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7 09, 2020

September 7: Love You Can’t Shake

2020-09-08T07:41:56-05:00September 7th, 2020|All blogs, Daily Devotionals|0 Comments

Lynzey Guidry, Youth Director–Gethsemane Psalm 139:7-12 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide men and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you; [...]

4 09, 2020

Better Together (refresher)

2020-09-04T10:45:55-05:00September 4th, 2020|All blogs, Inside-Out with Dr. Tom Pace|0 Comments

God, I watch on TV the violence on the streets of some of our cities. Property destroyed. Rocks and bottles thrown. Guns are brandished, and people even killed. I know that there are some people who live in fear of violence in their neighborhoods every day, and I can’t imagine what that must be like. Your son came as the Prince of Peace, and it is by his grace and the power of the Holy Spirit that real peace can come. As his people, his body in the world, I pray that somehow, we might “do the things that make for peace.” (Romans [...]

4 09, 2020

September 4: Shocking Faithfulness

2020-09-04T09:09:46-05:00September 4th, 2020|All blogs, Daily Devotionals|0 Comments

Louise and Robert McEvoy Hosea 3:1-3 The Lord said to me, “Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.” 2 So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and about a homer and a lethek of barley. 3Then I told her, “You are to live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any man, and I will behave the same [...]

3 09, 2020

September 3: The Middle

2020-09-04T09:03:20-05:00September 3rd, 2020|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Rachel Fisher, Children’s Ministries Communications Specialist Revelation 22:13 (NIV) I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. Reflection: When asked the question, “What is your favorite type of movie?” I will likely answer with “The sequel.” Not the introduction or the final installment, but the entertainment in between the origin story and grand finale. Most interesting monologue in Hamlet? The opening scene of Act III. Best Star Wars movie? The Empire Strikes Back. Favorite episodes of The Office? Anything in season two. I love the middle. I love the growth [...]

2 09, 2020

September 2: God is Holy

2020-09-02T08:35:07-05:00September 2nd, 2020|All blogs, Daily Devotionals|0 Comments

Joseph Patty - Associate Director of Student Ministries, High School, Curriculum, and Student Leadership Isaiah 6 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying.  And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.”At the sound of their voices the doorposts [...]

1 09, 2020

God is Good by Jill Almaguer

2020-09-01T13:16:36-05:00September 1st, 2020|75, All blogs|0 Comments

My husband and I bought my childhood home in Bellaire from my Dad after Mom died and he decided to stay in assisted living. I had grown up at Bellaire Methodist and intended to go back there when we moved to Bellaire and I began working at Texas Heart Institute. At that time I found out that our THI VP’s daughter, Katy, was the assistant choir director at St Luke’s so we went to a service there. The chancel choir was packed in like sardines in the old Sanctuary choir loft and Dr. Pace preached a sermon that included an [...]

1 09, 2020

September 1: Deliver Us

2020-09-01T08:22:36-05:00September 1st, 2020|All blogs, Daily Devotionals|0 Comments

Rev. Michelle Manuel, Associate Director of Adult Ministries & Shelby Olive, Communications Associate Exodus 20:2-3 2 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; 3 you shall have no other gods before me. Reflection: Who is God? What a huge question. When we ask this question and read the Bible with this in mind we come up with a pretty substantial list. God is holy. God is a healer. God is a bringer of salvation. God is a creator. God is just. God is a liberator. [...]

31 08, 2020

August 31: Lean on God

2020-08-31T09:18:23-05:00August 31st, 2020|All blogs, Daily Devotionals|0 Comments

Vicki Keiser, member since 1985, Church Council, Stephen’s Ministry Psalm 55:22 Give your burdens to the Lord, and he will take care of you. John 14:27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. Reflection: In the summer of 2012, I had the opportunity and finally made the commitment to read the entire Bible in 90 days. It was a big lift while working full time and having family commitments, but this paved the way [...]

28 08, 2020

Take It All In!

2020-08-28T10:55:15-05:00August 28th, 2020|All blogs, Inside-Out with Dr. Tom Pace|0 Comments

I’ll be honest, God (as if I could ever fool you). I am relieved hurricane Laura did not hit Houston directly. I found myself saying, “thankfully, it turned North toward Port Arthur and Lake Charles.” I heard someone say, “it is answered prayer.” What kind of prayer is that? You tell us in your Scripture that when one of us suffers, we all suffer. You teach us that our lives as human beings and as followers of your son are inextricably linked together, that we are a part of one another. And we see our brothers and sisters suffering from devastating challenges [...]

28 08, 2020

August 28: Drawing Stars

2020-08-28T09:44:21-05:00August 28th, 2020|All blogs, Daily Devotionals|0 Comments

Linda Burch, Member of St. Luke’s since 1972, Good Will Class Ephesians 4:31-32 (NIV) 31 Get rid of all bitterness, rage, and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. 32Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as Christ in God forgave you. Reflection: Stop! Get a pen or pencil. Draw a five-pointed star. Starting at the top, number the points as you move clockwise around the star you have just drawn. My sequence for star drawing is 4-1-3-5-2-4. What is yours?  This exercise appeared in my Facebook feed a few weeks ago. [...]

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