Decisions, Dreams, and Discipline As we make the journey from youthful innocence to adulthood, we learn to make decisions. If we don’t, others will make them for us. Remember the discussions with your parents in which you argued that you were old enough to make your own decisions? When did they finally agree? Were there specific benchmarks along the way? […]
Patience or Peace “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” (Phil. 4:6,7) Many of you reading this are probably Type-A personalities. Me too. Here is another of […]
Be That Man “I searched for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before Me for the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found no one” (Ezek. 22:30). You can read the litany of charges God had against His people in the 31 verses of Ezekiel 22. Ezekiel […]
Give it up “Give and it will be given to you…pressed down, shaken together and running over” (Luke 6:38a). We’re in the run-up to a presidential election. Rarely does a day go by that I don’t get one or more requests for support—read money—for this candidate or that proposition. Many of these are presented as surveys telling me how important […]
God Said…So What? Do you ever feel like, “so what”? God said, “let there be light, and there was.” So what? God said, “it’s gonna rain for 40 days”, and it did. So what? God said, “It is finished”. Do you see a pattern here? God says something—and something happens. We talk about superpowers different from comic book characters, such […]
Talk is Cheap It’s thirty-eight days before one of the most disrespectful elections I can remember, and we are at the height of political rhetoric. Both sides seem to think bashing the opponent is more effective than civil discourse about the issues they would be elected to address. Badgering, bullying, and backbiting seem to be the primary criteria for speech […]