Christ in the Crisis What is a crisis? Where do they come from? Why me? Crises come in all shapes and sizes, from a broken nail to the sudden death of a loved one. From the inane to heart-attack serious. Each person has their own definition of what constitutes a crisis for them. And we can’t judge their rationale, their […]
Victim or Victor The year is gone. The time has come to put it in the rearview and move on. As we look ahead to 2023, we have a choice to make. We can accept the mantle of victim and wallow in self-pity and blame if we’ve experienced a not-what-we-hoped-for year. Or we can thumb our collective noses at the […]
Scripture Sandwich I’m always glad when my daily Bible reading brings me to Romans 8. I wrote about it two years ago in Good News Monday. I’ve probably been through it three or four times since. Today I had a new thought while reading. Isn’t it great that God’s word never gets stale? You’ve heard of “feeding on the word” […]
God’s Will Anybody ever ask you, “How do I know God’s will?” There are two possibilities why they would ask. The first is that they don’t spend time in God’s word and haven’t been exposed to it. I was reading in Zechariah this morning and came across a section in chapter 8 that jumped off the page because it couldn’t […]
No Good Thing… With this title, there are a lot of ways the post could go. It could be a summary of my life’s work. It could be a description of our current political and world climate. Or it could be what it is: the opening of a great promise from Psalms. The rest of the verse says, “does God […]
Jewels or Junk? “Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each man’s work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire and the fire itself will test the quality of each man’s work” (I Cor. 3:13,14). Life is filled with choices. Simple […]