part of my brain, I recall one mor