Star for the Journey

Holy Spirit

  • Where the Small Things Decide

    Scripture Focus: Zechariah 4:10 “Who hath despised the day of small things?” We often picture spiritual growth as a series of major, mountaintop decisions—the big turning points, the dramatic testimonies, the “before and after” moments we love to retell. But Scripture repeatedly pulls our attention back to the subtle places, the hidden creases of the…

  • Thanksgiving and the Sacrifice of Gratitude

    If you look around this time of year, it almost feels like Thanksgiving is getting smaller. Store shelves leap from skeletons to snowmen, from cobwebs to candy canes, and somewhere in the middle there’s this quiet little day about gratitude that can easily get squeezed out. No costumes, no glittering lights, no marketing mascot to…

  • Ask for Rain in the Time of the Latter Rain

    Scripture Focus: Zechariah 10:1 “Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field”. “Latter rain” in Scripture grows out of the Bible’s agricultural metaphor of “early” and “latter” rains—the first to…

  • Keeping the Line to Headquarters Open

    Scripture Focus: Luke 18:1

  • Pentecost and the Gift of Utterance

    Meditations on Acts 2