by Bruce Martin | Jul 19, 2023 | Blog, Word for the Week |
“Do you want to get well?” Jesus in John 5:6 Those words rang in my ear, even haunted me, throughout a 3-minute devotional one of the participants in my small group was sharing at the Speak Up Conference. My job was to mentor the group and do a critique of... 
by Bruce Martin | Jan 1, 2023 | Blog, Word for the Week |
I love the next thing. I love beginnings. I’m simply wired for them. But as we close out 2022, I’m thinking about endings. We just finished moving out of our house in Big Cove that we’d lived in for 16 years. It’s kind of surreal and not a little sad. But... 
by Bruce Martin | Jan 11, 2022 | Uncategorized, Word for the Week |
Re. That’s it. That’s my word for 2022. No, not the musical note. And no, not the abbreviated version of regarding. Just Re. It means “once more, afresh, anew.” In short, again. There’s a lot to this little word. I couldn’t settle in on just one of the possible... 
by Bruce Martin | Dec 30, 2020 | Blog, Hope |
What a year, right? For me, it’s been going out with a bang…literally. Lots of banging actually. I spent Christmas Eve eve under an MRI machine having brain scans done. I’d had (what I thought was) a severe sinus headache for about 10 days, but it wasn’t getting... 
by Bruce Martin | May 19, 2020 | Blog, Hope, Word for the Week |
“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.” (Isaiah 43:18-19, NIV) I went to the wilderness this past weekend with a few...