Like always, every few years I get weird and antsy about how the music and non-music compartments of my life mesh and collide. I recently changed my blog from “Sheer Drapes on My Windows” to ..”Joni’s Blog” as I prepared to do something different. And here it has begun. I am re-vamping again and letting [...]
A Walk through Hebrews 9 and 10. Your guilt was removed 1 time. Believe it. (Hebrews 9:22) “The law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, because without the shedding of blood there’s no forgiveness… (26) Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world but now he has [...]
So so so simple, but so so so true. Every little word. ********************* From A Wommack NOW, OR THEN? John 1:16, “And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.” JOHN 1:1-18 The Christian life is not like an insurance policy that only pays off when we [...]
Wherever you’ve been has a lot to do with where you’re going. Wherever you are on the continuum determines where you are as you move towards the other side. So yes, we bear with one another at our level of maturity–which is easier said than done. Having grown up with nice things and nice clothes, [...]
Wisdom “builds” the house–gets it up & holding together. Real, deep understanding “establishes” it–so that it can’t be blown down by the first storm.And knowledge “fills” the rooms with good things. Proverbs 24:3-6 [You have everything you need ..... through the knowledge of Him {Jesus, and what his death purchased} 2 Peter 1:3]. If you [...]
Our minds have been made up to say many things contrary to the Word of God. “Well, you never know.”“Well, we’ll see.”“I hope so.” “We can only pray and leave it in God’s hands.”“We can only hope for the best.”“That would be great, wouldn’t it.” These statements are very much in contrast to the scriptures [...]
This is the “What’s my part-what’s god’s part debate” that lands in the center between the opposing doctrines of “God moves when he wants to” and “God moves when you earn it.” “Faith appropriates what Grace has already provided.If God hasn’t already moved and provided something, your faith isn’t going to do anything.” Andrew Wommack [...]
When I was in college, I’d been saving up for eight months to have $500 to make a demo–taking the advice of a mentor. I could only save $50 a month, but I did. Until that time, my life had been pretty predictable. After four months of saving, I got a $200 speeding ticket which [...]
So God is interested in changing you? in developing you? in making you holy?He sends trials to make you more humble? more sweet-hearted? more genuine?So God’s focus is your heart? He’s interested in your heart?Well, ok, he KNOWS and SEES our motives, but is that His goal? to purify our motives? So that we can [...]
Gwyneth Paltrow’s Blog, she writes: “As a woman who was raised in a society where it is implied that women should be agreeable and amenable, where speaking up for yourself can label you ‘difficult’, I personally have found it difficult to do that very thing. Why is it important to have personal boundaries and make [...]
I was in the sixth grade probably, and it was my second early morning pancake breakfast to hear of during a kind of revival week at the Methodist church where I was went until high school. Of course, I thought this early morning pancake type deal was BOOORRRINGG! I didn’t go the first year with [...]
Tom and Sherry Green’s “Evidence of Love”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3vUvw-8_0Y Were you there on that fateful day when the deed was done.They put to death an innocent man instead of the guilty one.The grave is empty where He was laid. No body left to prove the case.But the son of God was crucified and risen in my place. [...]
If an adversary/evil one/devourer/satan is not part of your theology, then everything is God’s fault. Ephesians 6. Yeah, we’ve read it, but do we believe it and embrace the responsibility of the picture that it paints? 10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of [...]
When will I stop thinking, “Maybe when I’m….. God will…..”or“Maybe if I ….. God will…..”or“Maybe if I could just …. God would….”or“I bet when we…. God will…..” When I realize that Christ sat down and that His redemptive work is finished, I am brought to 2 wonderful new pathways that lead me to be un-stuck! [...]
Working on the songs.… new post & pics on my music website
Wow, what a trip. 2 weeks in Texas with my family and my children. (Zach stayed behind in Tennessee.) I got to accomplish 2 huge things, but mostly I got to reconnect with that old blank scenery, that huge empty sky canvas that matches my mind. I got some time and space in my dad’s [...]
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