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  • Don’t Make Me Tug You
    Sunday, August 24th, 2025     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

    “I hear the Lord saying, “I will stay close to you, instructing and guiding you along the pathway for your life. I will advise you along the way and lead you forth with my eyes as your guide. So don’t make it difficult; don’t be stubborn when I take you where you’ve not been before. Don’t make me tug you and pull you along. Just come with me!”” Psalms 32:8-9 TPT As we face a… Read More

  • Thoughts from the Mountain: The Way to Heaven
    Sunday, August 17th, 2025     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

    “Do not let your hearts be distressed. You believe in God; believe also in me. There are many dwelling places in my Father’s house. Otherwise, I would have told you, because I am going away to make ready a place for you. And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will come again and take you to be with me, so that where I am you may be too. And you… Read More

  • Thoughts from the Mountain: Walking Together is Learning
    Sunday, August 10th, 2025     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

    Jesus himself approached and began to accompany them (but their eyes were kept from recognizing him). Then he said to them, “What are these matters you are discussing so intently as you walk along?”  They said to each other, “Didn’t our hearts burn within us while he was speaking with us on the road, while he was explaining the scriptures to us?” Luke 24:15, 32 Sweat trickled down my back like a pesky fly caught… Read More

  • Thoughts from the Mountain: Humility
    Sunday, July 27th, 2025     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

    for one who consistently chooses to go lower still.   Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Ephesians 4:2 As our small hiking group approached a fork in the rocky mountain path, two of us were distracted, quibbling about mean matters of life. The quiet voice of our leader interrupted the chatter. Surveying ahead, I think we need to go lower. It was then that we noticed the danger… Read More

  • Pride is so Exhausting
    Sunday, July 20th, 2025     Audrey Frank     2 Comments

    "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke on you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy to bear, and my load is not hard to carry."  Jesus, in Matthew 11:28-30 Jesus' famous words in Matthew 11 have beckoned to me during many a season of… Read More

  • Blind Side
    Sunday, July 13th, 2025     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

    Who can tell how often he offends? O cleanse me from my secret faults. Keep your servant also from presumptuous sins, lest they get the dominion over me; so shall I be undefiled, and innocent of great offense. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be always acceptable in your sight, O Lᴏʀᴅ, my rock and my redeemer.   Psalm 19:12-14, The New Coverdale Psalter, from the Book of Common… Read More

  • The Silence of God
    Sunday, July 6th, 2025     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

    I just finished Shûsaku Endô’s terribly beautiful book, Silence, about two missionaries who go into 17th century Japan to find their beloved mentor, who is reported to have apostatized under unbearable persecution. It was assumed, even by Endô’s publishers, that Silence was about the silence of God. Yet, for the rest of Endô’s life as he lectured about the book, he stated, “I did not write a book about the silence of God, I wrote… Read More

  • Turbine
    Sunday, June 15th, 2025     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

    Il vostro cuore non sia turbato; credete in Dio, credete anche in me! Giovanni 14:1   Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. John 14:1, NIV I love the way languages deepen my understanding of the Word of God.  To English speakers, the Italian word turbato may sound familiar. It springs from the Latin root turbinem, and from it we derive English words such as turmoil, disturb,… Read More

  • Examine Me
    Sunday, June 1st, 2025     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

    Examine me, O LORD, and test me. Evaluate my inner thoughts and motives. Psalm 26:2 Wow! Both the word examine and the word evaluate are words used in refining and purifying metals.  בָּחַן ḇâḥan, examine, means to investigate, prove, examine, test, try (of gold, persons, the heart, man of God); to make a trial.   צָרַף ṣârap̱, evaluate, means to purge away, pure, melt, founder, goldsmith, refine, fuse. To cast.To test (and prove true). Olive… Read More

  • Slave Girl
    Sunday, May 25th, 2025     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

      Now as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave girl met us who had a spirit that enabled her to foretell the future by supernatural means. She brought her owners a great profit by fortune-telling. She followed behind Paul and us and kept crying out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation.” She continued to do this for many days.… Read More