Fearless Soul – Jackson Community Church

PEACE Daily Devotional: Advent 2 – Dec 11

Cultivate peace each day this week. December 11: Peace in our Hearts Scripture: Philippians 4:6-7 — Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds […]

DAILY DEVOTIONAL on Hope: Dec 4 – Active Hope

December 4: Active Hope Scripture: Hebrews 6:19-20 –– We have this hope, a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters the inner shrine behind the curtain where Jesus, a forerunner on our behalf, has entered … Meditation: We are partners in the work of cultivating human hope, yet God goes before […]

WISDOM Reflections – Theme from last week’s Proverbs text

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. — Reinhold Niebuhr SONGS about WISDOM: Sophia Sing to Me – Song about Lady Wisdom by Andy Rogers (folk): https://youtu.be/e-n8eNy_2Ww Only Love by Jordan Smith, covered by Fearless […]

Asking, seeking, knocking … beyond binaries and either/or scenarios … the door, the gate, the Way, the narrow path is love. Themes from Matthew 7.

This is why there are times when the most instructive question to bring to the text is not “what does it say?” but “what am I looking for?” I suspect Jesus knew this when he said, “ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be […]

Reflections on the ‘log & speck’ or ‘beam & mote’ – judging & non-judging. Themes from Matthew 7 out of the Sermon on the Mount. Humor through images.

Contain all human faces in your own without any judgment of them — Rumi It is much more difficult to judge yourself than it is to judge others. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery What is love? Love is the absence of judgment. — Dalai Lama To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly […]