Lighthouse Keeper

Keeping the lights on to guide you home

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The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

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  • God gives the increase

    I planted, Apollos watered, but God [all the while] was causing the growth.( 1 Corinthians 3:6  AMP) I thought I’d give you an update on the rose garden bed that I put back to lawn grass.  I wrote a little post about sowing and reaping and yes, I sowed very generously.  I used this stuff called…

  • Lydia wasn’t a “trad wife”

    One of those listening was a woman from the city of Thyatira named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth. She was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message.  When she and the members of her household were baptized, she invited us to her home. “If you consider me…

  • Food, clothing, and contentment

    Her profits will be put to the use of God-Aware, God-Serving-People, providing plenty of food and the best of clothing. (Isaiah 23:17-18 MSG) I came across the Isaiah 23 verse the other day and it reminded me of the verse in Timothy: “But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that”…

  • The courage to be ordinary

    Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Jesus with her sons and knelt down to make a request of Him. “What do you want?” He inquired. She answered, “Declare that in Your kingdom one of these two sons of mine may sit at Your right hand, and the other at Your left.” “You do…

  • Loyal Mordecai

    I love it when a character really comes to life for you and this trip through the Book of Esther, it had to be Mordecai.  I’ve been thinking about non-traditional relationships and how the modern church elevates the traditional and the nuclear family even though there are so many of us living and worshiping in…

  • The awakening

    The word of the Lord came to me: “What do you see, Jeremiah?” “I see the branch of an almond tree,” I replied. The Lord said to me, “You have seen correctly, for I am watching to see that my word is fulfilled.” (Jeremiah 1:11-13). I was admiring a blossom tree in my neighbourhood yesterday.  I thought it must have…

  • The Master of time

    Then Daniel praised the God of heaven 20 and said: “Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever;    wisdom and power are his. 21 He changes times and seasons;    he deposes kings and raises up others.He gives wisdom to the wise    and knowledge to the discerning. 22 He reveals…

  • Dealing with discouragement

    4 Then the peoples around them set out to discourage the people of Judah and make them afraid to go on building.[5 They bribed officials to work against them and frustrate their plans during the entire reign of Cyrus king of Persia and down to the reign of Darius king of Persia. 6 At the…

  • The truth of Thomas

    Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.” Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!” (John 20:24-29) The main (perhaps the only) reason I believe in the person of Jesus as God in flesh (John…

  • What is my God assignment?

     “Go at once to Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have directed a widow there to supply you with food.” So he went to Zarephath. When he came to the town gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. (1 Kings 17:7-16). If you’re like me, you may have spent a lot…