WIIFM* Everywhere I look, there are Help Wanted signs. It seems that anyone who wants to work could find a job. It may be temporary until something you really want is available, but by not working, you’re skills are getting rusty, technology is passing you by, and aside from your leaky bank account shrinking, you’re placing yourself in the way […]

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 […]