Yesterday Isn’t, Today Is, Tomorrow…Maybe Twenty-four was filled with challenges in many ways for many people. We saw the consequences of hatred and anger in senseless violence as it spread its tentacles across our country and world into places that had been relatively peaceful and calm. Racism and anti-Semitism reared its ugliness across college campuses and other venues here and […]
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions In our last post, we talked about decisions, dreams, and discipline. Today, I want to single out decisions and I’m going to assume that most who are reading this are fellow pilgrims on our way to “a better country” (Heb. 11:16). May I offer congratulations on your decision but also include a friendly reminder? Decision-making doesn’t automatically […]
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 […]