Here is a sneak peek at a new design launching soon!
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Morning Prayer
From Every Moment Holy - A Liturgy For The Ritual Of Morning Coffee
Feet Like Deer - Design to come
Last Sunday I was listening to a sermon on Habakkuk from Five Oaks Church and …. Strike! Inspiration. So I sketched a little thought I had on a piece of paper and posted about it.
I just put it off to the side because as a smart business woman with Covid-19 we are not exactly in a spot financially to be purchasing more apparel, especially when we are waiting to launch a few new styles yet.
But as you can imagine there is a but… but this tee design kept creeping into my tiny little brain cells whispering, “order me, order me”. So I put the logical business moves aside and we went ahead and ordered.
The order is still 3 weeks out but we have big plans for it, we think you guys and gals are going to love them. They are slightly different from our past styles mainly because we keep it simple with script. But here we have an image. And when I say them, it is because we ordered two colors of tees. One more masculine and the other feminine.
So stay tuned. And watch the sermon here. Habakkuk 3:19 is referenced towards the end.
“The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights.”
Want to hear something crazy? I wrote about this verse back in 2015. What?! Yep. Sure did. You can find it here.
Colossians 1:15-20 Explained
It’s always fun to dive into a new passage. Especially one like Colossians 1:15-20. This passage speaks to Jesus over all. Most scholars believe (yet they can’t prove) this passage comes from a poem or hymn in the early church that describes what Christians believed about Jesus. That Jesus is God.
There are so many good snippets and reminders for us. Like Jesus is the image of God. The word image in Greek is eikon which means the likeness of manifestion. Meaning God is fully revealed in Jesus.
We might not think too much of this but remember the writer Paul is trying to prove that Jesus is not just a man, or a lesser image of God, or just another god, he IS God.
Jesus is also the firstborn. We read a lot about the Firstborn in scripture. Here Paul refers to Jesus as the firstborn in reference to time and of rank. Meaning Jesus is supreme over all. He is before all created things. He then goes onto speak of the rulers and authorities of the earth and reminds us that Jesus created them all and they all ultimately answer to Him. He is what holds all things together. He is the sustainer of all creation.
Then the passage wants to drive home that God’s fullness dwells in Jesus. Essentially Jesus is truly God. The fullness of God has been put into Jesus. Not a church, priesthood or sacrament, but Jesus. He is the distribution point as one commentator wrote. Those who want more of God and all that he is can find it in Jesus.
Then the passage ends with one amazing point - the work of the cross. Jesus reconciles, or atoned all by making peace in the cross. This is a great reminder that we don’t make peace with God. We can’t. But Jesus can. And he did so 2000 years ago on that old rugged cross.
Rest in Him who is victorious over all.
Exodus 19 - Trumpet Sound
I was reading in Exodus 19 and all about the expressions of God’s presence and came across something totally knew to me. This is the passage where Moses goes up to Mount Sinai to speak with God and God comes down on the mountain in a powerful and terrifying presence. There is so much in this passage, but read the verse below and see if anything stands out. Hint, the title of this post ;)
Read Exodus 19:16
“Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the trumpet was very loud, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled.”
What Israel saw and felt in the thunder, lightning, clouds, smoke, and earthquake was terrifying! Can you imagine all of that happening all at once? All the while while they are at the foot of the mountain and their leader (Moses) is in the midst of it all.
But these are all just natural phenomenons. It’s the sound of the trumpet that would cause trembling. Why? Because for the first time I realized when reading that this trumpet didn’t come from camp, it came from heaven itself!
The heavens sounded those trumpets to announce His presence.
No wonder they were trembling.
”Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.”
