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 […]
Start Small…but Start A journey of any distance begins with the first step. If we’re going to accomplish anything, go anywhere, we need to take that first step. And we have to know where we’re going. You know, set a goal. Olympic athlete wannabes don’t wake up one morning and decide they’re going to try out for the games. Years […]